Did you ever see the movie Ben/?

Near San Francisco, police found a man living in a dingy one room apartment with roughly 1,000 rats. Voluntarily. He wanted them there. EEWWWWW.

Well the cops charged him with misdemeanor animal cruelty and took control of the vermin. Most of the rats were then euthanized. Somehow, this has angered the rat loving community, who knew they were a community. Click here for story. These folks wanted the cops to seek them out to put up these rats. I don't see the cops taking that kind of time for this. Plus there are still rats languishing in shelters, take these first, then complain.

The guy, Roger Dier, is quite a character. He is convicted armed robber who first gained notoriety when his home in Southern California was used as a hideout for two men later convicted in the 1963 plot to kidnap the son and namesake of Rat Pack leader Frank Sinatra, didn't seem like a bad guy, just a bit troubled.

"He's an intelligent man to talk to, but he smells like rat urine," police said. "He told me that when he had only 100 of them, he'd let them sleep with him in his bed. They'd get all in his shorts and stuff. And you can't potty train them, so you know they were urinating and defecating in there."

EEWWW!