rats — in massive numbers — have over run areas of queenland.good harvest have created ideal conditions for the rodents to breed. our reporter nicky schiller is in the newsroom with more. the rats are everywhere. social media has been full of images like this one. tens of thousands of rats, both dead and alive, have swept up on beaches across queensland. now, as you can imagine, local media has been covering this. the abc here, they've posted a video where you can see those rats at this shoreline. now, in some cases, those dead rats have attracted flies and other insects. they've also been seen floating in the water. to give you an idea ofjust how big the rats can be, take a look at this image. you can see a hand and also the rat there. now, the rodents, they have been forced to move across the state in the search for food. derek glaude, he owns a vehicle hire company. he posted this video. he said it was terrifying how the rodents could destroy a vehicle overnight by getting at the wiring in an engine, so much so that he set up these homemade t