Outnumbered
The Chinese have just had their eyes opened about the Animal Uprising™. There may be around one billion Chinese, but they're badly outnumbered by the enemy. In fact, just in one relatively small area, there are two billion of them running amok.
BEIJING - People living in communities surrounding a large shallow lake have been overrun by field mice after floodwaters drove the rodents out of islands on the lake, state media reported Monday.
The mouse invasion began on June 23 when the Yangtze River flooded, raising the water level in central China's Dongting Lake and submerging mouse holes on lake islands, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Now, an estimated 2 billion mice are ravaging crops in 22 counties around the lake, and authorities were rushing to construct walls and ditches to keep the rodents out. Residents have killed more than 2.3 million field mice — or 90 tons of the rodents, Xinhua said.
In Hunan province's Yiyang County, a ditch along the lakeshore was filled with mice. Residents were using clubs and shovels to beat them to death, while others scooped the furry animals out using fishing nets.
That has got to be wall-to-wall rodents. It's not even the year of the rat yet, either.
By Mark Eichenlaub, Monday, 9 July , 2007 @ 4:59 pm
Funny story though the Chinese may see dinner in those mice.
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By BlogDog, Monday, 9 July , 2007 @ 6:36 pm
Given their track record lately, the Chinese should just start making rat *food.* That’ll learn them little bastages a lesson.
By Jess, Tuesday, 10 July , 2007 @ 9:32 am
That made me chuckle, Blogdog. Of course my next thought was for the Chinese to make the mice toothpaste and toy trains too.