Brooklyn rats take out finger lick’n good, but don’t clean up, wires for dessert

Before a packed crowd of more than 50 residents at a meeting sponsored by the Dean Street Block Association, Ms. Howard described how rats the size of cats had gotten into the engine of her car, a 2007 Camry, leaving behind chicken bones and aluminum foil, all the while chewing on the wires.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/in-brooklyn-the-rats-move-out-as-the-nets-move-in/?ref=nyregion