{"id":3047,"date":"2016-04-21T01:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/21\/toilet-rat-bites-irish-mans-bum-prompting-city-wide-scare\/"},"modified":"2016-04-21T01:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:30:58","slug":"toilet-rat-bites-irish-mans-bum-prompting-city-wide-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/21\/toilet-rat-bites-irish-mans-bum-prompting-city-wide-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Toilet rat bites Irish man&#8217;s bum, prompting city-wide scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rat_in_sewage_pipe\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzIwLzc0L1JhdF9pbl9zZXdhLmNiYTE2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/74c5b79c\/74a\/Rat_in_sewage_pipe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Toilet+rat+bites+Irish+man%E2%80%99s+bum%2C+prompting+city-wide+scare&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F20%2Frat-bite-on-toilet%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F20%2Frat-bite-on-toilet%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 That old saying about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20716625\">you&#8217;re never further than six feet away from a rat<\/a>\u00a0at any time might be truer than you think.<\/p>\n<p>Even our precious, precious toilets are no longer safe.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/04\/rat-steals-chip-british-pub\/\">Intrepid rat scampers up man&#8217;s leg to steal chip in British pub<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>An unnamed resident of County Cork, Ireland, discovered this the hard way recently after he was bitten on the backside by a rat while using his toilet, the <i>Evening Echo<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveningecho.ie\/cork-news\/mind-bum-rat-bite-loo\/2014584\/\">reports<\/a>. If that isn&#8217;t the stuff of nightmares then frankly we don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The incident was discussed during a meeting at a Cork County Council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The flooding resulted in another problem for residents, that of rat infestations, which really upset many families, mentally and physically,&#8221; Councillor Noel Collins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveningecho.ie\/cork-news\/mind-bum-rat-bite-loo\/2014584\/\">said<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/20\/rat-bite-on-toilet\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/toilet\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Toilet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/rat-bite\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Rat Bite<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/ireland\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ireland<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/rat\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Rat<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1461170182' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1461170182'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/dM2sqVZ8ySA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 That old saying about how you&#8217;re never further than six feet away from a rat\u00a0at any time might be truer than you think. Even our precious, precious toilets are no longer safe. SEE ALSO: Intrepid rat scampers up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/21\/toilet-rat-bites-irish-mans-bum-prompting-city-wide-scare\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}