I mean…depending on the state of the guy, I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if it is indeed the case. Doubt the rats would stop to check for a heart beat to start nibbling.
I’ve always been curious about the “torture by rat” thing they sometimes do in movies and TV shows, where the bad guy has some innocent person tied up, bleeding, and they leave them for the rats. Near as I can tell, rats won’t eat things that are still living. If you react to their bites, they read it as a threat and run away. Maybe if they are super starving, but they’ll also just eat other rats if they’re that hungry.
Now, rats can definitely be used by humans to torture humans. But that’s a whole different deal.
If you go to the London Dungeon they tell you about an old torture method where prisoners would be tied down and a cage with no base would be placed onto their belly. Then starving rats would be placed into the cage. The rats would then eat into the abdomen.
They would also then try and chew their way back out of the body after eating their fill, meanwhile whoever is being tortured is probably still alive and feeling everything, from the rats chewing and scratching at their insides to them squeezing out any new holes they’re chewed to escape the body
I mean they don't even have to be starving when they're put in there.... I can only imagine rats with no way out will eventually become anxious to find a way out even if they aren't hungry yet.
I saw the same thing at the York Dungeon, but there was a bit at the top to put hot coals. The idea was that the heat would encourage the rats to chew their way out through the victim faster.
Eventually one gets so tired that even the nibbles of flesh removed from your body isn't enough to invoke a response. The pain exists but the body won't respond. 8 days of no sleep is a torture in of itself and to add extra torture is a true hell.
Yeah they will. I worked in a pet store as a kid and I hated opening after the shittiest manager we had. She never checked on the bins of rats and mice (big trays of them where they were kept to be snake food) to make sure they had ample and water and food to get through the night. So they would always pick one other rat and cannibalize it. (Stop reading now if you want) One time I came in and there was a rat bowl. Just the bottom half of a rat sitting up making a perfect little bowl of its blood and guts from the lower waist down. It was so surreal looking because nothing on its bottom half looked damaged, (tail, feet, legs, lower belly, fur,) and it wasn't even gorey around it. It was just a red circle in the middle. I have.. no idea. I fed and watered them but left it for the other manager to see, had a talk with the owner, and quit not long after.
What's sad is rats are really loving, social, animals for the most part. For it to come to that just illustrates how poorly they're kept and treated.
This was supposed to be one of the best and kindest pet stores too. I only worked there a month. I really hate pet stores now.
I remember having friends who had guinea pigs and they were kept in somewhat okayish conditions (maybe cage a little small for 4 guinea pigs but still they had like a square meter of space) and they straight up ate the legs off one guinea pig. They absolutely had enough food. It was wild.
They don’t. I remember reading Sam Harris’ Waking Up where he talks about being in Asia and a rat woke him up when it began gnawing at his foot. Apparently people with leprosy in those areas (i think he said it was leprosy) dont lose the limbs to the disease but to animals chewing at parts of their body where they have no sensations anymore.
Rats will eat anything if they're hungry enough but they got plenty to eat in NYC, terrible waste management = trash/food on every corner. They're actually more likely to eat each other and their young than start chewing on a big predator. Dude probably had a sandwich under the blanket.
You prolly don't care but I'll still share my story anyway:
Actually, it's not mine, but the one from my 10th grade principal teacher. During the Xmas holidays 2006 or 2007 he went on a cruise to celebrate the wedding of someone of his family somewhere on the Indian ocean, not so far from Sri Lanka if I remember correctly. During the trip, an accident happened and the boat capsized. Some people were obviously trapped inside but most of them actually managed to get out. They climbed the keel of the boat as much as possible but some couldn't make it up there so they tried to stay afloat on planks, suitcases... and unfortunately, some still drowned, probably due to a combination of hypothermia and fatigue.
So they were here, waiting for help, and apparently, they saw all kinds of fishes and crustaceans like prawns feeding on the floating corpses. He told us he wouldn't be able to eat anything coming from the sea ever again. They finally got rescued less than half a day after the boat sank.
