Ca-caw-caw: Pigeon poops on tot's face as tempers fray at siege of Lincoln flats

Sweeping menace: Winged rats are targeting Brit city's children now - this must stop

Nikola Tesla obsessively fed them, the Queen keeps hundreds at Sandringham, and Charles Darwin was enthralled by what they could teach us about natural selection. But for most of us, they're little more than rats with wings. And now one has only gone and shat on a three-month-old's face."