Rats are everywhere in D.C. Even on the White House lawn--and the biggest one is in the Oval Office

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Rats are everywhere in D.C. Even on the White House lawn.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/rats-are-everywhere-in-dc-even-on-the-white-house-lawn/2018/12/18/b730dd5c-0228-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.944a92b6484b





A rat ventures into a trash can at the corner of 15th Street NW and Vermont Avenue NW in Washington. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)


By Marissa J. Lang
December 18 at 3:31 PM

The District for years has been plagued by a growing mischief in its midst. Rats — the four-legged, bewhiskered kind — have been spotted roaming the streets, scurrying across alleys and eating their way through trash cans.

On Monday, a rat made its way onto the White House lawn.

“I am standing in our @FoxNews standup location on the @WhiteHouse North Lawn and notice in my peripheral vision something moving at my left foot,” tweeted reporter John Roberts. “I assumed it was one of the ubiquitous WH squirrels. But no . . . it was a big brown rat.”

It was perhaps one of the boldest moves a rat had made since a rodent that became known as “Pizza Rat” was seen gorging on a slice in New York. (The original “Pizza Rat” may have been trained to be so bold by eccentric New York artist Zardulu, though other, equally hungry rats have been spotted in Manhattan since.)

Social media speculation over the rat’s identity and motives ensued. People wondered: Was it looking for a job? Fleeing a sinking ship?

Unlikely.

According to the District’s resident rat guru, Gerard Brown, a program manager at the D.C. Department of Health, it was probably one of many rats “flushed out” of its burrow by heavy weekend rain.

“Water doesn’t kill them or reduce them at all — rats can swim for as long as a week — but what it does do is make it difficult for them to find food,” Brown said. “That draws them out, too.”..............................................

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[pecosbob]

1. He heard the Chief of Staff position was open

[Cha]

4. lol

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I used to have a pet rat.

He was much cuter, smarter and had a better temperament than Trump.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Here's the one in the Oval Office

[ProudLib72]

5. As Willard Rump sits in the Oval Orifice directing his rat minions to do his bidding

"Go eat Mueller". But they turn on Willard in the end.


Starring:

Maria Butina as "Queenie"
Paul Manafort as "Socrates"
Michael Cohen as "Ben"

For millennials unfamiliar with old, old movies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_(1971_film)