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Photo: Giant Rat Found Inside Of A Foot Locker In The Bronx

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via TheGoodfella's Twitter

Yesterday someone Tweeted this photo of a giant monster rat, supposedly discovered at a Foot Locker in the Bronx. You might recognize this guy, as he bears a striking resemblance to the 3-foot-long beast that was stabbed with a pitchfork in Brooklyn last year. That one was believed to be a Gambian pouched rat, and may have been someone's escaped pet. However, it wasn't the first one spotted in that area, and locals believed they were multiplying faster than Gremlins taking a bath.

With this spotting in the Bronx, we think it's safe to say this superbreed of mutant rat is priming for a takeover of the five boroughs (everyone grab some Mountain Dew). Was there anything in that Mayan prophecy about rodents?

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By Jen Carlson in on January 6, 2012 10:55 AM

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  • Camping for these! You already know that f&%#@*# manager has two!
  • Meh, so what. There are a couple hundred giant rats in Washington.
  • Wait no you guys! The other day I saw a picture of a guy that looked like he was holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa! Can you believe it? How did he do it?!
  • James White
    Actually Gambian pouched rats are only about 3 pounds at their maximum length of 3ft. This pretty much negates the silly physics bickering posted above. Just because two objects/animals/whatever have similar sizes doesn't mean that they have similar weights. Condors for instance are 10ft from beak to tail and only weigh 20-30 pounds... It's called density people. Cats are very densely muscled animals, rats are not.

    That said, yes the perspective is off and yes, yuck.
  • [A]
    You can find those in the sewers.. usually with Ghouls.
  • ziggywiggy
    just like many things men hold in their hands it's all about perspective not actual size
  • lareid
    SPLINTER! NOOOOOOOO!
  • ok. the rat is not as big as expected from the perspective. the rat is lying on a ice chipper. see the  handle of it going into the metal? those are 1.5 inches wide, max. so one could infer that this rat is 8 to 9 inches long, not including tail. pretty standard in the way of rats...
  • SOMEONE FINALLY KILLED SPLINTER
  • K P
    Police say man in metal face mask seen running from the scene
  • cetriche
    I'd take an infestation of beagle-size rats over bed bugs any day.
  • if you had to choose....?
  • MaseInYourFace
    So no joke about how the rat was just trying to get the new Jordans?
  • ToastNYC
    see below for many such jokes
  • ToastNYC
    So no jokes about Splinter?
  • TheRealCannibal
    see above for such jokes
  • TheRealCannibal
    see above for such jokes
  • MaseInYourFace
    Wow that's like the one that made it to the papers last year!!  The one that the guy killed with a  freaking pitchfork.  It's a different breed...
  • pendejito
    Where is that guy that was trapping and killing all the feral cats in Bushwick when you need him?

     He should turn his efforts towards these rats. I figure he can use the same traps he was using on the cats on these rats.
  • In 10 years that rat could've been walking on its hind legs and called Master Splinter.
  • it's master splinter ! where are the ninja turtles ??
  • jisnotused
    who now?
  • jisnotused
    Splinter!
  • Guest
    It looks like a possum playing possum.
  • TheOneSaSsY
    This would be a feast of a dinner for an Asian family!
  • Dennis sinneD
    AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGHHHH! Whew. Sorry.
  • EddieBreeg
    Caption : Not even Master Splinter could resist the hype for the new Air Jordans
  • whitecastlerock
    The headline gave me a headache...
  • fredweis
    OMFG. is that a dog-rat hybrid?
  • Sinchy
    Foot Locker guys should have posed the rat in some nice new sneaks for scale
  • ashton13
    that's a tile scraper - which has about an 8" blade, so while that rat might be on the large side, is certainly not freakishly enormous.
  • FundraisingFranny
    http://youtu.be/FUAgtRR5szI
    I totally remember this as a kid.. SHRILL!
  • getDange
    Gothamist, get your facts straight. You are a victim of a hoax. The guy is holding this ice scraper 
    http://www.homedepot.com/Tools...
    The blade width is only 8 inches. The rat is normally sized.
  • TrollyMcTrollington
  • DarkGemini
    WHY DO THINGS LIKE THIS EXIST?!!
  • Jesus Fuck Christ!
  • can someone say "Photoshop"?
  • ToastNYC
    Wesley, what about he R.O.U.S.s?

