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11-24-2003, 01:40 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Portland, OR
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Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
I have to relate this story as I heard it this morning. This actually happened this weekend.
The secretary in our office received a call from her husband. He told her that one of their employees could not make it in today. The reason was as follows..............
This fellow lives out in the Brightwood/Welches area. They had been having a rat problem so he got himself a trap and set it. Well, low and behold he caught a rat. As insurance, he decided to shoot it with a .22.
After shooting the rat he then disposed of it on his burn pile. He decided to light the pile and then returned to the house. He happened to look out the window to check on the fire when he saw a streaking flame running across the ground headed for his house. The rat was alive and while on fire he scurried back under the owners house.
Well, needless to say, the rat started a house fire, the owner called the fire department and the house suffered approx. 30K in damage.
This is a true story!
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11-24-2003, 01:46 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Grants Pass, Oregon
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
:shocked:
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11-24-2003, 01:56 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Hillsboro
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
How do you explain that to the insurance co? :whazzup:
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11-24-2003, 01:57 PM
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
D'OH!
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11-24-2003, 02:07 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Mountaindale- between the Girl Scout Camp and the Nudist Camp :)
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
Did the Rat make it? 
Proly one of those indestructable Cyborg Mutant versions.1 Better notify the new California Gubbenor. He'll take care of it. Much easier job than the CA budget problem. :grin:
I'll be back! 
This story kinda reminds me of a story I heard about a guy at work 15 years ago. He got sick of the moles in his back yard. Tried everything. Finally got some stuff that formed Carbide Gas in the runs and lit her off. :shocked:
Apparently he got his entire back yard re-landscaped in the process! [img]graemlins/stupid.gif[/img]
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11-24-2003, 02:52 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Ariel, WA
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
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11-24-2003, 03:25 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Klamath Falls
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
:shocked: :shocked: Rat BBQ. COOL 
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11-24-2003, 03:26 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Forest Grove, OR
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
 [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]
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11-24-2003, 04:13 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: On the back nine
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
That is one bad *** rat.
Our friend got tired of his moles, so he used a whole can of black powder. As a tamping device, he used a big rock/boulder. Blew that rock 20 ft in the air. Ruined the lawn. Blew dirt out to the street. Moles just moved to other side of the yard. They were back in two days.
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11-24-2003, 07:39 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ore/Ida
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
AW RATS! :grin:
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11-24-2003, 09:28 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Longview, Washington
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
:shocked: :shocked:
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11-24-2003, 10:02 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Mill Creek
Posts: 157
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
Moles.......there is also the story about the guy who poured several gallons of gas down the mole hole......lit it on fire......the tunnel ran under his barn.....blew the hell out of the tunnel ..and burned his barn down...true story, it was in Readers Digest. :shocked: :grin:
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11-25-2003, 12:18 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 2,090
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
A brief follow up........
When the insurance adjustor came out to the house, the owner said, "I'll bet you've never seen a claim like this before."
Actually, the adjustor had seen 6 or 7 other cases of fires started from animals that went running from the burn pile after a fire was started. Whether it was a field fire or another structure that caught fire, it had happened before.
Danger lurks in the burn pile!!!!!! :shocked:
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11-25-2003, 12:33 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Mountaindale- between the Girl Scout Camp and the Nudist Camp :)
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
Except for the part that it was the SAME rat that he trapped and shot I almost believe this. Wood rats love burn piles. They're like a prefab little condo for em.
A bunch of Grey Diggers moved into a stump/brush pile I had Bulldozed up in early summer. By fall it looked like Ground Squirrel city (it was a BIG pile).
Waited until the fall rains really had everything soaked down and lit that baby off. I never saw any flaming squirrels come out. Never saw any that weren't flaming either. Figure I baked 'em in the ground?
Sure hope they didn't move out the day before. I've got enough problems with the ones already living under the barn slab. They're digging all the pea gravel out from under it. 
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I only WORK (used to be fish)on days that end in y
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
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11-25-2003, 12:54 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: pocatello Id.
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
I actually spent 18 summers as a Rodent controller.We killed pocket Gophers for the Froest service. we were not very colorful, as we didnt burn anything or blow anything up, we just put some strictnine oats in thier run . No fuss ,no mess ,problem,,,.Thanks for the funny story. id. painter
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11-25-2003, 11:10 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 2,931
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Re: Beware of flaming rat!!!!!!!
Sounds like a version of the two guys who tried dinamite while ice fishing and end up sinking their brand new truck.
What a bummer of a site. At least the guy saw it go under the house and knew there would be a fire. Could have been a lot worse.
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