Giant Rats in the Marina!

June 26, 2008 at 7:23 pm in ICME, West Side

There are two rats. One is about fifteen feet tall, and the other is considerably larger. They’re grey and inflatable. I drove by them today, and snapped this picture as best as I could.

The rats were part of a protest. I’ll have to follow up and find out what the protest was about. Since the list of rats is pretty big nowadays, I couldn’t even guess.

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http://tokyofarm.com Spencer Cross

These are usually used in labor protests.
http://toshogu.blogspot.com tornadoes28

Ahh, they’re not as big as the ones I see downtown.
http://frazgomeanders.blogspot.com frazgo

Damn and here I was hoping LA would get its own disneyland and save me the trip to the OC.
http://pacifist.net doran

They appear to be scabhunters. Aren’t they adorable?
Matt Mason

Spencer, Doran — usually the protests in the Marina involve development, but I agree that this one is probably a labor dispute.

Frazgo — good one! Not only would we save the trip, we could blog about it too, heh heh.
http://www.marshallastor.com marshall

These rats belong to various construction unions. They use them all the time around LA as part of their protests against non-Union projects, or projects where the developer has violated their promises to use union labor. I’ve never seen two of them in one place before. They either must have a shortage of things to protest about, or they have a real beef with the developer of this project.
http://www.TheBusBench.com bustard

Marshall is correct. In NY, they are used by the unions to send a signal to scabs. There are approximately seven or nine inflatable rats in all owned by the unions, and they are manufactured in Chicago, if I recall. I have never seen more than one in one place, either. Before this photo I have never seen one outside of the five boros.
evan

Of course I don’t have one photo of the two of them, but a few years back I saw two of the rats in San Pedro:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/evang/27364991/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evang/27364990/

Giant Rats in the Marina!

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