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True Crimecast

The Rat in the Trousers - Christopher Baker

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, Personal Journals

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Valentine’s Day 2015 was supposed to be a day of romance and "International Authentic Dishes" at Sunderland’s famous Borneo Bistro. But for 28-year-old Christopher Baker, the only thing on the menu was a desperate, drunken, and poorly calculated scheme. After finishing a full buffet meal, Baker stood up and pointed to a "pockmarked" visitor on the floor: a live black-and-white rat.

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0:00.0

Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation

0:04.5

Welcome to True.

0:13.8

What can I get for you?

0:16.5

Yeah, give me something that's kind of like the theme of a Pixar movie that make it real life and real dangerous.

0:24.9

Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.

0:32.0

Welcome to True Crime to Go. I am John here with Jamie.

0:36.0

Are we talking about Ratatooey?

0:37.4

Talking about Ratatooey. It makes me not a hungry. I'll tell you that.

0:41.0

One time I saw a mouse at a local restaurant that serves pizza. Yeah. But it was so good. I just was

0:47.4

like, you know, I get it. I have seen a mouse in that same place.

0:51.5

The mice, they like pizza too. There are some places you can ignore it, maybe. Some places you can't. You probably shouldn't anywhere, but I'd go there right now if you want to. I stopped having my favorite food in town three years ago. That's different. That's different. The mega roach is what I call that place. No roach there. This one is a rat. And I'm not talking about a snitch, a real life rat. Get us rolling, man. Valentine's Day, 20, 2015. Wait, 2020, 2015. Where were you? See, you don't know. What a horrible husband. Sunderland,land is where you were not that's where i was

1:29.8

not a man walked into a restaurant alone it's kind of sad but he ordered a buffet for one and a bottle

1:36.2

of water i mean i might have been doing that like at a chinese restaurant yeah i think i think you may

1:42.0

have been he went to his seat in the back and he filled his

1:45.3

plate full of food and he ate just like a grown man does at a buffet. But shortly before

1:51.7

four o'clock in the afternoon, he stood up and pointed to the floor and shouts, it's a rat. I'm not

1:57.2

eating here. I want my money back. And there was, in fact, a black and white rat on the floor.

2:05.4

The rat was just chilling.

2:06.7

It didn't seem to be upset and scurrying about.

2:10.3

The staff didn't really panic.

2:13.5

And they apologized immediately.

2:16.4

They took a look at the rat after he left

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