Rats the size of small children terrorize Back Bay denizens

The Globe has the Willard report, in which residents politely decline to take any responsibility for inviting rats with all those nice yummy trash bags in the public alleys.

... "I saw seven rats the size of small children," [City Councilor Michael] Ross said with a tremor of disgust. ...

Amy wonders if any of those mutant rats have invaded her Back Bay building:

... I began to relax and doze off. Just then, a thumpthumpTHUMP went across my ceiling. Since I had the earplugs in, I couldn't tell if it was happening in my upstairs neighbor's apartment or in the ceiling. It sounded like two creatures fighting and chasing each other, and it ended with a CRASH and an honest-to-God speck of ceiling falling onto my bed. I let out a scream, deathly afraid it would be a mouse head on my bed, and got up to take a Tylenol PM to drug myself into sleep. ...