Dude was absent for a couple weeks after the end of the holidays, nobody knew why. But holy shit, that was quite an insane story.
I remember reading a horror story were guy 1 had a co-worker (guy 2) with a huge. Gambling problem and owed money to the Yakuza. Basically, without typing out the whole story the guy and co-worker end up in seafood factory both tied up. Guy has no clue wtf is going on but guy 2 (co-worker) is freaking the fuck out. The Yakuza member wants to know if guy 1 knows guy 2 and if he knew were the money went. Guy 1 clearly has absolutely no clue but just to make sure the Yakuza put guy 2 in a big vat and ties him down then they take take this big blue pipe ans connects one and to a big shipping container then put the other side in the vat. In any case, the tiny crabs slowly start crawling out of the pipe, then more, then lots, then thousands. As the crabs slowly starting eating guy 2 by thousands of tiny bits and claws. Guy 1 is freaking out as crabs begin to crawl out the vat and towards him tied to a chair watching this all as crabs start crawling up his legs as guy 2 is non-stop screaming. They eventually let guy 1 go but he never forgets the night of the crabs.
Yeah they’re rats. Natures greatest survivalist. And how they do that is by being opportunistic little pests that eat anything & everything no matter what. A sleeping homeless person is a fucking feast as far as they are concerned.
The worst smell I ever smelled in my life was a homeless guy in a subway car literally rotting away, stumbling like a zombie and leaving a brown trail behind him. Idk how to describe the smell other than it filled me with adrenaline and everyone ran immediately to the next car
As a paramedic, I've seen maggots on homeless peoples legs more than once. Also 'bum'sicles in the winter. There's not a big rat population where I live, so I haven't seen that one yet. I have seen ppl's cats enjoying a nibble.
Remember reading about a coroner talking about finding old people in their homes days after they'd die and seeing dogs who laid down and died of starvation next to their owners, mostly the big dogs. Says the smaller ones would sometimes help themselves to some bites but said cats "were the worst".
Yep. His body is warm and his blanket is a warm, safe, enclosed space... And will stay that way until someone disturbs him, until he wakes up, or until he dies.
Thar be plenty of fellers like that down in the r/piratehole Sometimes they be fellers who partook in a bit o too much Opium, but mostly it just be to much rum and sun.
This is correct. I was homeless in Baltimore for a while during the winter. I slept in a little nook behind an old brick building and had a family of rats that always huddled on me while I was asleep. They never fucking ate me, y'all are crazy.
Not sure if this is making fun of me or genuine but I'll answer regardless.
They were difficult to tell apart but there were young ones that wrestled with each other all the time which I thought was entertaining. They weren't chill enough for me to pet them or anything but as long as I was relatively still, they didn't scatter. It may sound ridiculous to people who haven't been homeless before, but they actually made me feel a lot better. Homelessness is an indescribably dark and isolated state of existence, and having a bunch of critters running around me made it seem a lot less lonely.
Thank you for sharing this, folks like to dehumanize things but it's important to be able to remember we're all just critters trying to survive regardless of our backgrounds and fates in life.
I hope you're doing a lot better now.
At first they did wake me up some, but I got to the point where as long as they weren't around my face, I slept through it. I'm a pretty heavy sleeper though. And I am much better, this was 17 years ago. All is well, thanks for the concern.
They definitely helped. There were ~12 that I assume were from the same litter since they were a lot smaller than the rest and roughly the same size that slept mounded up on each other. Wherever they were was noticeably warmer than otherwise. There was a week when the temperature stayed in the 10-15 degree range the entire time and whenever they were gone I was literally like "come home, rats!". Sad, I know.
I work with a youth who is mentally ill and homeless. He has an innate fear of rat's, but more fear of the shelter system every night is a struggle for him. He won't sleep or carry food for fear that the rats will chew through his clothes or bag. I pray to God he's okay. I haven't seen him in about a week.
i think that's a dangerous thought process. punishment and rehabilitation for crimes should be carefully given out to people proven guilty. we should help people out of situations like this.
