Althouse: Rat eats 1.3 million rupees

June 23, 2018

Rat eats 1.3 million rupees — $19,000.

In an ATM machine in Gauhati, India.

25 comments:

David Begley said...: Was that the winning rat?

And his name?; 6/23/18, 5:57 AM
rhhardin said...: The loss is a matter of what the government does. It reduces the money supply - the rat ate paper, not money - so the govenment could just replace it and everything's equal. That produces a moral hazard though.; 6/23/18, 6:12 AM
Ann Althouse said...: @David Begley.

No, that's Virgil. The winning rat, the official rat of the Althouse blog, is Rattatz.; 6/23/18, 6:16 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Virgil came in second, but doing this post today, I just thought he looked more likely to eat money.; 6/23/18, 6:17 AM
Rusty said...: Rattatz or Rattataz?
I voted for Virgil the fist time around.
The pictire in your post keeps changing size, Ann. Is that you or me?; 6/23/18, 6:31 AM
Rusty said...: picture, dummy.; 6/23/18, 6:31 AM
Ann Althouse said...: It's you, Rusty.; 6/23/18, 6:33 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Ugh! It was weird on Meade's iPad too.

I tried to code it a different way. Try it now.; 6/23/18, 6:35 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Flickr and Blogger did not play well together.

I took the code from Flickr and then made it smaller it through Blogger. That created a flashing effect on some devices. I correct the problem by getting code for the smaller size directly from Flickr.; 6/23/18, 6:37 AM
MayBee said...: Awww The rat drawing contest. Good times.; 6/23/18, 6:48 AM
MayBee said...: Virgil came in second, but doing this post today, I just thought he looked more likely to eat money.

hahahhahahhha!; 6/23/18, 6:50 AM
David Begley said...: When does Althouse sell rat coffee mugs? Full sets and individual rat characters. Look out Walt!; 6/23/18, 7:00 AM
Bob Boyd said...: It's not the rupees to dollars exchange rate Virgil has to worry about, it's the rupee to poopy rate. That money could be tied up for a long time.; 6/23/18, 7:05 AM
Ann Althouse said...: The rats were drawn with a finger back when that was a new function in the iPhone texting app. It was hard to do that, so it forced a very primitive style that felt cute at the time. I guess I stopped because things like that lose their charm after a very short while.; 6/23/18, 7:18 AM
Mary Beth said...: It took them 22 days from the time the ATM broke until they went to fix it. Is money usually left sitting in a broken ATM?; 6/23/18, 7:18 AM
Ann Althouse said...: The rats were drawn with a finger back when that was a new function in the iPhone texting app. It was hard to do that, so it forced a very primitive style that felt cute at the time. I guess I stopped because things like that lose their charm after a very short while.; 6/23/18, 7:19 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Just reloaded. StI'll not playing well with my oldest iPad. Will try with a newer one. The problem with the flashing is that the tho pictures take up different amounts of screen space, which means that the larger (or taller) pushes everything down, and the smaller/shorter pulls it back up, which makes everything below the drawings flash up and down at a pretty good clip - fast enough that it was difficult to get into this comment thread, because the link kept jumping up and down, much faster than I could click on.; 6/23/18, 7:44 AM
Bob Boyd said...: I just see a little part of Virgil, an ear and one eye peeking at me. It makes him more like a real rat.; 6/23/18, 7:49 AM
Fritz said...: In Venezuela, you could at least use Bolivars to lure rates to eat.; 6/23/18, 7:55 AM
Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...: ATM machine: automatic teller machine machine; 6/23/18, 8:54 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Newest iPad seems to be working just fine, but only the one pix is showing.; 6/23/18, 9:41 AM
Darrell said...: Our rats go through most of $3.8 trillion.; 6/23/18, 10:00 AM
Rusty said...: Blogger Ann Althouse said...
It's you, Rusty.

6/23/18, 6:33 AM

(sigh)Isn't it always.; 6/23/18, 10:37 AM
Wilbur said...: Reminds Wilbur of Biggie Rat, from the early-60's cartoon King Leonardo.

Biggie Rat's associate in perfidy, the King's brother, had one of the greatest names ever: Itchy Brother. I learn now it has already been used by a band, who I read was a precursor to The Kentucky Headhunters.; 6/23/18, 10:42 AM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: Virgil definitely looks like the rat that ate the rupee. Or should that be the rat who ate the rupee?; 6/23/18, 5:35 PM