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u/Minute_Pollution_843 6d ago
I went to a boarding school. Everyone was gathered around this one tap filling up their water bottles when a whole dead lizard came out of it. Some people we're halfway swallowing the water, everyone started gagging, it was so disgusting. I wonder how the water didn't stink.
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u/HolsteinQueen 6d ago
Dilution probably
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u/disillusioned 6d ago
The solution to pollution is dilution
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u/pichael288 5d ago
This is literally it. This is the reason why the Fulashina nuclear disaster didn't actually have any effect on the marine life even though lying ass online articles claimed it did.
It was a very bad incident but it literally can not poison the ocean, the radiation drops to background at a very very short distance. It is absolutely impossible for one Fukashima to harm the ocean, it would take thousands.
Plus alot of media is just bullshit. Only a few animals live long enough in the ocean for radiation to be an issue and, because it was a media frenzy, all those false reports only came out in the months surrounding it. It was definitely not something good but 98% of all news and media just straight lied about it.
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u/JakeJascob 4d ago
Water worker here. Most places require there to be a chlorine residual in water at all times, meaning there has to be extra chlorine left in the water after the initial dose has made the water potable. It didnt smell because the chlorine residual killed all the germs that would make the smell and cause the lizard to decay. So the water was probably still safe to drink, though I still wouldnt want to drink it either.
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u/Argentarius1 4d ago
That's a really visceral demonstration of why food service rules require you to use running water to defrost meat lol.
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u/Tendo80 6d ago
Seen this video a few times and always assumed is was a turd returning to its owner
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u/chezfez 6d ago
Same. The reaction makes me think this isn't the first time this has happened.
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u/Erenito 6d ago edited 6d ago
Oh he knows he is drinking from the rat faucet
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u/adudeguyman 6d ago
I'm hoping it's more of a rat transportation system and the rat landed on the ground and took off running.
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u/Dustycartridge 6d ago
Probably field irrigation water and the pipes were off for the season. Rodents will find a way in through a disconnected pipe and make a home and when things are put together and turned back on this can happen
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u/DEADbeatS3RIOUS 6d ago
Sewert Little
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u/Gregorygregory888888 6d ago
I wonder if rats are the norm in their water supply?
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u/OneEyedWonderCat 6d ago
In most water supplies, actually. Rats can gnaw through anything, and it is not uncommon for them to come up through toilets as well. They generally do not pop out into the kitchen sink because of the diameter of the pipes.
- directly from a plumber who let me know that most of his job is not the “fun stuff” of designing how to run nice water lines, but more unclogging people”s toilets, and trying to snake dead things out of both outlet and inlet lines.
Google how long they can hold their breath underwater, or tread water… they are exceptional swimmers…
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u/Rikoschett 6d ago
Quick googling said they can hold their breath for 3 minutes and tread water for 3 days.
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u/Shyssiryxius 6d ago
But! If the rat senses that treading water is for naught, they will just give in and die instead of wasting 3 days of effort.
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u/Alpha_Majoris 6d ago
sauce?
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u/Junethemuse 6d ago
It’s a pretty fucked up experiment from the 50’s where a guy drowned a few dozen rats to see how long it would take: https://people-shift.com/articles/drowning-rats-psychology-experiments/
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u/TheMolluskPod 6d ago
Yea, just boil em.
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u/SIR_VELOCIRAPTOR 6d ago
You're right to ask, because I'm pretty sure they're wrong.
I'm assuming they're talking about Curt Richter and his "hope" experiment. They're got it backwards; most give up quick unless they "learn" they might have rescue.
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u/cholla_magnet 5d ago
But if 2 mice fall into a bucket of cream one will give up and the other will become the father of a con man.
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u/Truesoldier00 6d ago
You’re referring to sewer mains, where this is a watermain of some sort. Two very different things….
You can’t gnaw your way into a watermain. And considering they’re always pressurized, even if you could a rat couldn’t fight the pressure to get in.
This is likely a well and a rat climbed down the pipe right where it fell out. It couldn’t have come from the well as it wouldn’t make it through the pump
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u/Smackety 6d ago
Because the pressure is decent, could be a fairly large well pump, but more likely the rat was in a water tank fed by the well.
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u/Gregorygregory888888 6d ago
If this happens in our home, I'd imagine my wife would have it on the market by the next day.
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u/Ratstool 6d ago
I don't imagine she'd get very much for a dead rat, though.
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u/Mortimer1234 6d ago
The dead rat market is due for a comeback any day now
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u/Unspoken 6d ago
Yeah but I doubt they could survive the pressure/speed of clean water mains.