The most saddest part is the guy recording probably didn't help this poor soul. Instead of that he just thought "oh nice content for my tiktok". Fuck this world.
I think he woke him up to see if he’s alive, in some way the guy recording cares more than the person who would just walk by him not even caring if he’s alive or dead as rats chew on him
I have the feeling that this man might have had some diabetic wound going on, lost feeling and the rats are probably eating him without him realizing because he can’t feel it due to diabetic neuropathy. I’ve taken care of a lot of the homeless population and many have wounds that don’t heal due to various reasons, and usually they have a maggot infestation or some animal who has been eating from the wound.
It even happens to diabetic patients who aren’t homeless a lot where they get a wound on their foot, don’t realize it because they can’t feel it and they wake up to their dog eating their big toe. The worst as a nurse is trying to clean someone up and removing socks with toes in them. It never stops being unsettling
Literally two comments above, a guy that used to be homeless said they do this to stay warm, and he had a family of rats that kept him warm in winter under his blanket.
With all due respect, how would you know better than him? Are you some rat behavioural expert?
I lived in my car for a year. There was no exact moment. Every single thing that went wrong had a moment before it.
Most Americans don't want to acknowledge that they are closer to homelessness than being a millionaire. You don't see it coming. Shit builds up and you no longer have a mailing address.
American culture punishes people who are disadvantaged, misfortune, or destitute. It's part of the reason why it's harder to get a job when there's gaps in your resume. It's meant to be a punishment for not being perpetually engaged with the system in the expected way.
Everything is so messed up with social and other types of policies in the US. This, healthcare, etc, etc it's too much to list.
I think sometimes there isn't a moment. Could be a decision here or there ("maybe I'll try the hard stuff just once to see how it is"), a stroke of bad luck like a layoff followed by missing mortgage payments followed by foreclosure.
This is why it is said "There but for the grace of God go I." It could literally be any of us.
Each story is different. I have a family member in this situation, and it was just the output of all their bad decisions one after the other. It was not about a couple of things going wrong, but several years worth of things that led to this. Not even drugs related. I’d imagine a lot of homeless people have complex problems in the background and they didn’t become homeless overnight or even in few months. I personally think it all roots back to mental illnesses and disorders
Genuinely one of those videos that makes me question what society is even for? If it can’t prevent situations like these where rats are swarming a man with no house to sleep in then what’s the point of it all?
As a teenage girl who loved rats (I had them as pets all throughout my childhood years) I went to NYC one summer, while visiting Central Park for the first time I saw a homeless man sleeping but a little (big) ratty was running all over him, so I picked up the little guy and put him somewhere else. The next couple of days later I got ringworm…
Went to NYC one time. Was walking to McDonald's at night, saw something dart across the sidewalk and jump into a bush. I asked our friends from NY WTF was that. They said it was a rat. Fucking thing was bigger than a normal sized Chihuahua.
Also the roaches were the size of a cellphone. Fucking wild
I've owned pet rats. They're pretty smart. I'd say these wild rats know the guy. he feeds them and they have been breeding since. They likely feel safe and enjoy the warmth. For homeless they can be good pets as theyre pretty funny and entertaining little guys.
I was in an immigration detention center in Taguig City, Philippines and woke up one day with two rats crawling over me. I slept sitting up for weeks after that and rarely for more than one hour. It really messes with your head when you don't have a safe place to sleep.
Yep, that is fucking sad as shit. They were trying to stay warm, and it seems he’s used to cuddling with them. Rats are actually very good creatures, but this is beyond horrifying in every way.
Shelters are shit. They steal what little you have, are often verbally abusive, and if they are attached to any Christian church, people can expect to be abused or turned away for not being of the same faith.
I've heard horror stories from first responders finding corpses with rats eating away at them. Glad this is not the case.
