Rats Chewed Through About $18,000 Worth of Cash Inside An ATM

Sep 29, 2018

A local Indian bank got a series of complaints about one of its ATMs. The cause of its sudden malfunction is quite unsettling.

Just thinking about this story alone sends shivers down our spines. What you are about to read will definitely give you quite a shock.

In the Tinkusia district, located in the Eastern state of Assam, India, an ATM was starting to act a bit askew.

Countless people were soon left with empty pockets when the machine simply just wouldn't shoot out any more cash.

After a series of complaints from the bummed out ATM users, the bank's officials decided it was time to figure out exactly what was going on.

If you thought the ATM was robbed bone-dry, then guess again. Instead, it was a family of squeaky rats that had made their way inside the machine. The wily rats had proceeded to nibble through banknote after banknote, destroying a whopping amount of roughly 1.2 million rupees, nearly $18,000. The gobsmacked bank employees even found a rotting dead rat at the scene of the crime. You can see in the photos of what a few destructive rats can do over a short period of time.

Mugdhajyoti Dev Mahanta, the Tinkusia district's police superintendent, had stated that there were zero signs of any criminal activity or conspiracy pertaining to this incident. What's painstakingly evident, is that there were plenty of 500 and 2000 Indian rupee banknotes shredded to pieces.

These rats were either looking for a good place to nest, or they were just being plain old rats. We can all agree that there is no in-between in this scenario.

Do you want to know how the rats even got in the machine? Like mice, rats also have the ability to compress their bodies to fit through the unlikeliest of tiny spaces. An adult rat can incredibly fit through a hole or crack with only an inch of an opening.

The smallest hole that a juvenile rat had squeezed through was reportedly only 0.96 inches in diameter, about the size of a U.S. quarter.

No matter what age or size, every rat has the ability to get out of some of the tightest spots because of their extremely flexible and long cylindrical bodies.

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