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You will never leave the toilet seat up again after seeing this.

Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:36 pm
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
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Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:36 pm
Link to video

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City dwellers, check your toilet before you sit down. It sounds like an urban legend, but rats actually do manage to crawl up from the sewers and into unsuspecting residential toilets. In Portland, Oregon, one pest control company says it gets ten to 15 calls a year for rats in toilets, and it’s easy to speculate that the numbers are higher in cities like New York.

This National Geographic video explains how rats climb into your toilet.


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They can swim for three days and are able to hold their breath underwater for up to three minutes.
They have been swimming to ships as long as humans have been sailing.

They can also crawl the smallest of gaps as their ribs are hinged at the spine.

Their ability to squeeze into the tiniest of spaces means crawling manhole covers and grates pose no problems.


This post was edited on 8/18/15 at 1:37 pm
Posted by BoxmanTiger
Ohio
Member since Dec 2013
666 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:38 pm to
How would leaving the toilet seat down make any difference? Did you mean the lid?
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124287 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:40 pm to
Even if you left the lid down, if they can get through a manhole cover they can get through a closed toilet lid.
Posted by stonedbegonias
Member since Jan 2010
11581 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:41 pm to
Awwwww
Posted by LSUChamp06
Kansas City
Member since Nov 2007
2859 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:41 pm to
Not worried. Here in Louisiana we have snakes that eat rats in our toilets.
Posted by Artie Rome
Hwy 1
Member since Jul 2014
8757 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:42 pm to
quote:

e the toilet seat up again after seeing this.


False. I just did. And I'll do it again.
Posted by Konkey Dong
Member since Aug 2013
2164 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:42 pm to
Oh I gotcha. The rat will swim for 3 days, and hold his breath for 3 minutes at a time, to make it all the way up to your toilet, just to see the lid down and say "frick it, I'm turning around". Sounds legit
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
Member since Dec 2007
69106 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:43 pm to
quote:

How would leaving the toilet seat down make any difference? Did you mean the lid?




Just pasted the name of the article.
Posted by ForeverLSU02
Albany
Member since Jun 2007
52148 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:44 pm to
I'd rather see that than this




Posted by LucasP
Member since Apr 2012
21618 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:45 pm to
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Just pasted the name of the article.


So that journalist's stupidity shines through in your laziness. you're better than this.
Posted by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
66982 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:46 pm to
quote:

You will never leave the toilet seat up again after seeing this.


What does this have to do with your entire OP?
Posted by BCMCubs
Colorado
Member since Nov 2011
22146 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:48 pm to
I would poo in the yard for the rest of my life if i saw a snake in my toilet
Posted by SidewalkDawg
Chair
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9820 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:52 pm to
Posted by winston318
Oklahoma City,OK
Member since Sep 2009
3175 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:54 pm to
frick that we have a cat that loves rodents, but can't catch squirrels
Posted by theunknownknight
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2005
57359 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 1:54 pm to
This thread has made me constipated thanks
Posted by lsufan_26
Member since Feb 2004
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Posted on 8/18/15 at 2:01 pm to
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 8/18/15 at 2:01 pm to
He's cute. He just wants to cook dinner for you.
Posted by YouAre8Up
in a house
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Posted on 8/18/15 at 2:12 pm to
Posted by Jack Daniel
In the bottle
Member since Feb 2013
25486 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 2:28 pm to
One time I ate bad Chinese food, that's what the toilet looked like when I got up.
Posted by Chad504boy
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Member since Feb 2005
166322 posts
Posted on 8/18/15 at 2:33 pm to
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