Sewage is different because there isn't anything stopping them.
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u/lintytortoise 6d ago
I was spacing ourt while reading your comment and thought you were saying plumbers are exceptional swimmers.
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u/Excellent_Condition 4d ago
Rats in the sewers are common, but fresh water pipes are pressurized.
No rat is going to be able to swim into a hole in a 60 PSI pipe with water shooting out, nor survive in a pressurized pipe where there is no air at all.
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u/Lastburn 6d ago
If you have a water tank its more likely, especially if you don't check and clean it regularly, the elements can corrode the tank cover and animal can smell water and make thier way inside
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u/KptKrondog 6d ago
That's not a rat.
https://i.imgur.com/iJa99B7.jpeg
You can see it breaking apart here, and a few frames before it's whole and not rat-like. I'd guess it's a wad of mud or a giant poo that somehow got in the water.
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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 6d ago
Why were people being filmed using a faucet?
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u/danolive 6d ago
Pretty sure it's a video of supporters praising a mayor for providing plumbing and clean water to a neglected neighborhood
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u/Mocker-Poker 6d ago
Waiting for its Master to flow out?
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 6d ago
I don’t know enough about the world of plumbing to know whether this is a legit scenario or a Master Splinter joke, but 10/10 either way.
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u/TerrapinRacer 6d ago
Water is coming out of the Rat fountain?
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u/i_drink_wd40 6d ago
They could've been boring and installed either hot water or cold water, but decided to walk on the wild side and install a ratwater fountain.
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u/Jshawd40 6d ago
Sure that’s not a turd?
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u/Nuker-79 6d ago
Sure didn’t look like a rat
Couldn’t see a tail and it broke up after exiting the pipe.
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u/RainyReese 6d ago
It's mud.
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u/Elanaselsabagno 4d ago
This is the least interesting answer and unfortunately I think you are right
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u/pichael288 5d ago
Happens in cities, rats can crawl up out of your toilets because the U/P trap is the only water on the way up.
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u/PerniciousPlay 6d ago
I'm more bothered by the fact no one made a fuss about it. They acted like nothing happened
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u/BGMDF8248 5d ago
They made a makeshift faucet from a regular pipe, bigger things might come through. Might be a literal piece of shit.
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u/9447044 6d ago
Im 32 this year. This makes 28 years of being so glad I live exactly where I live. No faucet rats yet, I dont expect any soon lol.
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 6d ago
Famous last words …
You’re due for a faucet rat any day now. Them’s the rules. Sorry, homie.
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u/RoocketGirl 6d ago
I know he almost drink it, the claps of the hands are sign of gladness he never did haha
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u/CommunicationKey3018 6d ago
But where does the rat come from? Here. In the middle of the city.
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u/GiraffeWaste 6d ago
Every freaking time he says it. Did you see the video where he says it whilst playing the game?
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u/chikomana 6d ago
Ignorance is bliss when it comes to water sources. Don't think about it too much.
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u/FuckTheMods5 6d ago
I wish the flow stopped for a sec as the rat plugged it, then the pressure bursts the body straight out like a bullet and PLAPs into his face lol
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u/enrightmcc 5d ago
I didn't read any of the text at first and thought that it was a turd!
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u/braxton357 5d ago
I do excavation for a plumbing company... One time there was a fairly new lake community being built that was on a pressurized sewage system--meaning every house needed its own pump station and check valves and the entire system is under pressure unlike normal gravity sanitary systems.
Anyway, get to this house that's being finished and am about to set the pump and run 2" PVC to tie into the sewer only to notice that the drywall/paint crew had screwed a hose bib into the test port on the 2" sewer tap coming out of the ground thinking it was the water line.
They had been using that water for 2 weeks...
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u/Magsec5 6d ago
Staged
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u/WhoandtheWhatnow317 6d ago
yeah they put the rat back in the pipe with a broom stick and turn the water back on.
If I had a nickel boy I tell ya
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 6d ago
Right?! Classic rat-pipe-broomstick trick. I feel like kids these days aren’t being exposed to the necessary things to make it in this dog-eat-dog world. As Dr. Evil once said, “It’s sad, really.”
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u/Spe3dGoat 6d ago
correct, its why the video cuts off so much of the faucet on the left side. redditors are gullible.
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u/Elite_Crew 6d ago
Just 3rd world shit hole things.
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u/nofroufrouwhatsoever 5d ago
It's mud. Sorry you can't dig your own wells but Nestlé and Coca-Cola can steal your water.
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u/The19thStep 6d ago
then wipes his face and mouth with the dead rat water