No Room to Swing a Dead Rat

So small group of children playing with something on the neighbor's sidewalk.  Looks like a dead rat.  Better check this out.  Yup.  Dead rat.  But it's OK.  "We have a pair of scissors so we aren't actually touching the dead rat."  "Where'd you get the scissors?"  "Mom gave them to us so we wouldn't touch the dead rat."  Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.