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Oh the most vile thing just happened

246 replies

KimmyChi · 05/10/2023 21:50

Dark. Rural

Taking the wheely bin to the road (down the drive) , torch in hand

Bin lid not closed properly as it’s quite full

Pulling the bin behind me

A rat. A fucking RAT runs out of the bin, up my arm, over my shoulder and down my back.

Christ I can still feel it. I screamed like a pathetic idiot, threw the wheely bin on the floor and ran inside. The rat was running ALONGSIDE ME

Christ I’m never going outside again

OP posts:
JamieJ93 · 05/10/2023 23:00

What an inconsiderate little rodent 😏

NorthernGnashers · 05/10/2023 23:03

I would still be screaming hysterically, hours later.

IcedBananas · 05/10/2023 23:06

I think I’d have woken the whole neighbourhood with my screaming! Never leave the house again OP!

JackieO22 · 05/10/2023 23:07

The little horror that bit me!

vipersnest1 · 05/10/2023 23:08

I can go one better:
Two days ago I got up in the morning to find a dead pigeon in my garden.
I have a cat, but don't think he's responsible as the pigeon had no visible injuries. There were a few under feathers lying around but the pigeon looked untouched, so I can only assume it either dropped dead or flew into something which ultimately killed it, and the feathers are a result of that.
So, anyhow, I've been pondering how best to dispose of it (meanwhile desperately hoping that some creature would come along and either eat it there or take it away).
Tonight, i decided that I needed to take action (but was also worried that my domestic bin isn't due to be emptied for over a week and I know I will likely end up with maggots in my bin).
I ended up putting it into a carrier bag, after nudging in there with my foot, and then knotting the carrier bag and then putting it into a bin liner and doing the same, in the hope that I will keep the maggots at bay.
I could feel the feet sticking out as I was knotting the bags. Envy

MaryBeery · 05/10/2023 23:10

lissie123 · 05/10/2023 22:01

I got out of the shower last week. Looked in the mirror and a massive spider was crawling nonchalantly down my upper arm. I screamed and whacked the fucker off me- but if it had been a rat on me- there are no words to cover that horror.

Edited

Yep. I'm not remotely spiderphobic, which is a good job too where I live, but I still shrieked when I felt one unexpectedly run up my arm last week. It's an instinctive reaction. Rats being significantly bigger, it's hardly surprising OP was freaked out.

Cowlover89 · 05/10/2023 23:10

Rats are cute 🐀

corblimeylove · 05/10/2023 23:11

After your bath in hot gin, consider the poor rat and the tale he is telling tonight - mad human woman, trundling the restaurant down the road, no choice but try and get past her, her running alongside screaming, him feeling he would never get away from her. Traumatic for the poor lil fella.

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 05/10/2023 23:11

Anyone else picturing a rat running back to its little rat family saying “bloody hell Brenda, the most awful thing just happened then I ran back home and this giant chased me!”

Brenda Rat: It’s more scared of you than you are of it.

Brenda Rat is the sensible one.

Pinkyhere · 05/10/2023 23:12

Not sure what the protocol is but surely this has to go in classics.

I have sobbed reading this.
Hope you're clean and recovering op

EddieHowesShithousingMags · 05/10/2023 23:12

This OP has made me feel all kinds of weird in the back of my neck. I’d have died a thousand deaths I think if it happened to me so a bit of screaming is well understandable.

itsnotmeitsu · 05/10/2023 23:12

I'm not keen on rats, but I'm fine with mice as long as they're not in my house. There's no way I'd use a trap on any of these animals. When a live mouse appeared out of the blue in our kitchen I Googled how to get rid of them humanely. The result was a small step-ladder next to the bin with an empty cardboard kitchen paper tube, with peanut butter smeared on the end, balanced over the bin. Once the mouse had climbed the steps to get to the peanut butter and over-balanced to fall into the bin he was transported to the countryside. Not sure my husband was too thrilled about my way of dealing with the mouse humanely, as he was the one who had to drive the mouse away from the house and deliver it into the countryside with perhaps people thinking, 'Who's that emptying their bin here?', but my conscience was clear.