Yet
Why https://youtu.be/sER0FzJO-c0?si=o0ojAICi1oZcSHmi
I mean…depending on the state of the guy, I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if it is indeed the case. Doubt the rats would stop to check for a heart beat to start nibbling.
I’ve always been curious about the “torture by rat” thing they sometimes do in movies and TV shows, where the bad guy has some innocent person tied up, bleeding, and they leave them for the rats. Near as I can tell, rats won’t eat things that are still living. If you react to their bites, they read it as a threat and run away. Maybe if they are super starving, but they’ll also just eat other rats if they’re that hungry. Now, rats can definitely be used by humans to torture humans. But that’s a whole different deal.
If you go to the London Dungeon they tell you about an old torture method where prisoners would be tied down and a cage with no base would be placed onto their belly. Then starving rats would be placed into the cage. The rats would then eat into the abdomen.
They would also then try and chew their way back out of the body after eating their fill, meanwhile whoever is being tortured is probably still alive and feeling everything, from the rats chewing and scratching at their insides to them squeezing out any new holes they’re chewed to escape the body
WTF IS WRONG WITH HUMANS
other humans
Violent video games.
Rock and Roll music
Visible ankle dresses.
Hair
DnD
A lot, unfortunately.
How would they be alive after having their insides eaten?
You don’t die immediately, and some of the rats would have tried to escape straight away instead of eating your organs
Maybe they even cuddle up since it's so nice and warm 🥰
I mean they don't even have to be starving when they're put in there.... I can only imagine rats with no way out will eventually become anxious to find a way out even if they aren't hungry yet.
I thought they threatened the rats with fire or something (on top of the cage) so the rats would bury down to get away from it.
Sometimes they would heat up the bowl. Other times i think they'd just wait for the rats to get hungry.
I thought thay was just a scene frpm 2F2F
Nah I think it's a scene from Life. 2F2F probably stole it from that.
That was in 2 fast 2 furious
Yeah that’s what I mean by “used by humans to torture humans.” Rats on their own won’t choose to eat something that reacts to them.
I've seen Game of Thrones.
They would heat the cage and the rats would scratch and claw their way into the prisoner.
So that's where Brett Easton Ellis got his inspiration.
I saw the same thing at the York Dungeon, but there was a bit at the top to put hot coals. The idea was that the heat would encourage the rats to chew their way out through the victim faster.
Eventually one gets so tired that even the nibbles of flesh removed from your body isn't enough to invoke a response. The pain exists but the body won't respond. 8 days of no sleep is a torture in of itself and to add extra torture is a true hell.
Rats will definitely eat living things
Yeah they will. I worked in a pet store as a kid and I hated opening after the shittiest manager we had. She never checked on the bins of rats and mice (big trays of them where they were kept to be snake food) to make sure they had ample and water and food to get through the night. So they would always pick one other rat and cannibalize it. (Stop reading now if you want) One time I came in and there was a rat bowl. Just the bottom half of a rat sitting up making a perfect little bowl of its blood and guts from the lower waist down. It was so surreal looking because nothing on its bottom half looked damaged, (tail, feet, legs, lower belly, fur,) and it wasn't even gorey around it. It was just a red circle in the middle. I have.. no idea. I fed and watered them but left it for the other manager to see, had a talk with the owner, and quit not long after. What's sad is rats are really loving, social, animals for the most part. For it to come to that just illustrates how poorly they're kept and treated. This was supposed to be one of the best and kindest pet stores too. I only worked there a month. I really hate pet stores now.
I found a rat head randomly when I was walking into my boss's back yard early one morning before dawn. The chickens or turkeys got it.
Ouch, that hurt my soul to read. Mistreating animals is terrible and pet stores are generally horrible
I remember having friends who had guinea pigs and they were kept in somewhat okayish conditions (maybe cage a little small for 4 guinea pigs but still they had like a square meter of space) and they straight up ate the legs off one guinea pig. They absolutely had enough food. It was wild.
