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South Park Rat: Dead, Sleeping or Stoned?

Thu May 15, 2008 at 03:19:07 PM

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While on a leisurely lunch break in picturesque South Park, I stumbled across a pair of lunchers who were hunched over this little guy. The man murmured, "Hello, rat, are you sleeping?" while his female companion adjusted her giant sunglasses and harumphed, "He's probably dead!"

This seemed to settle the argument and after they sauntered away I proceeded to give the maybe-corpse the paparazzi treatment.

Is it possible this little guy expired from the oppressive heat wave that's settled over the city? Are our rats really so delicate? Or is he, as the cup-half-full observer speculated, just napping? Or...is he just stoned?

More adorable portraits of the probably dead rat after the jump.

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Awww, look at his little pawsies! -Andy Wright

Category: Local News

4 Comments:

JJ says:

HA HA! I hope the little thing is stoned. Maybe the dabbling went too far...

bigfoot says:

It's possible he's been poisoned, either deliberately through rat poison, or through ingesting pesticides.

I guess if you're a rat you don't get much compassion around here...

I never met a rat I didn't like. Stoners, on the other hand...

evan says:

Kinda looks like he got run over by a bike.

marc says:

Nah, it looks like a senior pedestrian walked over the rat in the middle of the street.

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