    Apparently this Foot Locker is located in the Fire Swamp.
  • R.O.U.Ss? I don't think they exist.
  • I'm never eating at Foot Locker again!
  • TheOneSaSsY
    Foot locker can make BIG money selling that thang to the foong yi restaurant!
  • Yeah and they feed it to stupid whites like you who spend 12 bucks for grimey general tso chicken you dumbfuck hahaa
  • TheRealCannibal
    Dude, go back to chat roulette
  • TheOneSaSsY
    I'm not white, you idiot!
  • beatinov
    Maybe you fatass yanks should switch to rat and lose some weight....and by some I mean like 200-300LB each.
  • TheRealCannibal
    haha!   Because orientals eat giant dead rats they find in shoe stores!  and their language sounds all funny like 'ping pong bing bong'

    lolz!
  • too bad you can't lift anything heavier than a ping pong you scrawny little faggot lol. 

    ping pong bing bong translation: I make more money in this country than you so continue eating possum you pedophile redneck
  • TheRealCannibal
    I'm an asian girl.  Ever hear of sarcasm you fucking retard?  Stop posting you're embarrassing yourself.
  • nntogo
    happy endings?
  • "ping pong bing bong", I don't think that is entirely accurate.  Unless.... wait, what dialect is that?
  • TheOneSaSsY
    HOW DARE YOU JUST CALL ME A "PING PONG BING BONG!" I would reply to that, but I'm not allowed to use that kinda language!
    I'm not even makin fun, though. I saw Asian countries fiestin on stuffed rats. I don't lie I dont lie...
  • TheRealCannibal
    they were fisting rats?  Thats even worse than eating them!
  • thats hot!
  • TheRealCannibal
    What this city needs is... GIANT MUTANT CATS
  • Then what would we do when the giant mutant cats start multiplying?
  • ziggywiggy
    call in the crazy cat ladies
  • sk83r
    We had them, but we killed them all because they ate our food.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
  • hotstepper
    or delicious Mutant Rat Tacos, for the locavore set.
  • jibbly
    Do you want me to puke?

    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/...
  • splicernyc
    At least they'd be cute.
  • PlumNYC
    What are you smoking?  Do you see that thing is wider than his hips?????
  • ItchyGomez
    Look at the width of the handle sticking out of the hoe.  "That thing is wider than his arm!"  Now look at the width of your arm.  A normal wooden handle is maybe half that width.  The perspective of the picture is off- the hoe and rat are about half the size they appear.

    queue hoe jokes.
  • TheRealCannibal
    Look at the width of the handle sticking out of the hoe
    Now look at the width of your arm
    Now the hoe..
    Now your arm...
    Now back at the hoe...

    I'm riding on a giant rat
  • PlumNYC
    ...
  • PlumNYC
    I can't handle this.  I have been through a lot, but if these things become as common as regular rats, I might have to kill myself.  This is the beginning of the apocalypse.
  • wonderchimp5
    correction: Ratpocalypse.
  • ktinnyc
    That looks like a normal sized rat but appears much larger because of the perspective. If it was really as big as a cat I doubt the person holding it could do so with just one hand.
  • It's called "leverage".
  • Sinchy
    Most cats weigh under 20 pounds.  If you can't lift 20lbs in one hand you better hit the gym.
  • ktinnyc
    Put 20 pounds on the end of a garden edger or ice scrapper  and then extend the tool out horizontal while you're holding the far opposite end of the tool, He-Man.
  • aktobk
    place your one hand towards the middle of the pole to act as a fulcrum so when the tip (towards you) rises upwards you can place it in your armpit to support it. science whiz.
  • Both of you, put down the mouse.  walk into your bathroom and take shower.  Put on "outside" clothes.  Walk out door of apartment/Nerd cave.  Talk to actual person.. LOSERS
  • 22 likes for this asshat comment? really? This country is being destroyed by an army of intellectual midgets with disdain for learning and science - don't play into their hands.
  • Put down the mouse?  I thought we were talking about a rat?
  • ToastNYC
    put down the mouse? if the mouse was in the air, it wouldn't work at all.  Clearly you are not familiar with how mouses operate.  duh.
  • TheRealCannibal
    STOP EVERYTHING| I just saw an ad for the Air Mouse in the Skymall catalog. The mouse you use in the air.

    Your argument is invalid
  • ToastNYC
    mind=blown
  • mouses?  or meeces?
    (nods accordingly)
  • ToastNYC
    I believe both mice and mouses are accepted for the plural of a computer pointing device.
  • no body
    can't too busy masturbating
  • aktobk
    dirty job but somebodies got to do it.
  • Barricaded_EDP
    I was thinking the same thing
  • cr17
    Are those the new Air Jordons?
  • Relaxasaurus
    lol
  • imadick
    are you the scooby doo gang? how did you know that old man caruthers was using a puppet rat to scare people away so he could hoard the new jordans? 
    and he would have gotten away with it too. . ..
  • cr17
    and he would have gotten away with it too if someone hadn't beaten the shit of him while he was waiting on line to buy them.
  • Damn Skeevers.
  • TheOkayestGeneration
    Have you tried Magnolia's new Sweetrolls? They're the best you can get in this Skeeverhold of a city. That is, until someone steals them.
  • no body
    player.additem sweetroll
  • Until it took an arrow to the...
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