True rat tale.

After he'd finished he calmly wiped the gore from his bare legs with the towel that was covering the meat and whistled off to the market.

Had a great deal of problems with meat dishes for some time.

I expected that you were going to write he gathered up the baby rats and put them in the basket for sale with the rest of the meat.

Ok more true stories

In Laos I went to a rat festival which is an annual event of eating rice rats. They live on rice (hence the name) so are clean and nothing like their cousins that live on garbage. We had several meals over the days such as bbq rat on a skewer, and the ubiquitous sweat curried rat. One I remember vividly was a special soup with new born rats (slinkits) floating around amongst the rice and vegetables - tasted pretty good actually.

I didn't have any problems with meat dishes for any time after

CB

Sweat curried rat???? That sounds a bit disgusting. Where do they get the sweat? Is it what drips off the cook's brow?

True rat tale.

After he'd finished he calmly wiped the gore from his bare legs with the towel that was covering the meat and whistled off to the market.

Had a great deal of problems with meat dishes for some time.

I expected that you were going to write he gathered up the baby rats and put them in the basket for sale with the rest of the meat.

Ok more true stories

In Laos I went to a rat festival which is an annual event of eating rice rats. They live on rice (hence the name) so are clean and nothing like their cousins that live on garbage. We had several meals over the days such as bbq rat on a skewer, and the ubiquitous sweat curried rat. One I remember vividly was a special soup with new born rats (slinkits) floating around amongst the rice and vegetables - tasted pretty good actually.

I didn't have any problems with meat dishes for any time after

CB

This why you have no friends..........

This why you have no friends..........

No there are many other reasons why I don't have friends

CB

Sweat curried rat???? That sounds a bit disgusting. Where do they get the sweat? Is it what drips off the cook's brow?

Spelling police alert Yes my error, should have been "sweet curried rat" not "sweat curried rat"

Sigh

CB

Just for Sibey.

Time for an update Sounders - what's the latest on the office rat situation?

Time for an update Sounders - what's the latest on the office rat situation?

The rats have more or less all died & the place stinks because they have died in the walls & are beginning to rot.

Be careful. The smell will attract er..............rats.

Be careful. The smell will attract er..............rats.

Maybe, Batts.

..........of the Ruddy breed.

(I think you'll find the poison will do the job if you give it a few days.)

My girlfriend tried this and yes they died, we (meaning me) then spent the next several weeks dragging dead and decomposing rat carcases out of every nook and cranny in, under and on top of our house.

Time for an update Sounders - what's the latest on the office rat situation?

The rats have more or less all died & the place stinks because they have died in the walls & are beginning to rot.

I warned you but did you listen?

CB

He could try spraying some Brut aftershave around the office - that will overpower any other smell... (but then again, what would be worse?)

He could try spraying some Brut aftershave around the office - that will overpower any other smell... (but then again, what would be worse?)

I would opt for the decaying rats as being the better fragrance

In the Chiang Mai markets there was a lovely lady selling Brut, Menage, and Blue Stratos - I will see if she is still there when I return (hopefully soon)

CB

Rat safari. It started with trapping and then glue boards but to no avail. I had squashed them with my feet much to the horror of my employees.

I became convinced there was an old alpha rat that was responsible for my troubles. He was a very smart rat. He ignored the glue and baited traps. His wives and offspring I killed by the dozens but still he reproduced and provided more rat fodder for my killing machines.

I tracked him by the greasy black trail his body left as he searched my restaurant for prime bits of food. I became aware of his movements.

I went to the local gun store and purchased a Beeman air rifle. Over $200.00 and a Bushnell scope and rodent pellets. The pellets have a pointed face to facilitate rodent killing. Or birds I guess. The Beeman was .25 caliber and the pellet moved at over 900 FPS with ten pumps of the rifle.

I found a shooting site and made a sand bag for a bench rest. I sighted in my rifle at home which resulted in a couple of holes in my bathroom door but I persevered. The killing area of a rat is relatively small less than an inch or a head shot. I decided on a chest shot as I had power to spare with the .25 cal pellet at 900 FPS. The Crow Magnum pellet should enter the rats chest and destroy any organs within two inches of the direction of its travel. That should drop him in his tracks. I didn’t want him retreating to the walls to die amongst his loved ones.

I had a light meal on the night of the kill. I needed to stay awake till he showed up. I closed the restaurant and turned off all the lights except the emergency lights which stayed on 24.7.

I took my position and pumped up the rifle and loaded the pellet. I would only get one shot.

I had a small cloth to wipe the nervous perspiration from my forehead and hands. I flexed my shooting finger to keep it limber and waited. I heard a noise, a slight scratching noise, he was coming. He entered next to the hood over the steak grill. He looked up and down and sniffed the air for signs of humans.

But it was too late for him. I had his chest in my cross hairs. The rifle made a small phhtt sound as the pellet exited the barrel. I was watching through the scope. He turned to face the sound. What I had planned as a chest shot turned into a head shot. Right between the eyes. He dropped like a stone. Dead, finished, set lao.

I am a rat hunter. He was a gigantic rat. I might even claim to being a big game hunter. My rat safari was over.

