The boring ride of subway users in New York City suffered an unexpected change on the morning of Monday when a small stowaway jumped onto an MTA car in Fulton Street before it closed its doors, and rode on one of the longest stations of its route.
A rat, freely running through the car, terrorized the passengers in the Brooklyn tunnel causing men and women to get up from their seats and jump onto them to avoid being touched by the rodent.
The video of the moment, uploaded to YouTube on April 7, shows the terror passengers lived. "Rat on the train!" shouted one of the passengers as Jinais Ponnampadikkal Kader started recording the video.
The rat, scared by the shouting and people, ran from one side to the other of the train. Screams and laughter are joined by the animals' squeaks.
"Someone not on the train shouted 'Rat on the train!' But by the time everyone realized what was happening, the doors closed and the train entered the tunnel, we were trapped with it," wrote Jinais Ponnampadikkal Kader.
The government of New York has implemented programs to reduce the rat population in the city's subway. In 2013 it made a $500,000 investment, with a $1.1 million budget for 2014, including rat poison techniques in the 277 subway stations, according to MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz, quoted by NBC.
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