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    That's no rat! Opossum takes ride on NYC subway

    NEW YORK (AP) — A suspicious passenger of the four-legged variety led to the evacuation of a New York City subway car.

    Startled riders aboard a Manhattan-bound train spotted an opossum curled up underneath a seat near the train's heating duct around 4:30 a.m. on Friday.

    The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/xpHJ9f) reports the animal apparently boarded the train at Coney Island in Brooklyn, where the platform is above ground. The subway car was evacuated several stops later in Manhattan as officers wearing heavy gloves tried to remove it. When the marsupial bared its teeth at them, animal control experts were called in.

    Rats and pigeons are often seen in the city's subways, but NYC Transit spokesman Charles Seaton says it's the first time anybody could remember a wild animal in the system.

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    Information from: The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com

     

    61 comments

    • this crazy life of ours  •  New York, New York  •  4 mths ago
      That's not true, we have wild beasts that ride the system on a daily basis. I come across them every day!
    • Norman T  •  Cincinnati, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      Good Lord, what would they do if they saw an armadillo? "Possum on the half shell"
    • Chris  •  Austin, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      What ... Rats and pigeons arent wild animals? I guess they are just public pets.
    • Al B Taken V  •  4 mths ago
      Revised Headline: Unauthorized subway rider playing possum with NYPD.
    • John  •  4 mths ago
      Possums do have some wicked looking teeth.
      • Tai-274-Wan 4 mths ago
        They are harmless, noneoftheless
      • Erin 4 mths ago
        The teeth are all for show. They have terrible eyesite and are harmless as long as you carry them by the tail. When they start to curl up towards your hand you just lower them to the ground. When they feel the ground under them, they straighten out again. I used to have to remove them from my chicken coop all the time. They love eggs.
    • Kirara  •  Salt Lake City, Utah  •  4 mths ago
      "Rats and pigeons are often seen in the city's subways, but NYC Transit spokesman Charles Seaton says it's the first time anybody could remember a wild animal in the system." Rats and Pigions ARE wild animals, it is just that they are commonly seen in the city.
      • watson 4 mths ago
        I think rats and pidgeons is New York slalng for Brokers and their customers.
      • kenneth 4 mths ago
        Pidgeons are rats with wings.
    • Jasper  •  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  •  4 mths ago
      I regularly toss one over the fence at night when the dogs start barking at it and it plays dead. Just scoop it up with a shovel and lay in on the other side of the fence. Problem solved. Another one likes any leftover catfood, he has a beautiful silky coat and will sit and eat it while you stand next to him, or the cat is sitting there. Docile animals generally.
      • Don 4 mths ago
        Docile til the give you rabies!
      • SuperAnna 4 mths ago
        The possums that would hang out in our garage were mean little things! You would turn on the lights and they would growl and hiss at you!
      • Jeffrey 4 mths ago
        @Don: The Opossum Society of the United States says "Any mammal can get rabies. However, the chance of rabies in an opossum is EXTREMELY RARE. This may have something to do with the opossum’s low body temperature (94-97º F) making it difficult for the virus to survive in an opossum’s body."

        @SuperAnna: In general, opossums are docile, non-aggressive animals. They hiss and show their teeth in order to scare you away from them.
    • Pete Bogs  •  4 mths ago
      Wow. We see opossums here every day. Can't imagine one shutting down mass transit. They DO look like huge rats, though.
    • .  •  4 mths ago
      He wanted out of the ghetto. Can't say I blame him.
    • Richard  •  Charlottesville, Virginia  •  4 mths ago
      What? Hasn't anybody in NYC ever heard of Croquettes d' opossum à l'arlésienne?
    • Felicia  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  4 mths ago
      We had a "pet" opossum. It showed up one night when it was still very little. Our dog had the poor thing backed in a corner barking at it. We took our dog back inside and the opossum went on it's way but it came back every night walking along the top of the fence. We watched grow up this way.
    • Gary Gilmore Jr  •  4 mths ago
      Skunks also have been known to ride the NYC subway. But they usually debark at the Wall Street stop.....
    • Locke  •  4 mths ago
      They knew it wasn't a NYC rat because it was too small.
    • Sick and Tired...  •  Lubbock, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      One followed my cat cat home one morning. Strange looking critter, but the cat didn't seem worried about it.
    • MB  •  4 mths ago
      I guess Rats and Birds in NYC are not wild animals but instead common folk...
    • A Yahoo! User  •  New York, New York  •  4 mths ago
      So what happened to the possum?
    • Eleanor of Aquitaine  •  Lynden, Washington  •  4 mths ago
      As someone who has done wildlife rehab, Opposums are some of the best tempered critters I ever met. Yes, they are smelly and unattractive, but they are sweethearts. The gloves should have been just fine. You gently grab the tail and slide them out of whatever they've gotten themselves in to. In 3 years, I've only been bit once by a possum (she objected to her medicine) and it didn't even really hurt.
    • An October Bronx  •  Louisville, Kentucky  •  4 mths ago
      Smart opossum.
    • AnothaGiantsPassrushonyoa ...  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  4 mths ago
      NYPD pepper sprayed it...
    • dynamohum  •  San Antonio, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      stop playing possum and show me your ticket.or get off at the next stop
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