The rat appeared three hours after Kevin Coop started the journey.
The video of a rat taking a car ride to a wedding in the US has gone viral on social media. It was posted by Brooklyn resident Kevin Coop on Instagram. Mr. Koop showed off the special plus one at a wedding he attended in upstate New York. According to the BBC, the rat showed up nearly three hours into the driveway and shocked other guests upon its arrival. However, the rodent was gone when Mr. Coop drove home.
“Holy hell!” In the video, Mr. Coop can be heard screaming as the rat runs onto his windshield.
“I just got far upstate and brought a rat with me,” he added.
After sitting on the hood of the car for some time and checking the side of the vehicle, the rat nimbly walked back to safety and over the windshield wipers.
Mr. Coop stopped the car to find where the rodent was hiding. It appeared briefly on the car’s engine shield and then disappeared into a small hole.
“I don’t know where it went!” Mr. Coop said before warning the rat, “Just don’t eat my wires!”
The humorous video comes as New York struggles with a spike in rat sightings.
The guard said in a report last month that tour guides are tailoring excursions in one of the most visited cities in the world to take them on a quest to spot squeaking and squeaking rodents.
The driving force behind this trend is social media influencers like Kenny Bollwerk, who has built a TikTok following by posting videos from around New York as rodent guides.
The exponential growth of New York’s rat population is attributed to the pandemic, when the rodents found ample shelter and food in food sheds.
There were more than 60,000 reports of rat activity across the city in 2022 – a shocking 102 percent increase from 2021. New York Post said citing data from the Ministry of Health.