I didn’t shed a tear for my victim. I was glad he was dead. I thought about having him mounted but the cost was prohibitive. And I don’t know if the restaurants guests would have shared my pride of accomplishment.

The remaining rats went easily. The alpha male being gone they seemed to accept their destiny.

I take it, from the number of rats you've dispatched, that your local soi dogs are carrying a bit of extra weight these days. Of course, that's assuming that your soup and stew customers are not...

In the Chiang Mai markets there was a lovely lady selling Brut, Menage, and Blue Stratos - I will see if she is still there when I return (hopefully soon)

So that's why I can't buy it in Oz any more.

In the Chiang Mai markets there was a lovely lady selling Brut, Menage, and Blue Stratos - I will see if she is still there when I return (hopefully soon)

So that's why I can't buy it in Oz any more.

Nasty stutter there, Chimpy...

I read, don't know where, that people are starting to get skin outbreaks and tummy problems from using keyboards in offices.

This is because, at night, mice are running over the keyboards eating crumbs caught between the keys and deficating between the keys .

And people the next morning are rolling into work and rubbing their faces and licking their lips etc.

Mice and rats are out to take over the world. Even sweaty ones.

I read, don't know where, that people are starting to get skin outbreaks and tummy problems from using keyboards in offices.

This is because, at night, mice are running over the keyboards eating crumbs caught between the keys and deficating between the keys .

And people the next morning are rolling into work and rubbing their faces and licking their lips etc.

Mice and rats are out to take over the world. Even sweaty ones.

People who drink straight from bottles (a really stupid habit) can catch Leptospirosis (also known as Weil's disease, Weil's syndrome, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever, Rat Catcher's Yellows), Derives from the rats pissing as they run over the crates in the cellars.

Always ask for a glass. You can then have ice in your beer and feel really Thai. (Or Vietnamese - they do the same)

Interesting, Humph. I always drink from a glass - but only because I find it a more enjoyable way of imbibing. Haven't had a stubby of beer to the lips in decades. And every time (in a bar where I'm not a regular) that I ask for a Singha and a glass to pour it into, they ask 'You want iiii (or naam kaeng)?'

I got some pest control guys over to take care of the rats we have on the attic, a few plastic platforms with a bit of rice cake with syrup in the middle and glue all over and we seem to be rat-free. Just have to seal their entrances now.

I've got lots of stories of "It seemed like a good idea at the time." Thankfully, I survived them all, but more by good luck than good management. Most had to do with wildlife experiences in the great outdoors. I can sympathsize with Soundman's idea of a solution to a rat problem. The story of a Tukay in the attic in the general forum is heading in that direction.

Has anyone here even thought about the probably horrificly painful death of the critters? As they are stuck to a piece of wood sqeeking away?

I have. And i know that i spelt horrifacly badly.

Has anyone here even thought about the probably horrificly painful death of the critters? As they are stuck to a piece of wood sqeeking away?

I have. And i know that i spelt horrifacly badly.

I agree with you Patsycat. Even though I'm a hunter and a fisherman, and I kill things to eat, I don't like torturing critters of any sort. I used the sticky stuff once, but I hated having to kill the poor rat after it got stuck. It was just plain messy. Unfortunately, the bigger rats are too smart for the spring traps and avoid them.

I think it's spelled "horrifically", Patsycat. English spelling is crazy how it changes when you have to add an "L"

Yes. George, put a spell checker on the site...

People who drink straight from bottles (a really stupid habit) can catch Leptospirosis (also known as Weil's disease, Weil's syndrome, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever, 7-day fever, Rat Catcher's Yellows), Derives from the rats pissing as they run over the crates in the cellars.

Always ask for a glass. You can then have ice in your beer and feel really Thai. (Or Vietnamese - they do the same)

When I had my bar I used to get really angry with the staff who would put bottles in the ice bin. Their response was always the same "customer want" I could not get it into their head to take some ice out and put it into a bucket but NOT put it in with the loose ice.

At the back of the bar was a fenced in area and we used to store cartons of beer there. It always stank and we cleaned the area every day. Turned out it was guys from the bar behind who used to piss there being too lazy to go to the toilets about 30meters away. Cured them of that habit by hooking up a 24volt transformer to the fence line with a couple of alligator clips. Knocked a couple of guys having a late night slash on their arse and next morning we could still smell burnt hair. They had to be taken to hospital with painful burns.

When I had my bar I used to get really angry with the staff who would put bottles in the ice bin. <snip>

Yes, I've noticed that bar staff, once told what to do in a given situation, tend to do exactly as they're told without thinking. Every now and then, I order a shot of jagermeister. Amazing how many bar staff will reach for the shot glass - but pour the shot into a jigger first. There'd be a thread's worth of stories on the odd and amusing things that bar staff do.

Yes. George, put a spell checker on the site...

There is a spell checker.

Unfortunately it does not run concurrently whilst typing.

If you are using IE, click on tools and look for "IE spell".

Dunno if Firebricks has a spell check, but there is one for IE users .

Clicked on tools - no IE spell option (IE8).