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Conundrum

Fri Jan 25 2013, 07:04AM

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Da-FUQ... Never heard of rats eating a car before.

I've had cables munched by rats before, but this was swiftly dealt with.

Anyone else got pictures of rodent damaged equipment, mould damage, etc?
Post them here.

-A

Houdini0118

Fri Jan 25 2013, 07:08AM

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"Rats appear to have got into the car and caused Â£1,200 worth of damage to the wiring and seatbelt." Whats unusual about that? I mean if they ate the engine block that would be weird but rats cause damage to wiring in houses all the time a car wouldnt be that much different.

Proud Mary

Fri Jan 25 2013, 08:13PM

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This story shows exemplary initiative and enterprise in the rats. They weren't afraid of hard work, but were prepared to labour all night long, striving to tear off the insulation with their teeth while others were shirking at home in bed.

Carbon_Rod

Sat Jan 26 2013, 02:06AM

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Some rodents like the taste of Kevlar, and telecoms who bury regular fiber-optic lines will discover this fact rather quickly. Rat teeth are always growing, and overtime they can tunnel through just about anything.

However, the theory of intelligence and judgement of cognitive deficiency is complex:

Conundrum

Sat Jan 26 2013, 10:19AM

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Heh.
I discussed this with someone yesterday, and it appears that perhaps the rats aren't just gnawing at random.
They genuinely seem to "know" instinctively which wires don't carry voltages, perhaps the whiskers alert them to imminent electrocution.
Corollary to Conundrum's General Theory of Rodent Electrocognition, it doesen't seem to work if the wire is only energised some of the time as I found out when gutting that microwave... ew!

Ash Small

Sat Jan 26 2013, 11:58AM

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Conundrum wrote ...

I discussed this with someone yesterday, and it appears that perhaps the rats aren't just gnawing at random.

Now, if we could train them to just chew half an inch of insulation from the end of each wire........

Tetris

Sun Jan 27 2013, 05:17PM

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In my house, rats never chewed up the wires. My two cats, Papu and Mitu did. Especially Papu. Now they're big cats now, but when they were kittens, so many wires in our house got frayed and stuff, and my dad and I had to be the ones to fix them. I'm glad they stopped now.

I'm just waiting for the day I'll pick up a tesla coil secondary to find a giant spider sitting inside it. I'd go running screaming "spi'erspi'erspi'er!"

Conundrum

Wed Jan 30 2013, 07:11PM

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I know someone whose broadband cable keeps getting rabbitted...

Josh Campbell

Wed Jan 30 2013, 07:54PM

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I worked at as a bench repair tech working on satellite receivers and audio amplifiers during school. Most of the receivers were from commercial venues all over the country. Every once and a while we would get one full of roaches. I guess they went in to get warm and were to dumb to leave. They would die on the boards and stuff would ooze all over the board. Electrolysis between leads would cause corrosion and bubbling, sometimes it was so bad that foamy stuff would be coming out the sides of the receiver. Needless to say those were immediately thrown out and marked as unrepairable. Those receivers usually smelled like fast food, which is why I still don't eat that.

Conundrum wrote ...

I know someone whose broadband cable keeps getting rabbitted...

Sure it's not squirrels? Those little bastards eat my cable all the time! They chew up aluminum shielding and housings like it's candy to keep their teeth from getting to long.

Conundrum

Sun Feb 24 2013, 02:02PM

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In this case the "fail" is retarded Cu$toms muppets who seem to be clueless enough not to even know how to close a bow case properly.
Calling them Neanderthals is an insult to that brave and artistic race of hominids, they are closer to velociraptors.
(gets off soapbox)

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