“In late 1989 staffers in the House Legislative Counsel office, located in Room 136 of the Cannon Building, discovered that a foot-long rat had been living inside a 9-foot-long, 4-foot-high Xerox machine, chewing apart wires and leaving behind a trail of droppings, banana peels, corn cobs and a sealed plastic baggy with a Hostess Twinkie. It cost $107,000 to replace the copier.”
