So I'm doing a good job of becoming strunk last night and I go to fire up the BBQ to cook some dogs and hotlinks. I had the lid open using a lighter to light it and a freakin rat jumps out of it, bounces off my arm and hits the ground running. At least it wasn't on fire.
With my sloth like reflexes I just looked down and thought "that sucks". I found out with all the burners on high it gets close to 600 degrees. I figure it is pretty much sanitized now. Put out a couple traps to try to eliminate the culprit. We have a field behind the house so rats are not uncommon in the yard, damn vermin.