Posted on 02/08/2023 9:15:14 AM PST by BenLurkin
The 20-second footage shows the unidentified straphanger dressed in gray jeans and blue vest being rocked to sleep by the train car. Unbeknownst to him, a mangy rat seizes that moment to race up his leg and onto his shoulders.
The rodent-ridden rider then wakes up and puts his hand behind his neck– only to find the rat making its way back down his arm.
The spine-tingling video is just the latest in New York City’s ongoing battle against vermin.
According to one recent report, maintenance crews in Battery Park City have even resorted to using dry ice to kill the invasive rodents.
“Here in Battery Park City, we’re no stranger to having rodents, and so we wanted to make sure that we were able to manage them while keeping everything chemical-free,”
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He was pretty laid back about it. I would’ve completely freaked.
Him or the rat?.....................
It’s the two-legged vermin that are far more dangerous.
I’m not sure I’d be so enthused about eliminating the four-legged ones. Might be a viable source of meat in the future if you extend the current trajectory of the Big Apple out a few more years.
That was a very prophetic movie.
Had something similar happen to me in an airport one time.....I think there was a bunch of construction going on with it. Anyway, my flight was delayed for a few hours and it was late enough that the airport wasn’t that busy. I had gone to a bar and was stretched out in a booth reading a book. Felt something on my foot and when I looked over the top of my book, a friendly rat was sitting on my shoe.
We have old family photos of an aunt, who grew up on the upper East Side of NYC, riding the NY subway #6 line to her job as a legal secretary on Wall Street in the early 1950s
She was dressed like Grace Kelly and the men looked like they had stepped off the set of “Mad Men.”
I don’t remember any stories of rats climbing on them as they rode.
2 legged subway rats
Or
4?
I once woke up in the middle of the night in a crummy motel room with mice crawling all over me, several of them. I had to sleep the rest of the night with the light on, that was the only way to keep them from crawling back on me.
At least it wasn’t spiders, that would have totally freaked me out.
Better mice than bed bugs!
a demonrat would’ve cleaned out his pockets...
No kidding, how much longer until Snake Plisken shows up and rescues someone from Manhattan, the way things are going, NYC will be like the movie in a few years.
That rat is HUGE! Field rats do not get quite that big.
Pack a hunk of cheese in your luggage. Leave it on the motel floor at night. Or, better yet, call the desk and ask them to bring you one, and tell them why.
He’s lucky he didn’t get his nose and ears chewed off.
In New York's war against rats, half of the troops defected to the rats and the other half brought back war brides.
NYC should have a rat character as a mascot, sort of like Mickey Mouse, but actually a big furry rat instead (not Eric Adams).
Send out of work Broadway actors into Times Square donning the rat suit, with orders to welcome and entertain the tourists.
Nothing says “Welcome to New York!” like a rat.
the disgusting thing is rats pee everywhere to leave a trail to follow to get back wherever they have to go- he’s probably got a pee trail all over him now-
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