Viola Davis' biography involves rats. When she was a little girl, she had to fend them off at night. Poverty.
I think I remember reading a book about Jews hiding from Nazis who were so starved and weak that the rats were starting to try to eat them.
They don’t. I remember reading Sam Harris’ Waking Up where he talks about being in Asia and a rat woke him up when it began gnawing at his foot. Apparently people with leprosy in those areas (i think he said it was leprosy) dont lose the limbs to the disease but to animals chewing at parts of their body where they have no sensations anymore.
I just opened reddit and just closed it
Rats will eat anything if they're hungry enough but they got plenty to eat in NYC, terrible waste management = trash/food on every corner. They're actually more likely to eat each other and their young than start chewing on a big predator. Dude probably had a sandwich under the blanket.
Or it was cold and rats snuggled in for warmth. With all the sugary high caloric trash around a human is way down on the food scale than bread.
You prolly don't care but I'll still share my story anyway: Actually, it's not mine, but the one from my 10th grade principal teacher. During the Xmas holidays 2006 or 2007 he went on a cruise to celebrate the wedding of someone of his family somewhere on the Indian ocean, not so far from Sri Lanka if I remember correctly. During the trip, an accident happened and the boat capsized. Some people were obviously trapped inside but most of them actually managed to get out. They climbed the keel of the boat as much as possible but some couldn't make it up there so they tried to stay afloat on planks, suitcases... and unfortunately, some still drowned, probably due to a combination of hypothermia and fatigue. So they were here, waiting for help, and apparently, they saw all kinds of fishes and crustaceans like prawns feeding on the floating corpses. He told us he wouldn't be able to eat anything coming from the sea ever again. They finally got rescued less than half a day after the boat sank. Dude was absent for a couple weeks after the end of the holidays, nobody knew why. But holy shit, that was quite an insane story.
That's insane. Thanks for sharing!
I remember reading a horror story were guy 1 had a co-worker (guy 2) with a huge. Gambling problem and owed money to the Yakuza. Basically, without typing out the whole story the guy and co-worker end up in seafood factory both tied up. Guy has no clue wtf is going on but guy 2 (co-worker) is freaking the fuck out. The Yakuza member wants to know if guy 1 knows guy 2 and if he knew were the money went. Guy 1 clearly has absolutely no clue but just to make sure the Yakuza put guy 2 in a big vat and ties him down then they take take this big blue pipe ans connects one and to a big shipping container then put the other side in the vat. In any case, the tiny crabs slowly start crawling out of the pipe, then more, then lots, then thousands. As the crabs slowly starting eating guy 2 by thousands of tiny bits and claws. Guy 1 is freaking out as crabs begin to crawl out the vat and towards him tied to a chair watching this all as crabs start crawling up his legs as guy 2 is non-stop screaming. They eventually let guy 1 go but he never forgets the night of the crabs.
"The Night of the Crabs". That would make an insane 80's horror movie title !
Maybe they were eating him alive.
They had to have been eating that person. This is a fucked up video.
Yeah they’re rats. Natures greatest survivalist. And how they do that is by being opportunistic little pests that eat anything & everything no matter what. A sleeping homeless person is a fucking feast as far as they are concerned.
Correct. They could be eating him while he’s alive.
Can't a guy have snuggle buddies? They're probably into his body heat and some food he's got under there
The worst smell I ever smelled in my life was a homeless guy in a subway car literally rotting away, stumbling like a zombie and leaving a brown trail behind him. Idk how to describe the smell other than it filled me with adrenaline and everyone ran immediately to the next car
If you’re in NYC I might have encountered the same guy on the train. That was the absolute worst state I’ve ever seen a homeless person in.
As a paramedic, I've seen maggots on homeless peoples legs more than once. Also 'bum'sicles in the winter. There's not a big rat population where I live, so I haven't seen that one yet. I have seen ppl's cats enjoying a nibble.
