Reality TV

– Bangladeshi Man Kills 83,450 Rats To Win 14-Inch Color Television –

A Bangladeshi farmer was awarded a 14-inch color television by government officials as part of a nationwide incentive program to help eradicate rodents in the dirt poor country.

And sure it seems like a cheesy prize until you realize that, if he kills 14 million more rats, the government has promised to bring electricity to Bangladesh.

We don’t realize how good we have it here in America sometimes. This guy got a television and a certificate of recognition for eliminating 83 thousand rats. Here in the States, GM got rid of eight thousand jobs and they got 700 billion dollars.

The rat eradication incentive program is an effort by the Bangladeshi government to cut down on the amount of food needed to feed the seventh most populous country on the planet.

Bangladesh imports roughly three million tons of food annually, up to two-thirds of which is eaten by rats. Which partly goes to explain why Bangladesh is one of the least requested destinations on Travelocity.

It’s so bad, the Roaming Gnome went Bangladesh for a commercial and got his foot gnawed off. *rimshot*

The runner-up in the rat-killer sweepstakes, Fakhrul Haque Akanda (who got his name from the three sets of Scrabble tiles his family was looking at when he was born) said he killed 37,450 rats using mostly traps.

To put that in perspective, that’s over 102 rats a day for 365 straight days. And that’s the dude in second place.

It has to take a couple hours a day just to get rid of the rats. And that doesn’t even include the time spent looking up recipes for rodent curry on the Internet.

I don’t know how I’d get through the day in Bangladesh. I’ve managed to trigger my gag reflex just writing about this story.

The heck with food, we need to export four million flamethrowers to this country right away before the rats carry a majority of seats in the Bangladeshi Parliament and snag representation on the U.N. Security Council.

In a related story, health professionals have requested an appointment with White House officials saying they think they may have a potential solution to both the trade deficit and the feral cat problem here in America.

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