Rat Walks Into Duane Reade...

While it's not as scary as a dozens of rats running around a fast food restaurant, seeing a rat at your local Duane Reade can be alarming. WABC 7's Eyewitness News thought so when they spotted a rat at the Broadway and West 94th Street location. The Health Department is on the way to investigate, but an employee reportedly told WABC 7 "the rat entered from the street when a customer opened the door."

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By Jen Chung in News on July 29, 2008 12:44 PM

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NannyState

That rat chewed through the last bits of a dead junkie and needed an OxyContin fix bad.

JenChungsBaby

The rat must have had a Chase card.

GlennQuagmire

Maybe the rat was applying for a cashier position.

cucarachita

If he went in to pick up his bubonic plague medication, the pharmacist will have humiliated him by yelling out his name and prescription for all to hear, poor little rat.

:)

That's how they do it at DR!

sourus

I call for a DR boycott. Seriously they are evil

thefacts

And the parks are just teeming with squirrels - rats with nice fur coats and better p.r.

ny2102

Oh. Great. That's my Duane Reade.

Dear Duane Reade: you don't need 4 billion locations. You just need more than one cashier per store.

ANGRYGOD11

So, a rat enters Duane Reade and gets some shampoo. He goes to the counter to pay.

Cashier takes his money and says to him: "We usually don't get many rats buying shampoo".

"Yeah, and at these prices I'm not surprised"

Thank you very much and good night!

brxbmrzfan

the rat would have a better personality than 99% of the people that work at DRs.

Rfive

Two classic gothamist stories: stickers in soho and rats(mice) in a store.

triggerzer0

I just saw a mouse on mercer and houston just minding his business, hiding a car, in broad day light ...even!

it's fine, they are just the cutest lil things!!!

Spirit of 76

All these rats in the city and the Port Authority can't figure out something better to do with the cats around JFK than to kill them. Idiots.