Millions of rats living on the NYC subway tracks don’t faze New Yorkers in the least. But recently, the rats have started venturing onto slumbering passengers. And now, alarming video evidence shows that rats consider themselves normal subway riders.
Notice how the presence of the rat on this R train car (filmed just two days ago) causes the passengers to scamper onto seats and raise their legs off of the floor, as if rats were unable to climb walls or, more likely, to drop down onto your head unannounced from a small crack in the ceiling. The rat, by contrast, calmly rides along and gets off the train at the next stop.
That rat revenue is an important part of the MTA’s latest budget. Get used to it.
[via NYCtheblog]
Republished from Gawker
Tim
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 8:43 AMPhone sideways FFS!
sarah
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 9:06 AMSoooo is the footage about a rat or scared commuters jumping on seats. Though if one of our Sydney Town hall rats jumped on our trains – some kid would try and pat it thinking it was a cat.
Jon
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 10:57 AMway to go with the subject heading – it made me think there was something of substance to this, such as evidence that rats had changed their behaviour (or learnt behaviour!), not just that a rat got on a train that many generations of rats were long used to filled with humans that many generations of rats were used to. super meh.
Mike
Friday, January 28, 2011 at 12:31 PMThe rats “Don’t faze New Yorkers in the least”? Lol yeah…I can see that