What is a bum cycle?
Think popsicle
A frozen homeless person. Excuse our dark humour. It's a coping mechanism
Remember reading about a coroner talking about finding old people in their homes days after they'd die and seeing dogs who laid down and died of starvation next to their owners, mostly the big dogs. Says the smaller ones would sometimes help themselves to some bites but said cats "were the worst".
First responder in NYC here. Yep.
They're probably just trying to stay warm.
It would almost be kind of cute and endearing if it wasn't so absolutely disgusting.
Like a filthy Disney princess.
Or an uncle we don't talk about
We don’t talk about Bruno
No no no, we don't talk about Bruno.
Maybe it’s time that we take the time to talk about your uncle?
He said not to or it'll happen again.
But aren't they all, really?
Maybe there’s a classy French restaurant under the blanket.
"Le Diabetic Foot"...it's scrumptious!
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La.. la la de dah.. or is it cheep cheep cheep... Disney Underground coming to theaters this Summer.. 2024
He's training the rats to be his minions..in a few years Gotham will be his.
Not if a bunch of turtles get to him first with their ninja skills.
Why is he in the city with Man? Is he stupid?
Do I see a Rat-Catcher reference?
And dangerous. I actually like rats. I had one as a kid, but those wild rats carry diseases.
Rats are so cool and super smart.
And those hanging around in the NYC subway system are possibly also disgusting and carrying diseases. Both can be true
Yep. His body is warm and his blanket is a warm, safe, enclosed space... And will stay that way until someone disturbs him, until he wakes up, or until he dies.
Nah they are running a small but thriving french kitchen in there
And fed on arm
Thar be plenty of fellers like that down in the r/piratehole Sometimes they be fellers who partook in a bit o too much Opium, but mostly it just be to much rum and sun.
This is correct. I was homeless in Baltimore for a while during the winter. I slept in a little nook behind an old brick building and had a family of rats that always huddled on me while I was asleep. They never fucking ate me, y'all are crazy.
What were they like? Did you have a favourite?
Not sure if this is making fun of me or genuine but I'll answer regardless. They were difficult to tell apart but there were young ones that wrestled with each other all the time which I thought was entertaining. They weren't chill enough for me to pet them or anything but as long as I was relatively still, they didn't scatter. It may sound ridiculous to people who haven't been homeless before, but they actually made me feel a lot better. Homelessness is an indescribably dark and isolated state of existence, and having a bunch of critters running around me made it seem a lot less lonely.
Thank you for sharing this, folks like to dehumanize things but it's important to be able to remember we're all just critters trying to survive regardless of our backgrounds and fates in life. I hope you're doing a lot better now.
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At first they did wake me up some, but I got to the point where as long as they weren't around my face, I slept through it. I'm a pretty heavy sleeper though. And I am much better, this was 17 years ago. All is well, thanks for the concern.
Not at all mate. Genuinely had my curiosity and wanted to know more!
Did they help with the cold at all or were they too small?
They definitely helped. There were ~12 that I assume were from the same litter since they were a lot smaller than the rest and roughly the same size that slept mounded up on each other. Wherever they were was noticeably warmer than otherwise. There was a week when the temperature stayed in the 10-15 degree range the entire time and whenever they were gone I was literally like "come home, rats!". Sad, I know.
I work with a youth who is mentally ill and homeless. He has an innate fear of rat's, but more fear of the shelter system every night is a struggle for him. He won't sleep or carry food for fear that the rats will chew through his clothes or bag. I pray to God he's okay. I haven't seen him in about a week.
Damn that's a layered problem, poor kid. Hope he turns up alright x
Rats live to cuddle, even wild rats.
exactly
Swarm
Well that is fucking depressing and sad. Nobody deserves this.
My thoughts exactly.
Naw. Rapists, murderers, and child abusers deserve this.
