{"id":19010,"date":"2016-02-03T17:36:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19010"},"modified":"2016-02-03T17:36:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:36:37","slug":"ratboy-just-cant-let-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19010","title":{"rendered":"Ratboy Just Can&#8217;t Let It Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a title=\"Rat in Trowbridge pub 'ran up man's leg and stole chip'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-wiltshire-35484085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this story on the BBC website<\/a>. Everything about it is pathetic, but\u2026 well, wait and see.<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/296;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"A pub, a rat, and some chips\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pub_rat_chips.jpg\" alt=\"A pub, a rat, and some chips\" width=\"524\" height=\"296\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It starts off with the title. This is the kind of classy headline you\u2019d get in The Sun, not the BBC: <strong>Rat in Trowbridge pub &#8216;ran up man&#8217;s leg and stole chip&#8217;.<\/strong> Of course, just in case this doesn\u2019t paint the picture clearly enough, the Beeb has provided a helpful picture, depicting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a pub<\/li>\n<li>a rat<\/li>\n<li>some chips<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reece Coombs, the hapless victim in all this, claims the rat was \u201csewer sized\u201d \u2013 so large, in fact, that when it made the alleged contact, poor Mr Coombs reckoned it felt like he\u2019d been \u201ckicked\u201d. He doesn\u2019t mention anything about being left unconscious or requiring emergency surgery or anything, so we must assume that the rat confined itself just to delivering a good kicking.<\/p>\n<p>Wetherspoon, the pub\u2019s operators, evacuated the place immediately and called in pest control. They refunded Mr Coombs (and all the other guests, I would imagine). Naturally, they apologised explaining that fly-tipping in an alley next to the pub may have been responsible. Certainly, I do not live under the impression that Wetherpoon either encourages or subsequently ignores rats on its premises.\u00a0But this isn\u2019t enough for Reece Coombs. Oh dear me no. He hasn\u2019t had his full 15 minutes of fame yet (evidenced by the standard selfie-style photo of him in the article), and is apparently \u201cstill not happy\u201d. He plans to take the matter further.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder where else there is to go with it. The European Court of Human Rights? Amnesty International? Rentokil?<\/p>\n<p>If it was me, it would be over and done with by now. I wouldn\u2019t be craving attention over it, and I probably just wouldn\u2019t go back to the pub involved for a while. I mean, there <strong>are<\/strong> other pubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this story on the BBC website. Everything about it is pathetic, but\u2026 well, wait and see. It starts off with the title. This is the kind of classy headline you\u2019d get in The Sun, not the BBC: Rat in Trowbridge pub &#8216;ran up man&#8217;s leg and stole chip&#8217;. Of course, just in case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}