RATS!
Yes, there are rats in the state's new executive office building in Richmond.
No, we're not talking about lobbyists.
We're talking about the real, furry kind, with tails and sharp teeth and an apparently voracious appetite for pork rinds. They seem to be crawling around the Patrick Henry building, where the legislature will hold its 2006 session.
The state has apparently caught 200 of them.
The news was first reported in the Virginian-Pilot and then today followed by the Times Dispatch.
According to both stories, there have been several rat sightings in the new building, which houses the governor's office and much of his cabinet. Carmella Bills, the public relations manager for the House of Delegates, says she found rat poop in the top drawer of her desk, according to Times Dispatch reporter Mike Hardy.
No jokes, please, about the rats that will arrive in January.
By Michael Shear |
August 9, 2005; 11:58 AM ET
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Posted by: Will Vehrs | August 9, 2005 02:12 PM
Not Norquist's "rats in a coke bottle?"
Posted by: a nun a mouse | August 9, 2005 03:33 PM
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