Workers who planned to clean the city's sewers ahead of the winter were surprised by the rat that was discovered in front of them • After being properly frightened, it turned out that it was a large doll at all.
The cleaning workers are washing the giant rat doll, last month
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The cleaning workers wash the doll, last month // Photo: Jam Press
A cleaning crew from Mexico City's sewer system, Mexico's largest city, was surprised to discover about two weeks ago a giant car-sized rat - until it turned out that it was not real at all.
On September 18, the team began renovating and cleaning the city’s sewers in anticipation of the approaching winter rains.
But in one of the turns in the canals, the crew found a huge rat in front of them.
At first they were startled by the sight in front of them, but it soon became clear that this was a giant doll made a few years ago by hand for Halloween, and not a real animal.
Gente: Not understood by what we found this year in the City of Mexico.
La gente también: Encuentran botarga de giga rata en coladeras de la Magdalena Contreras pic.twitter.com/ym77U0TfCH
- Natalie De Rosas (@NatalieDeRosas) September 19, 2020
While the crew dumped the 22 tons of rubbish taken out of the sewer into the municipal landfill, one of its members washed the giant doll down the street, when it was quickly caught by passers-by filming the unusual event, posted it on social media and made it go viral.
"I would be pretty scared if I came across this doll in the sewer myself, it looks really alive," wrote one respondent to the doll's rinsing video.
The publication led a woman named Evelyn Lopez to ask the authorities to return the doll to her, claiming that she was the one who made the doll, which she said disappeared during a rainstorm that separated the area a few years ago, and that somehow found herself in the city sewer.