LuckySantangelo35 · 05/10/2023 23:13

@CosyCoffee

I'm sorry you had a fright OP. But I really don't get this fear at all! I like watching the rats at the park and I can't imagine being scared if one jumped on me, any more than if a cat did. I used to have a pet grey squirrel which some people found revolting.”

rats are filthy and spread diseases that’s why

Tryingmybestadhd · 05/10/2023 23:16

You are not pathetic at all I would have dove the same if not worse . Rats are just vile vile creatures.
if it makes you feel less bad when I moved into this home 5 years ago it was a big move from a big English city to rural highlands , o had to go in one if the outbuilding at night , my home is in the middle of fields , no lights around here or anyone . There are farm gates to get to us . It was 10 Pm and I hear noise as I was walking back to the front door , flashlight in hand when someone says “ hi I think this is for you “ and there is bloody DPd driver there , I saw him , I did but I think my brain was in so much panic that all I did was scream followed by repeating “ oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck “ . The guy was panicking by then , it probably only lasted a minute but I swear it felt forever . I apologised and do did him , he couldn’t find the house so he left the van outside of the gate a quarter of a mile down the road , and the parcel wasn’t even for he ir the right address !
Honestly I think you are brave

MrsDanversChickenSandwich · 05/10/2023 23:18

itsnotmeitsu · 05/10/2023 23:12

I'm not keen on rats, but I'm fine with mice as long as they're not in my house. There's no way I'd use a trap on any of these animals. When a live mouse appeared out of the blue in our kitchen I Googled how to get rid of them humanely. The result was a small step-ladder next to the bin with an empty cardboard kitchen paper tube, with peanut butter smeared on the end, balanced over the bin. Once the mouse had climbed the steps to get to the peanut butter and over-balanced to fall into the bin he was transported to the countryside. Not sure my husband was too thrilled about my way of dealing with the mouse humanely, as he was the one who had to drive the mouse away from the house and deliver it into the countryside with perhaps people thinking, 'Who's that emptying their bin here?', but my conscience was clear.

realistically that mouse died soon after being relocated to the countryside. They don't fare well when dropped in a new location. sometimes a quick death is kinder, although I can understand why some people refuse to do that for reasons of conscience.

MsRosley · 05/10/2023 23:20

Poor rat. It must have been terrified as well.

Dibbydoos · 05/10/2023 23:20

I'm screaming with you @KimmyChi

I bet you love living in a rural area, though. I love living on a nature reserve... but for the rats......

MsRosley · 05/10/2023 23:21

Rats are just vile vile creatures.

What, worse than humans?

jazzyfips · 05/10/2023 23:21

Poor rat, you probably scared it to death 😂

Hawkins0009 · 05/10/2023 23:23

jazzyfips · 05/10/2023 23:21

Poor rat, you probably scared it to death 😂

just a bit, especially the bin crashing on the floor

CrunchyCarrot · 05/10/2023 23:24

OK so if we are telling stories of this nature, here's mine:

Our long departed elderly kitty was free to come and go as he pleased at night. He'd often come up to the bedroom and snuggle up with us in the middle of the night, having been out on cat business.

Anyway one night, I awoke as I usually do and went to the bathroom in the dark. I pushed my shoulder length hair away from my face and felt a wet patch in my hair. I thought 'that's odd' in a sleep-confuzzled state, and touched the area again. Not only was there a wet patch, it was a squishy wet patch. I started to wake up rather rapidly, because something was Not Right as I stumbled back to the bedroom. Snapping the light switch on, something fell out of my hair as I panicked and dragged my fingers through it. Yes, it was a slug!!! 😱It fell on the floor and I remember thinking I had to get it or else it would disappear under the bed and who knows where it might go!

Later when I calmed down I realised what must have happened. Elderly kitty had been out, only because he was old he was curled up sleeping in the garden. A slug must have gotten onto his fur and when he came indoors, so did the slug. Then when kitty got on the bed and decided to sleep on the pillow next to me, the slug decided my hair was more interesting!

YUCK!!!

I still feel shivers of disgust thinking about it.

CrunchyCarrot · 05/10/2023 23:25

P.S. to that story, the same kitty caught a large rat in his final months and lovingly deposited it (dead) in our bedroom. He really loved us.

Pumpernickles · 05/10/2023 23:27

You'll never forget this. I was dancing in an old bomb shelter (it was a disco) when a cockroach ran around my foot. As far as I can remember I didn't scream, which is unlike me.

billybear · 05/10/2023 23:28

put your bin out before it goes dark,i would of screamed as well

itsnotmeitsu · 05/10/2023 23:30

Thanks for that @MrsDanversChickenSandwich 😩That makes me feel so bad, but after reading about limbs being torn off, etc, with traps, I don't want mice chewing on stuff in the house (and we've also had rats), so I'm not sure sure how else to deal with it.

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