Move over, #PizzaRat.
Take a seat, #MilkshakeSquirrel.
It"s time to make room on the Internet for #SelfieRat. Allow us to explain… and then prepare to be totally and completely grossed out:
Earlier this month, a man was sleeping on the subway platform in Crown Heights, Brooklyn when another pedestrian happened to be filming him.
Things then turned unexpectedly exciting when the man was awoken by his slumber by a rat. On his person. In his clothing.
So, you know, pretty much everyone"s worst nightmare come true.
We see the man jump up in an understandable panic in this video, but then we also learn that the rat managed to somehow snap a selfie with the man"s cell phone.
According to the following video, the flash on his phone is actually what caused the man to wake up… and then the rat crawling all over his body is what caused him to make a short run for it.
We feel all gross and disgusting just writing about this incident.
Still, we must tip our figurative caps to the rat, who somehow figured out how to use a cell phone and whose 15 minutes of fame may last even longer than his aforementioned viral animal friends as a result.
See how this all went down now:
