NYC Subway Rat Takes Selfie on Sleeping Man's Cell Phone

Someone get this rat an Instagram account.

An ingenious rat in the New York City subway system gave a passed out man on a train platform a souvenir in addition to a rude awakening last week by taking a selfie with the man's cell phone. Fox 61 reports

The President Street subway station in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn was briefly turned into a Photo Booth for vermin last week when a man who was passed out on the train platform awoke from his stupor to the flash from his cell phone going off. Upon waking, he noticed to his horror that a rat was sitting on his lap. When he later looked at his cellphone and saw a photo of the rodent's unmistakeable whiskered pointy pink nose, he realized that the rat set off the flash on his phone that woke him up.

The entire incident was documented on video by pair of tourists who were visiting friends in Brooklyn at the time.

The selfie-taking rat event is the latest incident where a member of New York City's vermin community made the news. In August, a cheese and carb-loving rat made national news and earned the moniker "pizza rat" when a video of the determined critter carrying a slice of pizza twice its size down the stairs to a subway platform went viral.

According to Wikipedia, according to a 2014 study, there are approximately 2 million rats living in New York City. The dominant species of rat in the Big Apple is the Norway rat, which can grow as large as 20 inches (head to tail) and weigh up to 2 pounds.