Huge Rats Move In, Drive Families Out: Weird News & Oddities

Rats measuring 12 to 18 inches long have taken over a New Haven, Connecticut, apartment complex, forcing six families into hotel stays while management traps the rodents and patches their entry points. Elsewhere in the weird-news roundup, a Montclair, NJ job site lost its rented porta-potty to an apparently desperate thief, leaving police with very little to go on and a $725 replacement bill.