Coming soon to a city near you.....
QuoteAs Tehran's rodents become increasingly resistant to poison, Iran has a new way to combat the growing pest population: snipers.
Ten sniper teams reportedly have been deployed to combat the capital city's growing rat population, which currently outnumbers Tehran's 12 million human residents, according to The National.
"It's become a 24/7 war," said Mohammad Hadi Heydarzadeh, the head of Tehran municipality's environmental agency. "We use chemical poison during the day and the snipers at night."
The sharpshooters have bagged more than 2,000 rats in recent weeks, The National reports, but the surviving pests appear to be mutating.
"They seem to have a genetic mutation," said Ismail Kahram, an environmental adviser to the city council. "They are bigger now and look different. These are changes that normally take millions of years of evolution."
Kahram says the rats are so big, they even outweigh many of Tehran's cats.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/05/iran-reportedly-uses-snipers-to-tackle-tehran-rat-problem/?test=latestnews#ixzz2MimhJBSV
That is one serious rat problem.
...never mind...
Quote from: steve58 on March 05, 2013, 09:17:18 PM
...never mind...
I could take a guess as I'm probably thinking along similar lines.
Or not.
So anyway....
The WereRats of Teheran?
If this really is an evolutionary selective trait then we should be seeing suicide vest wearing rats any day now
Con
Quote from: Con on March 05, 2013, 11:50:17 PM
If this really is an evolutionary selective trait then we should be seeing suicide vest wearing rats any day now
Con
I thought all those were rats. Its the same breed.
You guys are so unimaginative... this is obviously an ingenious counter terrorism program devised by DARPA
sniper training for Quds Group.
Rattenkrieg for the 21st century.
Quote from: Con on March 05, 2013, 11:50:17 PM
If this really is an evolutionary selective trait then we should be seeing suicide vest wearing rats any day now
Con
Or the rats will start fielding counter-sniper teams.
Quote"They seem to have a genetic mutation," said Ismail Kahram, an environmental adviser to the city council. "They are bigger now and look different. These are changes that normally take millions of years of evolution."
There bigger and look different as they're using Kevlar vests! ;D
Or maybe they were originally living near a certain leaky Gov't facility in the city of Natanz.