Oh the most vile thing just happened

[KimmyChi]

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

OH MY GOD this just reminded me of my own horror story which I clearly had blocked out

Went on holiday for a week for my 30th, early June, clearly v warm weather in the UK. As when I returned there was a dead pigeon on my drive..full of maggots.
I am not usually one for dramatics but honestly I was retching and my eyes were streaming as I had to use a spade to get it in a bin bag 🤮😭😭. The smell of it and the weight when it was on the spade oh god absolutely the worst experience ever

Kill it. Burn it with fire.

I smiIed a bit at this...I rather Iike rats. HOWEVER, I aIso feeI deepIy for you. Had it been me, and had the rat been a spider (of any size at aII), I'd have taken to my bed with chocoIate, crisps, and a BIG bottIe of good wine!

I can remember many years ago my Mum screaming in the kitchen. By the time I got there she had stripped off her trousers as a stag beetle had crawled up inside them when she was in the garden. I love stag beetles as did she but not climbing up your legs with their spooky clingy feet.

For me it’s cockroaches. We were over run with them at one office I worked at. I screamed like a little girl every time I encountered one.

Oh, that’s awful. I thought it was bad enough when I opened our compost bin and one was looking up at me 😬 I refused to go near that thing again for months!

immediately book yourself in for a spa weekend somewhere.

Sounds both horrifying and hilarious. Sorry, lol

I've had a similar experience with a roach before and thought that was bad. If it had happened with a rat the screams would have been heard for miles around. 😱It's giving me the shudders just to imagine it!

DD would be getting bin duty for a few weeks with her Ratatouille joke. 😂

reading this made me completely shudder. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Gin might be the only answer for this.

The fucker knew what he was doing.

OP I would have convulsions for 5 days every time I remembered. Be strong.

I am not sure if this will make you feel any better OP but I once met a rat.. in a railway squat toilet in Romania. it ran strait between my legs and I did a wee on it as it went.... And yes I screamed and it just went on running.

That was in 1995 and I'm still not sure who got the worse shock ... me or the rat.

I've had very lovely pet rats 🐀 and this would still make me jump!

Oh dear god. That is disgusting. Mice, cockroaches and spiders no problem at all. But rats!!

Hate the fuckers.

Want to hear my disgusting story? Almost or maybe equal to yours.

But I was (and still am) traumatised and I've been to war zones!!

Before going to bed, opened my kitchen cupboard to put some rubbish in the bin ... and touched something fluffy!

Took a couple of mini-seconds to realise ...

It was a rat!!

On the top of my bin!!!

Inside the fucking kitchen cupboard!!

The bastard ran, I was genuinely almost sick.

For about 2 days whenever I closed my eyes all I could see and feel was that fluffy fucker under my hand.

Rat catcher was called first thing the next morning.

Yeah, I picked up my recycling bin that the dustmen had chucked over the wall, I was home late and it was dark and rainy. There was a fucking slug on the lip and the first I knew of it was when I squidged it with my hand 😳

You poor thing OP. I hope you’re ok, I’d have to be checked into hospital for a good month long stay after this. Nightmare experience

I don't have anything clever to say but just wanted to say "you poor thing"

Rats aren't so bad . It ran over you and ran off . Wild rats are actually

Much misunderstood truth be told but I understand the fear .

Eww that must have been horrible.

reminds me to complain to my mum’s council as her next door neighbours has decided they don’t put the wheelie bin out so the afternoon before collection day, her daughter/sister comes along and takes the bags out of the wheelie bin and places the bags out for collection.

😂

I've just rescued 5 fancy rats 🐀. They're very much maligned . These ladies aren't well socialised at all and are being hard work . I've met tamer wild rats ! But I've done quite a bit of research on rats , and wild rats aren't actually as bad as people think,

"I ran back to my wall cavity but she kept on running, ALONGSIDE ME"

Rats in the garden, I don't mind but neighbours complained. The rats are useless, didn't kill the neighbours who are not the preferred thing of the two options. Didn't manage to kill the neighbours awful dogs either. Feel bad for the soon to be late rats as council aren't too expensive to come out and deal with them.

Only white rats (usually domesticated pet rats) have pink eyes. Rats' eyes are brown.

I used to keep them as pets. And I don't mind wild ones. (Their tails are used for balance and heat regulation, btw.) I'm in a little block of flats with large communal dumpsters. The rats have gnawed through the bottoms of the plastic ones, and my neighbour, a fit young 23 yr old prison officer, is scared of them, and kicks the dumpster he wants to use before he opens it, and waits for all the rats to drop out the bottom and scurry away. We have one metal one, which they haven't got into from the bottom - but I opened it once, and a rat was looking back at me, from on top of the rubbish inside the bin.

I am quite blase about it now, though I admit that at first it was slightly alarming.

Dear God I want to scream just reading about it. Wine and Chocolate OP

Pink or red eye rats are domesticated.

I rescued a boy from a garden found in similar circs . He was the most amazing pet ever.