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

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 News on January 6, 2012 10:55 AM

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FL¥nn_Dough

Camping for these! You already know that f&%#@*# manager has two!

Michael

Meh, so what. There are a couple hundred giant rats in Washington.

Emily

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!

Keith Buttke

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...

David Lee

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.

Dennis

if you had to choose....?

morguefile

Its not a giant rat, its a very very small man.

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.