PEOPLE BEING PEOPLE

A British couple are being terrorized by a rat in their toilet. Margaret and Keith Woods say the rodent has emerged from their loo numerous times, even though they now flush repeatedly before sitting down. “We are petrified to go to the toilet,” Margaret said. Just the other day, Margaret said, she flushed, opened the lid, and “it was rearing its ugly head.” The water company has apologized, saying sewer work is probably to blame. The Woods family, meanwhile, has named the now-familiar rat “Roland.”