It's just a joke. fkunone: A man walks into an antique shop looking for something unique to place on his mantle at home. He sees a brass rat and asks the store clerk,"How much is this brass rat?"
The clerk replies,"It's $50 for the brass rat itself and another $5000 if you want the story that goes with it."
"I don't need the story, just the rat," says the man.
As the man walks out of the store with the brass rat he notices a few real rats following him. As he reaches his car in the lot there are now several dozen rats following him. He drives further and futher and more and more rats join in following him until the streets are full of thousands and thousands of rats. The man drives over a bridge and tosses the brass rat off the bridge and all the rats dive over the edge of the bridge and drown in the river below.
The man drives back to the store and the clerk asks,"Do you want to buy the story behind the brass rat now?"
"No," the man replies, "do you have any brass lawyers?"
Re: It's just a joke. Crystal_Blue_024: (LoL) I've heard other "versions" of that joke... Too funny (LoL)