{"id":3440,"date":"2010-08-20T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2023-03-23T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:25:12","slug":"giant-rats-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3440","title":{"rendered":"Giant Rats: II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EDIT:<\/strong> As well as the Bradford Rat<\/a> , one has turned up in County Durham<\/a> as of April 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Sun can never leave a new story alone. Only a day after the Giant Rat from Bradford<\/a>, we now have one in Lincoln<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to keep the story alive, The Sun skirts neatly around the issue over whether or not it is a giant NATIVE rat or some foreign or escaped species. It carefully includes a link to another – and totally unrelated – story<\/a> which would allow lesser minds to conclude that the EU is trying to cause Britain to be overrun with these “Giant Rats”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s face it: unless this is actually a huge native rat, it is virtually a non-story. So The Sun has to keep it on the boil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to be outdone, the Daily Mail is now on the case with its own take on the Lincoln animal<\/a>. Its headline trumpets: “‘Beast of Bradford’ giant rats found in Lincoln factory… How many monsters are out there?” They’ll be calling in Nick Pope next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both newspapers are falling over themselves to interview “shocked, horrified, and terrified” locals – typically old ladies and single mothers of six. Oh, and the bloke who suggests that they might attack a child! They’re even digging up comedians from as far afield as Essex to claim they’ve seen them down there.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It makes you wonder what they’ll report next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best piece of information comes from some guy in Leeds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…Leeds businessman Steve Luya, 55, who lived in Nigeria for years, insisted our picture showed an African Greater Cane Rat that had escaped after being imported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I’m still confused, though. You see, if I ever saw a rat the size of a small car I’d kick up quite a stink. That’s because it isn’t normal. So I cannot understand why it’s taken until now for these people to reveal that they see them almost daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n