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Don't click onto this if you hate rodents or they freak you out. I happen to like them and rats are smart rodents and I have a soft spot for all rodents. Of course I wouldn't want non pet rodents in my house but having said that I thought this was worth sharing. But if you are one who does not like rats please skip this post!
And it might be a staged video fyi but I still thought aww what a smart kitty... I mean rat.
http://abc7.com/society/video-large-rat-drags-bag-of-trash-across-sidewalk-in-nyc/2119211/
And it might be a staged video fyi but I still thought aww what a smart kitty... I mean rat.
BROOKLYN – It’s the scene that would both creep out and intrigue just about any passerby — a giant rat dragging an entire garbage bag across a filthy sidewalk in Crown Heights.
The dramatic scene happened near Kingston Avenue and Dean Street on a recent morning. The ambitious rodent persevered and clawed his way to a personal sized pizza crust.
The person who filmed it was middle school teacher Leigh Conner. She was on her way to work and she couldn’t believe what she was looking at.
“It’s like the rat was on steroids,” she told PIX11 in a message over Twitter. “I can’t believe it was so strong.”
The sidewalk episode was enough to get the internet buzzing, evoking another furry critter that won our hearts nearly two years ago – Pizza rat.
The furry critter was a viral sensation in 2015 but like all good things, it turned out to be too good to be true. It was later uncovered that the viral video was staged.
The rat was, in fact, trained by a Brooklyn-based performance artist known as Zardulu, “The Mythmaker."
Zardulu was the brains behind numerous other viral fabrications including the 3-eyed Gowanus catfish and “Selfie rat.”
So the big question: is this new viral rat video yet another fabrication by the so-called mythmaker?
In an email to PIX11 Monday afternoon, Zardulu wouldn’t confirm or deny whether this “Garbage Rat” was one of her productions, only saying “I am still fabricating viral scenarios all the time
At this rate, if it looks like rat but acts like something else, it probably smells fishy.
http://abc7.com/society/video-large-rat-drags-bag-of-trash-across-sidewalk-in-nyc/2119211/
Monday, June 19, 2017 01:13PM
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn --
A moving trash bag stopped a New York City woman in her tracks last week, prompting her to get out a camera and start rolling on what would certainly be a bizarre sight.
Leigh Conner said the ordeal happened at about 6:30 a.m. last Thursday on Dean Street between Brooklyn Avenue and Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
"I was getting on my bike and saw a trash bag moving, seemingly on its own," Conner said. "When I saw that it was being moved by a rat I started filming."
The video, which she titled "Pizza rat strikes again!" and can be seen in the player above, shows it all happen -- a large rat drags the trash bag across the sidewalk. When it can go no farther, the rat grabs what appears to be a pizza (or other round food) and goes into a hole in the ground.
(Photo/Leigh Conner)
"After standing there for a minute with my jaw dropped, I realized I had to film it," Conner said. "It was funny, because I had a conversation about pizza rat just the night before, making it an especially strange sighting."
The man who owns the nearby house where the rat went underground said rats are a huge problem in the area. He said he patched up that particular hole Monday morning.
Did you know our mobile phones are 18 times filthier than a bathroom toilet?
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