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!<\/i> — a dead rat fell from the sky and landed hard on the patio pavement no more than five feet from where I was standing.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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!<\/i>) — were too freaked out and creeped out to think of taking a photo to prove this actually happened! But it did.<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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