KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A Malaysian man earned almost
3,000 ringgit (US$790) and the title of best rat catcher by killing
1,175 of the rodents in three months with a slingshot.
The council in the northern city of Kota Bahru offered residents
1 ringgit (US$0.26) for each rat they killed as part of an campaign
to eradicate the vermin.
At the end of the three-month campaign, 43-year-old laborer
Ismail Hamzah had presented the council with 1,175 rat carcasses -
the vast majority of the 1,922 total handed in, the New Straits
Times newspaper reported Friday.
Ismail was paid the bounty for each rat and a first prize bonus
of 1,500 ringgit (US$395), the paper reported.
Ismail said he hunted rats and shot them with pebbles from a
slingshot made from a block of wood and rubber from a wheel tube
from his son's bicycle.
(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
3,000 ringgit (US$790) and the title of best rat catcher by killing
1,175 of the rodents in three months with a slingshot.
The council in the northern city of Kota Bahru offered residents
1 ringgit (US$0.26) for each rat they killed as part of an campaign
to eradicate the vermin.
At the end of the three-month campaign, 43-year-old laborer
Ismail Hamzah had presented the council with 1,175 rat carcasses -
the vast majority of the 1,922 total handed in, the New Straits
Times newspaper reported Friday.
Ismail was paid the bounty for each rat and a first prize bonus
of 1,500 ringgit (US$395), the paper reported.
Ismail said he hunted rats and shot them with pebbles from a
slingshot made from a block of wood and rubber from a wheel tube
from his son's bicycle.
(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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