I'm home alone with the kids this evening and so, so sorry I opened this thread.

Anonymous wrote:Op again. I was told to pour a ton of bleach down the toilet and the only thing to do is install a device which costs $4000 into the pipe. \

That would be 4K well spent in my opinion.

Anonymous wrote:OMG i didn't know its was common, hope they don't carry Ebola

I could have gone my whole entire life without this picture...and then you had to post it! I just can't say thanks...

Op again. I was told to pour a ton of bleach down the toilet and the only thing to do is install a device which costs $4000 into the pipe. Hoping this was a one time incident! This was on the first floor but now I read stories about rats being on the second floor baths too! I will never go to the bathroom in peace again!

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Anonymous wrote:We have friends of friends in Chicago who had to move out of their nice house because of a sewer rat infestation. There were rats, multiple, coming up out of their toilets and through the pipes.

Ha! Did they disclose in the selling documents? Curious how they sold.... Or did they remediate?

They didn't sell - last I heard they had moved into a hotel or apt while they tried to get rid of the rats!

Anonymous wrote:Geezus...I can't imagine all the therapy I'd need to so much as enter that bathroom again much less use the commode.

LOL!! My thoughts exactly!!

This happened to a friend of mine. The rat actually tried to climb up his butthole. Horrible experience. Good luck OP, please protect your butthole.

So, you think the rat is having nightmares at the sight of your bare ass coming toward his head?

So now I know how that ONE rat got into our rowhouse

Anonymous wrote:OP, there is no amount of freaking out about this that I would consider excessive.

I would tell you to burn the house down and salt the earth, but you just renovated.

+1,000

Plague carrying, baby biting pestilence straight out of Hell!!

Happened to my high school friend at her house when she was younger. The horror.

Geezus...I can't imagine all the therapy I'd need to so much as enter that bathroom again much less use the commode.

BTDT.

Twice.

About 5 years apart.

Same toilet.

One live rat, one dead rat.

Rats can hold their breath for a really long time, just FYI. So it's no big deal for them to spend a lot of time in the pipes.

They can and do appear in high-rise toilets as well as ground-level house toilets.

You will never, ever sit on any toilet without first looking into it, believe me.

This is so exceptionally scary that I can't let this settle into my thought processes. I just can't...

OP, all the best to you.

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Anonymous wrote:This only happens in DC because of the antiquated sewer system and it crosses storm drains

We live in Bethesda. It happened to us. And on the second floor of our home!! The rat was huge, and fortunately, dead. I flushed it immediately. In retrospect, I should have taken a picture of it. DH and the kids still think I was having a nightmare. But this was before I had an Iphone handy. Still brings chills down my spine whenever I think of it.

STOP IT NOW. No more stories, keep that shit to yourselves.