Pioneer High School on Lockdown after "King Rat" Invades Campus

Poppy Eagleton, Ava Fowler -- January 28th

Does your home have rat problems? Well "rat problems" would be an understatement when describing the 54-foot tall mouse that scampered onto the Pioneer Campus at 9:05am on Monday morning. 

Dubbed "King Rat", “Mousezilla” or "Giga-Rat" by students, this giant mouse seems to have fallen out of a nearby tree and plummeted straight into the science building.

Luckily, Animal Control got the situation covered. 

"We gave it a bucket of Easy Cheese" – Kurt G. Smith, Woodland Davis Pest Control. 

Apparently, this isn't the first time Pioneer has faced cumbersome rodents. 

"The science building has had a history of rat problems." says Molly Terry, a 10th grade student at PHS. "Last year, one of them clung onto my bag of Cheetos and I had to do a spinning back kick maneuver to get it off."

While evidence has proven otherwise, the Pioneer High School Rat Club has been blamed for this event. This club has faced a long history of backlash from other students for their previous rat-related crimes, including stealing cheese from the culinary class and drilling "rat homes" into the walls of the school library. 

"This hate is truly unjustified. I'll admit we've had our problems in the past, but to tell you the truth, I’m not a rat-tler, I’m a peace-maker." –Charlette Quiroz, Grade 10.

While physical damages have otherwise been secured, the giant rodent attack is still the worst event that PHS students have dealt with since the "lizard legion" of 2012.