He was just after a slice of pizza.
He was pretty laid back about it. I would’ve completely freaked.
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.
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.
a demonrat would’ve cleaned out his pockets...
That rat is HUGE! Field rats do not get quite that big.
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-
He was just after a slice of pizza.
Nothing new:
“You got rats on the West Side
Bed bugs uptown,
What a mess this town’s in tatters, I’ve been shattered
My brain’s been battered, splattered all over Manhattan....
Get RID OF RATS QUICKLY...boots vs rats
Or...
Use a small dog. They weren't actually bred to sit on your lap, but to KILL rats!!
I remember sitting in a bow stand looking down at a squirrel thinking “that thing is about to go inside my pant leg.” Yep. Their claws are quite sharp.
I don’t know if he was drunk or what, but if I had been sleeping soundly enough to allow a rat to climb the length of my body to get to the back of my neck, I suspect that my reaction would have been quite different, involving rapid jerky motions of my body accompanied by shouted profanity.
As in “WTF? WTF? WTF?”, ending in a wild eyed stare around me.
I just don’t think I would have stood up and kind of shrugged it off.