{"id":196031,"date":"2019-12-06T22:14:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T22:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/nycs-pizza-rat-has-some-competition-meet-coffee-rat.html"},"modified":"2019-12-06T22:14:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T22:14:22","slug":"nycs-pizza-rat-has-some-competition-meet-coffee-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/travel\/nycs-pizza-rat-has-some-competition-meet-coffee-rat.html","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s &#8216;Pizza Rat&#8217; has some competition: Meet &#8216;Coffee Rat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - 'Coffee rat' on New York transport lane scampers divided with coffee cup\"><button class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__tp_a\" data-g-r=\"vp_ap vp_tg\" data-c-vpattrs=\"{muted:true,bContent:false,vidNum:1,docking:true}\" data-c-vpdata=\"{adsEnabled:true,awsPath:news,byline:,canonicalURL:,contentSourceCode:USAT,createDate:2019-12-06T19:13:49.126Z,credit:USA TODAY,duration:33000,headline:'Coffee rat' runs divided with coffee crater on New York transport track,hlsURL:https:\/\/hlsmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/7ae16466-2129-4dff-a7be-e45c5226b294\/1080p_30fps,720p_30fps,480p_30fps,master.m3u8,id:4355951002,image:{url:https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/12\/06\/USAT\/2fa59b04-8627-49c5-9f2a-5bd27d135e93-VPC_RAT_CARRIES_COFFEE_DESK.jpg,opto:true},initialPublishDate:2019-12-06T19:23:31.648Z,keywords:New York,Video Syndication - USAT,mp4URL:https:\/\/downloadmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/7ae16466-2129-4dff-a7be-e45c5226b294\/1080p_30fps.mp4,origin:USA TODAY,pageURL:{long:https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/news\/2019\/12\/06\/coffee-rat-new-york-subway-track-scampers-away-coffee-cup\/4355951002\/},promoBrief:A rodent was held scampering off with a coffee crater on a New York transport track.,publishDate:2019-12-06T19:23:31.648Z,series:,ssts:{leafName:news,path:news,section:news,storysubject:,subsection:,subtopic:,taxonomyEntityDisplayName:News,topic:},tags:[{id:65c3c419-a598-428f-9d35-c7a0b9926b07,name:New York},{id:6f55135f-3b5e-490d-8a52-a3b8e1f11ee7,name:Video Syndication - USAT}],title:'Coffee rat' on New York transport lane scampers divided with coffee cup,url:\/videos\/news\/2019\/12\/06\/coffee-rat-new-york-subway-track-scampers-away-coffee-cup\/4355951002\/}\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/c1683_2fa59b04-8627-49c5-9f2a-5bd27d135e93-VPC_RAT_CARRIES_COFFEE_DESK.jpg\" data-g-r=\"vp_po\" \/><\/button><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Nothing can get between New Yorkers and their morning coffee \u2013 and apparently, this even extends to a city&#8217;s rodent population.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">New York City&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">&#8220;Pizza Rat&#8221;<\/a> went viral in 2015 and given then, other rats have been seen carrying slices, but\u00a0now, Twitter user Melissa Walker <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">has posted a video<\/a> of a rodent carrying a coffee crater while watchful for a 3 sight in Brooklyn.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Walker\u00a0shared a video of a rodent carrying a\u00a0cup opposite a transport height on Twitter Wednesday. &#8220;Made my whole day!!&#8221; she captioned a video, that she remarkable was taken during a Franklin Avenue station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">She deemed a small quadruped #coffeerat. And now, like Pizza Rat before it, Coffee Rat\u00a0has left viral.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1202342086651129861\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Other Twitter users reacted to a video, some even had theories about where Coffee Rat was headed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Mike Billips <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">responded<\/a> to Walker&#8217;s strange twitter with a joke:\u00a0&#8220;Best partial is, he&#8217;s bringing that coffee to a trainer rat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1202362429046476803\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">NYCT Subway<\/a>, an central Twitter comment for a Metropolitan Transportation Authority,\u00a0also piped in, extraordinary about what line &#8220;Coffee Rat&#8221;\u00a0was watchful to house during a dusk rush.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Good evening,&#8221; NYCT Subway wrote.\u00a0&#8220;Coffee Rat&#8217;s in a bit of a hurry. Can we tell us that line and height during Franklin Av this is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1202345049595555854\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And another user, Billy Freeland, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">wrote<\/a> that a video was reminicent\u00a0of a New Yorker repository cover comparing\u00a0a rodent and a tellurian in a subway.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1202432773308456960\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Coffee Rat is advantageous to live in New York; a caffeine-seeking critter\u00a0might have been slapped with a<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"> sheet for eating or celebration on other cities&#8217; metro platforms.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Rats are &#8216;running wild&#8217;:<\/strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">New York City private 110 rabble cans. Now rubbish is overflowing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/dbee1_636602023083077235-ny-Subway-Jen-Davis-NYCGo.com.jpg\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/1d6ce4a7ddd38c105abe50d14e879900ff8464ed\/c=0-242-1951-1344\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/04\/24\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/636602023083077235-ny-Subway-Jen-Davis-NYCGo.com.jpg?width=1320height=744fit=cropformat=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/611850304\/0\/usatodaycomtravel-topstories~NYCs-Pizza-Rat-has-some-competition-Meet-Coffee-Rat\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing can get between New Yorkers and their morning coffee \u2013 and apparently, this even extends to a city&#8217;s rodent population.\u00a0 New York City&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Pizza Rat&#8221; went viral in 2015 and given then, other rats have been seen carrying slices, but\u00a0now, Twitter user Melissa Walker has posted a video of a rodent carrying a coffee crater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-196031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}