If we are to believe witness footage submitted to FOX61 in recent days by a man who calls himself Don Richards, something truly magical went on at the President Street subway station in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, late one night between trains.
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Unless this is some cruel hoax, here’s what reportedly transpired that night.
Richards tells FOX that, while waiting for his train, he pulled out his phone to videotape a rat who had been crawling around the station, for some odd (and oddly touristy) reason. He was lucky he did, though, because — as Richards’ story goes — the rat then crawled onto the lap of a passed-out dude who was leaning against the subway stairs.
According to FOX:
“The man saw a flash and then realized the rat was on top of him, causing him to jump up. What he realized later after looking at his cell phone was that when the rat crawled onto his lap, where his cell phone was sitting, he decided to take a selfie! The camera’s flash is what woke the man up.”
The rat’s alleged selfie (reportedly passed to Richards by the passed-out dude in the video, and included below), is amateur, sure, but also kind of abstract and artistic and symbolic of the hectic, faceless rat race that is the New York City subway commute. Someone ink this little guy a selfie-book deal already.
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