“Pied Piper” Stunt That Failed
When the garbage dump at Sprague, a farming township near Spokane, Washington, was burned out recently thousands of rats scuttled into the settlement and set up housekeping in the stores and shops and the private homes. Chicken runs, corn bins, and vegetable gardens were made to suffer. The rats were so big that cats would not tackle them.
So David Lindgren, clarinet playing band leader of Spokane, offered to play the part of the pied piper and lead the rats down into the lake. It was not to be. Tooting bebop he poked his way into cellars under the warehouses and went scrambling about over the fences, but not a rat took a bit of notice. It was only a racket to them. So the people decided to call in professional a killer they needed, not a musician.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 98, 15 February 1950, Page 7
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143“Pied Piper” Stunt That Failed Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 98, 15 February 1950, Page 7
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