Here is a follow-up article. It addresses some of your questions! :p 
The guy is a real piece of work.
Quote:Asked why he didn't shut off his television before the rat-eating segment, Aitken said he couldn't do it quick enough.
Quote:Aitken, a 49-year-old part-time paralegal, said he wants to send a message to NBC and other networks with the lawsuit. He said he isn't concerned with winning a cash judgment in court.
"I just put any figure. You really think I expect to get $2.5 million?" he said.
The guy is a real piece of work.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
