Back in the 80's I was stationed at the US Embassy in Yaounde Cameroon. Me and another Marine where in the basement, when a rat came down the hall. We both pulled our side handle baton's out to deal with it, but it was faster then we where and it ran up the leg of Dan, the other Marine. He screamed, I might of screamed too. It shocked us pretty good!!!! The rat went between his legs and stopped at his crotch. Dan spread his legs, but there really wasn't anything I could do. For a second that seemed like a minute, we where all frozen. Hitting it with the Baton was out of the question, pulling out my pistol wasn't option either. Then it ran down his leg and under an office door.
Nobody was hurt, but we both realized that in a fight with a rat, we had lost that one!!!