-
- FRANKFURT ; German police
killed a dog-sized rat which
- attacked a 59-year-old man outside his home near Frankfurt,
Bild newspaper
- reported Monday.
-
- The mass-selling tabloid quoted police as saying
the half meter
- (20 inch)-long rat was as vicious as a fighting dog and
as big as a
- dachshund.
-
- It said the rodent's intended victim, identified
only as Horst
- L., heard something rustling in a bush and then a sharp
hissing. He turned
- around and saw the rat, ready to pounce at him.
-
- "I was rigid with fear,'' said Horst. "I
just had time to grab
- a wooden plank to fend it off.''
-
- The rat sank its teeth into the plank and Horst
ran inside his
- home to call the police. Officers tried to grab the animal
with thick
- gloves but it attacked them so they shot it.
|
