INDIE CAMERAMAN FILMS RATS AT KFC-TACO BELL OUTLET

An independent TV news cameraman who spotted 30-50 rats frolicking inside a KFC-Taco Bell restaurant in New York's Greenwich Village grabbed his camera gear, caught the rats in action, and sold his footage to local and network broadcast and cable outlets, Newsday reported today (Monday). The newspaper said that as videographer Rafael Garcia shot the scene during the wee hours Friday morning, "the rats came to the front window as if playing to his camera." Health inspectors, who had checked out the restaurant only the day before, shut down the restaurant Friday after Garcia's footage appeared on morning talk shows. A spokesman for Yum Brands, the parent company of KFC and Taco Bell, issued a statement saying that conditions in the restaurant were "completely unacceptable" and "an absolute violation of our high standards."

26/02/2007