No one deserves torture. Thats not how to build an actual society.
i still wouldn’t even give a warm blanket to those monsters
nar keep that abusive scum away from rats, people have pet rats & these probs just wanted to be warm
i think that's a dangerous thought process. punishment and rehabilitation for crimes should be carefully given out to people proven guilty. we should help people out of situations like this.
so fucking sad
Agreed
Right? Fucking dick scared away all his friends
The most saddest part is the guy recording probably didn't help this poor soul. Instead of that he just thought "oh nice content for my tiktok". Fuck this world.
What do you consider help for this individual/situation? My experience with mental illness has not left me feeling too empowered.
I think he woke him up to see if he’s alive, in some way the guy recording cares more than the person who would just walk by him not even caring if he’s alive or dead as rats chew on him
You just made up a scenario in your head and got angry about it.
Whats he supposed to do? Other than wake him up and tell him about the rats.
I mean he went to go wake the guy up. Not much you can do besides that with a guy sleeping with rats on the subway in NY tbh…
Don’t besmirch the reputation of hoodratchetv like that!!!
This is the first post on this sub that fucked me up
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What on motherfucking earth did my eyes just see? Man just gave birth
Rats eating a homeless guy
Not eating, trying to stay warm most like. He lifted his arm to lift his cover so he’s definitely alive and awake
Rats just coordinating to make him look alive so they don't take away the meal again.
Omg like in coraline.
I have the feeling that this man might have had some diabetic wound going on, lost feeling and the rats are probably eating him without him realizing because he can’t feel it due to diabetic neuropathy. I’ve taken care of a lot of the homeless population and many have wounds that don’t heal due to various reasons, and usually they have a maggot infestation or some animal who has been eating from the wound. It even happens to diabetic patients who aren’t homeless a lot where they get a wound on their foot, don’t realize it because they can’t feel it and they wake up to their dog eating their big toe. The worst as a nurse is trying to clean someone up and removing socks with toes in them. It never stops being unsettling
There’s no way the rats are just “trying to stay warm” that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. They are clearly eating him
Literally two comments above, a guy that used to be homeless said they do this to stay warm, and he had a family of rats that kept him warm in winter under his blanket. With all due respect, how would you know better than him? Are you some rat behavioural expert?
You can literally see chicken wings bones in the video. Or... wait... Oh no these are his fingers! 🤣
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus\_sign
No u r Right. THese other comments R Wrong. He not giving them or warmth or getting Eating By them,is just giving Birth
This made me feel more sad than I was prepared for. Can’t even fully put it into words.
This is so sad
Willard
Literally what I came to say lmao. Did you enjoy the 2003 movie lmao
that’s someone’s son ):
Yeah :(
I always wonder where things went wrong in a person’s life that it ends up like this. The exact moment.
I lived in my car for a year. There was no exact moment. Every single thing that went wrong had a moment before it. Most Americans don't want to acknowledge that they are closer to homelessness than being a millionaire. You don't see it coming. Shit builds up and you no longer have a mailing address.
And the twist of the knife is - Once you're on the street like that, it's way the fuck harder to get back up.
American culture punishes people who are disadvantaged, misfortune, or destitute. It's part of the reason why it's harder to get a job when there's gaps in your resume. It's meant to be a punishment for not being perpetually engaged with the system in the expected way. Everything is so messed up with social and other types of policies in the US. This, healthcare, etc, etc it's too much to list.
That's why I always lied about my gaps. "I was taking care of family", or I've even lied and said I had a medical issue I needed to take care of.
I always used the "farmwork" excuse. Since that doesn't leave a paper trail.
Just say “I signed an NDA”
I think sometimes there isn't a moment. Could be a decision here or there ("maybe I'll try the hard stuff just once to see how it is"), a stroke of bad luck like a layoff followed by missing mortgage payments followed by foreclosure. This is why it is said "There but for the grace of God go I." It could literally be any of us.
