Raking fail. (Is that too old of an joke?)
Home invasion by rats…oh, HELL no!
“Rats are just squirrels with bald tails,” says Paul Gowland of Cobra North East, a pest control company in Sunderland. “One gets all the nice stuff; the other is vilified.”
I get the feeling Mr. Gowland doesn’t know that in the US we call grey squirrels “rats with fuzzy tails.” I’ve spent a lot of time trying to keep squirrels from destroying nice stuff like my front porch and wires under the hood of my car. Wait…do those two species coexist or fight each other? If it’s the latter, maybe we should let them fight and deal with the winner.
Red squirrels are smaller but like grey squirrels on crack.
The neighbour had a bunch with a litter in his attic, and the bunch of them swarming on the side of his house was the opposite of cute. (They can climb brick no problem.)
Well… he’s no Baby Jessica…
Another sign of the End Times, when the film Of Unknown Origin could become a widespread phenomenon. I can imagine a new trailer with this narration (spoilers):
This is Bart. Bart found a rodent problem in his house, and went a bit overboard in trying to get rid of them. Don’t act like Bart, get professional help instead. Your family will thank you for it.
Or as Americans now refer to it : Europe.
After being freed from hiking in Iran, Shane Bauer became an investigative reporter for Mother Jones. He worked as a prison guard for 4 months for a story on for-profit prisons, went undercover with the 3percenters, and more recently has done embedded reporting from Syria.
One map to rule them all: UK’s Ordnance Survey rolls out its Data Hub and the juicy API goodness that lies therein
UK map boffins at the Ordnance Survey (OS) have opened up its shiny new Data Hub, replete with APIs and access to MasterMap data.
Squirrels are experts but rats can work in teams. My money is on the rats, every time.