‘Pizza Rat’ Video Goes Viral: Watch a “Subway Rat” Haul a Pizza Slice Twice Its Size

He has been dubbed “Pizza Rat.” An icky but inspirational YouTube video went viral on Monday showing a rat carrying an entire slice of pizza on its back down a New York City subway staircase.

“Watching this rat trying to carry something bigger than him down the stairs is in a way a great encapsulation of what it’s like to be a New Yorker,” 35-year-old Matt Little said.

Little says his brother was shocked by the response the video received.
“I told my brother that it was kind of blowing up on Twitter, and he said ‘all these people are getting in touch with you over a video of a mouse?’ And I said, ‘no, over a video of a rat,’” Little told 1010 WINS.

Little told 1010 WINS that the rat didn’t eat the entire slice of pizza, but left it on the stairs after he finished filming.

“I like to think he was sharing with us, like he saw me and my friend Pat coming down the stairs and he said ‘well that looks like two hungry guys,’ and left the rest of it for us,” Little said.

Agencies/Canadajournal