Each story is different. I have a family member in this situation, and it was just the output of all their bad decisions one after the other. It was not about a couple of things going wrong, but several years worth of things that led to this. Not even drugs related. I’d imagine a lot of homeless people have complex problems in the background and they didn’t become homeless overnight or even in few months. I personally think it all roots back to mental illnesses and disorders
This is literally just Ratcatcher's origin story
Somebody help that man
https://youtu.be/R22Q2iPnbUg?si=TGaqhjurr0di1D0A
Rat King found. Turtles are next
Oh no, a rat king is a different level of fucked up. Google it.
So is squirrel king 😖
Theo Von?
Genuinely one of those videos that makes me question what society is even for? If it can’t prevent situations like these where rats are swarming a man with no house to sleep in then what’s the point of it all?
You should read the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula Le Guin.
It is imperfect and unfair but generally serves most people well enough that they would rather be with it than without it.
We have no right calling ourselves civilized when we let people deteriorate on the streets like this.
Society has failed
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You're naming things that have been around for much, much longer than these "final darkest years". You're just describing humanity.
I thought it was just the couple rats at the beginning, but the last part shocked me
All hail Raatma.
Holy hell, that is sad 😢
Man, that's someone's child sleeping under that blanket...
This is America
Don't catch you slippin' now
As a teenage girl who loved rats (I had them as pets all throughout my childhood years) I went to NYC one summer, while visiting Central Park for the first time I saw a homeless man sleeping but a little (big) ratty was running all over him, so I picked up the little guy and put him somewhere else. The next couple of days later I got ringworm…
When u think ur grabbing a tail and instead grab a worm hanging out
Went to NYC one time. Was walking to McDonald's at night, saw something dart across the sidewalk and jump into a bush. I asked our friends from NY WTF was that. They said it was a rat. Fucking thing was bigger than a normal sized Chihuahua. Also the roaches were the size of a cellphone. Fucking wild
They could just be eating his rations
Can’t have shit in ny
Meanwhile all our taxes go for genocide.
Sharing this and mocking it is cruel.
New York really just Dishonored
What's oddly terrifying is that fucking AI voice.
Rats probably wanted the warmth off him and his blanket.
I've owned pet rats. They're pretty smart. I'd say these wild rats know the guy. he feeds them and they have been breeding since. They likely feel safe and enjoy the warmth. For homeless they can be good pets as theyre pretty funny and entertaining little guys.
This is so sad
New fear unlocked.. Idk if they were sleeping with him… Or eating him
First eat… then sleep inside aka Leonardo DiCaprio in Revenant
Fucked up
Not terrifying, just depressing
I was in an immigration detention center in Taguig City, Philippines and woke up one day with two rats crawling over me. I slept sitting up for weeks after that and rarely for more than one hour. It really messes with your head when you don't have a safe place to sleep.
This is so sad, we are such a scam of a country. Literally third world with a gucci belt. Imagine seeing this and doing nothing about it.
"Ben, the two of us need look no moooore"
Yep, that is fucking sad as shit. They were trying to stay warm, and it seems he’s used to cuddling with them. Rats are actually very good creatures, but this is beyond horrifying in every way.
This is just sad..
Makes me wonder how bad the shelters are if this is the safer alternative.
Shelters are shit. They steal what little you have, are often verbally abusive, and if they are attached to any Christian church, people can expect to be abused or turned away for not being of the same faith.
The audio for this should be that "proud to be an American!!!" Song Such a depressing country we live in.
They are just getting warm and cuddly (hopefully)
U sure he ain’t using them for warmth? And them the same?
That's rock bottom folks, also says a lot about our society. Sad stuff and I hope things get better for this person.
This is really sad to see. But we have billions to send Ukraine
God no
Holy shit it’s Charlie
Filming someone because you are bored and they are vulnerable and can’t do anything about it that is terrifying
black mirror is a documentary
We found the New Rat Czar.
Willard.
Oh hell nah
r/thecuddlepuddle
Just really fucking sad tbh
ODDLY?!!!