Terence McCann Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 I opened up the panel to the right of the one in the picture and found 3 or 4 empty nut shells before I opened up the one in the picture. There were missing knockouts in both of these panels & he was going back and forth using these. My client was a younger woman who was there with her parents. I wasn't startled until she let out a scream that damn near made me hit my head on the joists. Download Attachment: Summit Ave004Small.jpg 70.35 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 As most of you know, I'm less afraid of death than I am of rats. I was once in an unfinished garage, trying to test some water stains on the floor above with my moisture meter, when I glanced over at the area above the wall plate between the joists and was started by this big black rat hanging onto a 220 cable by his front paws and staring right at me. I was so startled I let out a yell, lunged backward and the stepladder and I ended up on the floor with my butt planted squarely in a big oil spot from a leaking oil pan. I was scrambling to vacate the garage, doing an immitation of Carl Louis doing the 100 meter dash, when I realized my client was doubled over laughing and in tears. It seems Mr. Rat was dead as a doornail and hadn't twitched a muscle. Still, it was a good two or three minutes before I went back into that garage to verify what he was telling me. Damn near had heart failure! ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swarga Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 Mike, I appreciate the rat story. Don't feel bad, I had a similar experience with a dead rattlesnake about a week ago. My pulse is just now coming back down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 See, That's what's so weird. I love snakes, spiders, scorpions and just about all wildlife and they don't really bother me. When I encounter them in the wild, I'm rarely startled. Believe it or not, we had some big timber rattlers on the little mountain behind my home in New York State, and I used to go up there and screw with them all the time and never got bit. There's just something about a rat that flips a switch in my head that says, "Run!" However, put me in a cement block structure with a rat and I'll probably pound my way through the wall to get out. Go figure. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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