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When I was a kid about 60 years back my farther came home one night and
said he had been walking home and had he passed a doorway a copper dragged him
in told him "the rats are moving" next thing the st is full of rat's wall to wall all
heading the same way like a river, once they had gone he carried on home and
did not see another rat, he did say that he thought he would have been in some
danger if the cop had not pulled him into the doorway, I have never seen anything
like that but don't doubt he saw what he said but have never heard of it since,
though the cop acting as he did makes me think he had seen it before.
Living in Australia and having lived in the remote isolated hot desert ouback for years I can easily believe that story. However, for us it's not rats, but on occassions, mice plagues and they come out by the droves at night looking for food. With nothing much for them to eat where I lived, they then ended up eating all the books, the paper work and anything which they deemed edible which incidently was a lot of things including plastic, soap etc.
It didn't happen often, but when it did it was horrible and very hard to sleep at night with mice wanting to crawl around all over the place including you while you slept. There was never enough rat traps or poison to buy because it was long all sold out and anyway, the closest shops were over a 3 hour drive there and then another 3 hours plus back.
One night a friend who was visiting and hadn't seen this before had bandges on his leg from bad cuts only to wake up during the night to find the mice had eaten away not only a part of his bandages, but were nibbling at his flesh. The only reason he was so slow to notice was because he was drunk, totally out of it when he went to sleep that night... poor buggar, he was in a pretty bad state though we did tell him that's what happens when you drink with mice... Here's a recent picture of a mice plague...
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