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Presented with little need for commentary, here is, perhaps, the oddest tweet you will see from a D.C. reporter all day, courtesy of Washington Times crime beat writer Andrea Noble:
DC police got a report this morning of a baby in a trash bin. It turned out to be a rat.
— Andrea Noble (@anobleDC) May 2, 2012
Whoever made the call shouldn’t feel too embarrassed. After all, a rat is actually a living, breathing creature. It’s not as if someone did what a Mountain View, Calif. resident did a few years back and report seeing a newborn infant in a garbage can, only to have police determine it was a burrito.
Of course, reports of abandoned children are not to be taken lightly, especially in the wake of a January incident in which an infant girl was abandoned on the doorstep of a Northeast D.C. home and left to die in the cold. The baby’s death was ruled a homicide in April.
