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You wake up in the middle of the night and have to go to the bathroom. You flip up the seat and find a rat in your toilet bowl. What next?

Posted - July 23, 2016

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  • 44604

    Pee on it.

      July 23, 2016 4:29 PM MDT
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  • Hopefully I'd notice it before sitting.  That thing is gonna be looking for a life-rope

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      July 23, 2016 4:29 PM MDT
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  • 6988

     My mother found a frog in hers. I saw it. We flushed that sucker back down.

      July 23, 2016 4:37 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    Get him out.  What else?  Get a towel and get him out.   Take him somewhere and let him go.

      July 23, 2016 4:59 PM MDT
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  • 2500

    Better than finding a live cottonmouth in there.

    Extension cord, gonna throw the business end in there to calm it down. (Don't try that at your home, it's a VERY bad plan, even with GFI protection.) Either that, or the ol' 12-gauge . . .  (We need a new porcelain "convenience anyhow.)

    Then I'm going to go looking for the cat and kick his rear end for slacking off on his only job! That lazy little bugger . . .

    Not much chance of that happening at my domicile though. Only access to the plumbing is on the roof through a tall vent pipe.

      July 23, 2016 5:14 PM MDT
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  • 8214

    I'd pee on the floor. This video is animal abuse.  

      July 23, 2016 6:33 PM MDT
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  • 7939

    Die. 

    Actually, I would scream loud enough that my neighbors would think someone was being murdered. If my oldest son didn't come rescue me, hopefully the police would when they came. 

      July 23, 2016 6:36 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Pick 'im up by the tail and drop 'im through the hole in the kitchen floor for the drunks who live below to deal with.
      July 23, 2016 6:44 PM MDT
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  • Whistle > Fox Terrier > Dead Rat

      July 23, 2016 7:02 PM MDT
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  • o.O... now i gotta have that potentiality on my mind, ha.

    uh, leave the house. that's what i'd do. i'd make an announcement on the way out, but i'd be gone.

      July 23, 2016 8:37 PM MDT
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  • 130

    Pee on his head, then leave it for my wife to find.

      July 23, 2016 9:33 PM MDT
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  • 46117

      July 23, 2016 11:34 PM MDT
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  • 1264

    Hoot and holler, well heck I just get out my frying pan, and make me some stew, I ain't go'en hungry! 

      July 23, 2016 11:53 PM MDT
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  • 23576

    That'd be me, too.

    :)

      July 24, 2016 2:54 AM MDT
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  • 23576

    Based on most of these answer, so many people on this site go through life seemingly calm ~

    Me? I'd jump ten feet in the air, scream, yell "OHHHHH!!!!" and probably fall down.

      July 24, 2016 2:56 AM MDT
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  • Actually it is not.  Rat's do this this all the time with no problems.  The video is from an experiment to determine how rodents manage to climb upo the sewer pipes and into peoples toilets. Rats are excellent swimmers and can tread water for 3-4 days on end. 

      July 24, 2016 7:40 AM MDT
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  • I HATE rats...WIld ones that is.  I would probably scream, too. 

      July 24, 2016 7:41 AM MDT
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  • Ever since I first heard about this, I always check before sitting now.

    LOL! I can imagine what that announcement might sound like! 

      July 24, 2016 7:43 AM MDT
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  • You just made my day. :)

      July 24, 2016 7:44 AM MDT
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  •   July 24, 2016 7:45 AM MDT
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  • ewwwwwwwwww!

    No matter how hungry I was, That thing just came out of a sewer and is marinated in human waste. I'd rather eat the family dog first

      July 24, 2016 7:47 AM MDT
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  • Yep! Screaming seems like the most approrpiate response (for me anyways)

      July 24, 2016 7:48 AM MDT
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  • It's just gonna keep coming back up! 

    But, I think my 2nd response (after screeching) would be to try and flush it, too

      July 24, 2016 7:49 AM MDT
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  • 5808
    Close the lid
    Tape it closed
    Make a big net around the toilet
    Open lid and if is still there
    It will jump out
    into the net
    ...gotcha
    Give to landlord
    Along with video you made
    And have conversation
    With landlord
      July 24, 2016 9:45 AM MDT
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