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Yesterday at about 9am while walking up the ramp to the London-bound East Dulwich train, a fat rat scurried (lumbered, really) across my path. Bold as brass. Eeeeks, I cried. I mention this as I thought rats, like mice, were nocturnal. Does my sighting indicate a worrying population explosion, or perhaps I was unlucky in seeing a rat insomniac?
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Salsaboy Wrote:

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> I saw one with a traffic cone on its head a few days ago.


Was probably taking it back to it's nest, along with a few road signs, a shopping trolley and four cans of strongbow.

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> Salsaboy Wrote:

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> > I saw one with a traffic cone on its head a few

> days ago.

>

> Was probably taking it back to it's nest, along

> with a few road signs, a shopping trolley and four

> cans of strongbow.


no, I think this one was part of the new breed of rats blowing-in from the home counties & clapham, coming out in the daytime and saying 'Look at me'....

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It's no wonder that there are rats running around the station, since nothing has been done for months and months about the gradual build up of litter and rubbish behind the fenced off areas.


I made a few enquiries and found out that it's Network Rail that are actually responsible for those fenced off areas. However, since Southern run the station I wrote to Joan Fairbrass, who is the station manager, with a few choice photos(including one of a very obliging rat),suggesting that she gets Network Rail to sort out what is actually a health & safety risk for Southern. She's come back to me and said that she'll get it dealt with.


If nothing happens, then I think we need an "adopt a station rat" story in one of the local papers!

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  • 2 weeks later...

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> Over 20 years ago I walked into Herne Hill Station

> in the morning with a large rat pacing me on the

> pavement as I walked, almost like a dog on a lead.

> Somewhat disconcerting.


I actually laughed out loud when I read this....hilarious

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