So, I was minding my own business on Memorial Day afternoon, just starting to light up some coals for a backyard BBQ with a few neighbors, when — THWACK! — a dead rat fell from the sky and landed hard on the patio pavement no more than five feet from where I was standing.
It was gray rat, with some blackish spots, had a body about 8 inches long and a tail another 8 or 10 inches, and what appeared to be two bloody wounds of some type on the side of its body.
Since I am a wuss, it was Desi — rescuer of enormous spiders and disposer of dead rodents — who wasn’t so grossed out that she couldn’t pick it up with a rake and throw it away.
I am kicking myself now that all of us — myself and the four other witnesses (after-the-fact witnesses to the dead rat, not the fall, since I was the only one lucky enough to be there for the THWACK!) — were too freaked out and creeped out to think of taking a photo to prove this actually happened! But it did.
My preferred theory is that this real life B-Horror Movie moment was actually the result of a hawk with great eyesight and a lousy grip. In any case, if dead bloody rats raining from the sky isn’t a sign of the coming apocalypse, I really don’t know what is…
too funny, certainly a sign from the universe, be careful.
As internet dream interpretation says about rats:
Rats
“To see a rat in your dream signifies feelings of doubts, greed, guilt, unworthiness and envy. You are keeping something to yourself that is eating you up inside.�Or you have done something that you are not proud of. Alternatively, a rat denotes repulsion, decay, dirtiness, and even death. The dream may also be a pun on someone who is a rat. Are you feeling betrayed?
In particular, to see a black rat represents deceit and covert activities.�If you see a white rat in your dream, then it means that you will receive help from an unexpected source. “
Sounds like maybe you have a neighbor with a ratapult…
I can beat this one, a headless rabbit was dropped from great horned owl talons in our back yard last spring. Scared the shit out of everyone. Said owl circles back around and perches on the TV antenna waiting for us to get the hell out of the yard so he or she can grab the food and fly off.
We’ve also had stuff like dead birds and huge bugs fall as well, mostly from smaller birds like sharp shinned hawks and kestrels.
I love living in the country..
I think that rat was getting ready to testify against the voting machine companies.
But it wasn’t a dream, Karen!!! So what does THAT mean?!
You win, Gindy51! But I live in the city! Heart of Hollywood! :-0
In my backyard a couple of years ago I saw a mourning dove take off from some bushes followed by a small hawk that must have been stalking the dove waiting for it to fly away. The hawk struck the dove but missed it’s grab. The dove fell to the ground stone dead, graveyard dead, not even a flutter of wings or a quivering leg. The hawk had broken the dove’s neck, and because the hawk missed it’s grab it just kept going. It was a pretty awesome sight.
The hawk was probably aiming for your grill, and hoping you’d slather up that rat with some of your tasty BBQ sauce. It was probably on a beer run when Desi ruined its lunch.
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While living on a mountain in africa, had a verreaux eagle owl drop a dwarf antelope in front of us. Ha.
It’s just the administration testing its very tiny drone tech. Or maybe flying rats as an exotic weapon launched by drones. Or alternatively, it’s the newest version of a “NSA blue letter.”
Surely it is a sign, a sign that the Cubs are going to The End of The World Series. WHOOOO CUBS!!!!
ratapult.
I love that!
Sorry, no stories about raining animals here.
Bird of prey making a donation for the Q
There’s a good reason there’s RAT in your BBQ! The mirror is the best place for you deluded assholes to figure it all out.
You don’t believe in the United Nations Agenda 21, even though the other 20% of the bills for renaming post offices is for grabbing land (no go zones) for the Forest Service.
You don’t believe in Geo-Engineering. Even though scientific evidence has been stuffed into your fascist for profit faces. You call Tin on everyone who shoved it into your FACE.
Now that RATS are on your plates for dinner, courtesy of the UN’ new insects are food program, you start to whine. Why don’t you shut up and eat the flies in Africa?
Still you don’t have any electricity off grid. Where’s your photo’s of your solar panels?
That’s right you don’t have any!
Go back to Election Fraud. That’s where you belong. You have officially strayed far enough with this GREEN CRAP.
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Still no comment after YEARS from the so called JOURNALISTS..
Phil @ anywhere,
Do you have sexual intercourse with your dog with that mouth?
Seriously though, Phil,
If you’re experiencing feelings of excessive anger and frustration, there are proven scientific methods that are much more effective for reducing stress than fly-by-shitting on a bunch of people you don’t know. Including—
1. meditation
2. prolonged exercise–endorphins really help
3. masturbation–sure, a little old fashioned, but tried and true
4. all three at once, say on a long run or swim
David, you can force your way through this blog right now, but you’ll never force your way past my face without paying the piper.
NEVER.
Phil,
No idea what you’re talking about. Do you provide a translator with these rants?
Phil, you sure seem hostile. You may be able to learn some coping skills through therapy or as suggested, meditation. While Agenda 21 may be real and a problem, your attitude assures you will be ineffective in your efforts to deal with it.
I once had a live mouse fall on me in a movie theater!!!
Ordinarily I would have read this and thought it was BS…
About 20 years ago I was visiting Orlando from Australia and my wife and I were walking along a busy street at Disney World when, a small fish fell from the sky and landed about 2 feet in front of me. It was alive and thrashing around on the road. I looked around and no-one else paid any attention. I stopped my wide and pointed it out. She seemed ambivalent.
I looked around to see where it could possibly have come from. No buildings around us, no ponds, juts a road with grass parkland either side. What the!
Our best guess is that the fish was sucked up in a tornado or something similar and later dropped.
As I said, I am the biggest sceptic of these things and would not have believed you. I do now. I have seen it first hand!
Can anyone else suggest what might have happened?