Here's a fun rat story, not sure if I ever told it here. Probably did but this is a rat thread so..might as well
I was living in NYC, in a small studio apartment...150 sq feet. Very strange layout.
The bathroom was split in two. One small room had a shower and an airplane size sink.
The toilet was in a separate room that was only big enough for the toilet basically. The building built in 1900 was steam heat.
In the toilet room there was a steam pipe coming up through the floor in the corner. If you sat on this toilet, your left knee would hit this pipe and you would burn your leg a little.
So one day im sitting on the toilet and I look down where the pipe is coming up through the floor and I see a stick poking up through the cutout around the pipe.
I pulled on the stick and it came right up but it wasn't a stick. It was a tail.
Holy smokes! I looked down in and there was a fully cooked rat squeezed in there. I attempted to remove it piece by piece thinking it would stink up the place. Each piece came out in a cooked chunk of leg, thigh, etc....no blood at at all
I imagine that one day a rat followed behind me from the hallway into the apartment and got trapped when I shut the door. I probably got up to do something and the rat got spooked and tried to avoid me, panicked and got stuck in the hole up against that hot steam pipe and cooked itself well-done
That's life in the big city! (for me and the rat)
I was hoping to find a picture of the toilet room with the pipe but only found this....the doors to the bathroom are closed so you cant see the strange layout. It nice that they have since added a closet. Wish I had that.
https://streeteasy.com/property/8453277-179-prince-street-19
I must have been bored because I laid out all the pieces of the rat so that it once again looked like a rat but in puzzle form and took a photo but I cant locate this photo unfortunately