Do you want fries with that rat?

Yes, rat meat has become a delicacy in countries where meat has become to expensive to eat. Example is Cambodia.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.

With consumer price inflation at 37 percent according to the latest central bank estimate, demand has pushed a kilogram of rat meat up to around 5,000 riel ($1.28) from 1,200 riel last year.

Spicy field rat dishes with garlic thrown in have become particularly popular at a time when beef costs 20,000 riel a kg.

Officials said rats were fleeing to higher ground from flooded areas of the lower Mekong Delta, making it easier for villagers to catch them.

"Many children are happy making some money from selling the animals to the markets, but they keep some for their family," Ly Marong, an agriculture official, said by telephone from the Koh Thom district on the border with Vietnam.

"Not only are our poor eating it, but there is also demand from Vietnamese living on the border with us."

He estimated that Cambodia supplied more than a tonne of live rats a day to Vietnam.

Rats are also eaten widely in Thailand, while a state government in eastern India this month encouraged its people to eat rats in an effort to battle soaring food prices and save grain stocks.

($1 = 3,900 riel)

How long before this happens in Puerto Rico?

Book 'er Dano, while she DIES!!!!

Ok, OK. It's still getting weirder! First the dude who wanted his body in a wake to be standing up and now this.

The lady's name was Dinorah Rodríguez López, 39, from Carolina. 15 days ago she was accused of theft and booked normally. Released on bail, she was picked up yesterday on new charges of identity theft. Her bail was revoked and was informed that she will have to spend the night in jail before facing the judge. While on court, feigning illness, she excused herself to the bathroom, where she ingested a large amount of the drug Percocet.

When she didn't come back from the bathroom, court marshals went in, found her unconscious, and instead if taking her to the hospital, she was taken to the police station where she was booked while she was dying!

Seeing that her condition was getting worse, she was taken to the public hospital at Puerto Nuevo, where she died.

WTF!!!!!

What the hell is wrong with the people in this place!!!!!

Whatever she did, she didn't deserve to die like that!!!!

Is it me or the people in Puerto Rico are getting stupider by the minute!!!!

It's a small gladiatorial blood games after all!

The weirdness in the world continues. Check this one out...

ROME (Reuters) - With the ruins of ancient Rome, the splendor of Vatican City and countless Renaissance art treasures, what does Italy's capital lack to attract tourists?

The answer, according to the mayor's office, is a Disneyland-style theme park.

"The model is Euro-Disney in Paris," said Deputy Mayor Mauro Cutrufo, announcing plans to build a vast ancient Rome theme park just outside the city which he says could be up and running within three to four years.

The park would provide family-friendly attractions to show visitors what life was like in the Rome of 2,000 years ago.

To be built on an as yet unspecified 400-500 hectare (1,000-1,200 acre) site, it would put a Roman twist on rides like Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean, in which visitors float on boats through a fantasy pirate world.

"You would relive scenes from the Colosseum, from ancient Rome, gladiators or maybe Julius Caesar or other things," a Rome city official told Reuters.

A decision on whether to go ahead with the park could be made as early as next month after market research has shown potential demand for the plan.

But the park has already run into some opposition.

The government of the Lazio region, of which Rome is the capital, is run by the centre left and they are hostile to the proposal from the city council which is in the hands of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre right.

"I say no to Americanization," said Claudio Mancini, a member of the Lazio council, who hopes the project will be stopped at the planning stage.

"There are planning considerations to weigh up because 500 hectares isn't nothing," he was quoted as saying in the Corriere della Sera daily.

Ok. Now the coliseum will be an E ticket ride.