How do you get the attention of a girl who has everything - including your boyfriend?
One woman seeking revenge on a romantic rival smashed the windows of her South Philadelphia home and dumped a box of live white rats inside, police said.
"I'd have to say this is a first," Officer Christine O'Brien said.
In a long-running dispute over a man, the jealous lover and about eight other women friends used a baseball bat to break the glass and toss the rodents inside at about 11pm on Wednesday (local time) in the Grays Ferry neighbourhood, Philadelphia police said.
The gang also punched the 30-year-old victim, inflicting cuts and bruises, and stole her purse containing identification and about $200, police said.
The victim was able to identify at least one of the attackers, who fled in a Chevy Lumina.
