The Huffington Post | Posted: 11/08/2013 11:13 am EST
The British government is reportedly spending the equivalent of more than $11,000 a month fighting mutant rats that have infested Parliament.
According to the Daily Star, pest control experts at the House of Commons spent £7,000 (about $11,216) dealing with poison-resistant -- ergo, "mutant" -- rodents in a single month. That bill represents an increase of 15 percent from two years go.
That's not all. The rats are apparently spreading across the UK. International Business Times reports that the mutants look like normal rats, but eat poison pellets intended to kill them "like feed."
"Normal rats are being killed off by poison, so these resistant species are taking their place. It's only natural that their numbers are expanding," British Pest Control Association spokesman Richard Moseley told the Metro. Ain't evolution a rat bastard?
Since poison doesn't work on the so-called "super rats," officials are turning to more traditional methods of pest control.
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