Did you guys hear that Paris, France has a really bad rat problem right now? No, not this kind of rat…
When the news of the day are centered around Paul Bocuse’s death and the rats of Paris taking over the city, there’s only one thing to do: watch Ratatouille ? pic.twitter.com/WzYiTEUafV
— exhausted ? (@ShirmirArt) January 26, 2018
…this kind:
Paris flooded with rats in wake of torrential rains https://t.co/i42MnoJyTJ pic.twitter.com/YqEPWLBlpG
— Travel + Leisure (@TravelLeisure) January 26, 2018
And folks are taking to social media and posting videos of their encounters with the rats. Like these rats attacking a garbage can:
Rats scamper outside the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris as flooding, caused by the River Seine, forces the rodents out onto the streets. https://t.co/ZhTgYho9Tv pic.twitter.com/CpzzoQs0Se
— ABC News (@ABC) January 24, 2018
And these rats hanging out next to Notre Dame cathedral:
https://twitter.com/LucyKafanov/status/956324916365877249
Mind you, these are some freaky big rats, too:
https://twitter.com/WorldWideNewsEU/status/957003518770073601
Rats reportedly even attacked sanitation workers just trying to do their jobs:
“A colleague told me that a rat had jumped to his throat and another to his arm.”
Because it’s 2018, the workers filmed the rats, of course:
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https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/955140768431296513
Oh, and a bunch of baboons got loose at the Paris Zoo on Friday, too:
Dozens of baboons escaped from their enclosure at the Paris zoo, prompting the evacuation of the park: https://t.co/gcZpBNz49X pic.twitter.com/FsZR12jVxr
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 26, 2018
WTF is happening in France that the animals know and the humans do not?!
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In other news, this is what happened after there was a big sale on Nutella in France https://t.co/j4MeyE1PZi
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 26, 2018
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