Roaches, Rats: Your Fellow Straphangers

yesterday on the F train to brooklyn, there was a rat casually walking around the platform at East Broadway.

Someone on the train said "It's because the tracks are too clean!"

Seriously, though, why all the bagged garbage left to sit on the platforms?

Because if they ran the garbage train during the day, people would freak out at the delays.

Spiny, the garbage pickup trains run only after midnight, so the bags just sit there all day until they get picked up at night.

bloomie is the biggest rodent on the mass transit system.

oh, he is the mayor isnt he? pay more get less.

Felixthecat and schadenfreudian mensch recently I saw a bedbug crawling on a man’s arm. I was leaning against the door and he was holding the pole near me. Every time the train jolted I feared the little bloodsucking bastard would make me his new home. I wanted to tell the man but I was afraid he would move his arm before the bug could be killed. It wasn’t the first time I’ve seen bedbugs in the subway. I saw one on the D train once walking alongside the map.

The state of the subway is disgusting. Smelly hobos and their pet rats are one thing but when bedbugs, fleas and other little bloodsuckers lurking that can infest my house become an issue it’s time to carry raid in my purse right next to the mace.

Seriously, though, why all the bagged garbage left to sit on the platforms? Half the rats I see these days are happily frolicking through piles of trash bags.

I can only imagine the chaos after that rat... Roaches would have me jumping up and down like a lunatic! (ephwwww!)

The other day I encountered a very polite rate, coming up the stairs of the Prospect Park station. I was heading down and it stopped on the very first step. I looked at it. It looked at me. I made a "you go on" gesture and we both kept going our separate ways. I'm sure it made a polite "thank you" nod, but I'm going blind so couldn't make it out.

@ schadenfreudian mensch, your're RIGHT. Damn, I really scared of bed bugs. I would end up throwing out my bed and sofa and seats and sleep on the floor with my cat. DAMN

Ratatouille changed my opinion forever...what with all those cute little computer animated rats making delicious food stuffs.

Always avoid the Roach Coach.

It looks like a transit worker passes at the end of the video and he's probably thinking "a homeless guy swinging a bottle at a rat on the platform - so what else is new?"

I've seen them. Just trying to get by. Here's one now.

Maybe if they make all the rats a roaches pay a full fair they maybe able to reduce the fair.

RAT CHASE!!!

Who would bring a rat on a train!?

Every third or fourth morning I see rats on the platform at 1st. ave.& 14th (L) so I am not surprised to hear that one hopped on a train.

They used to go in and out of these drainage holes that were on the platform, but recently I noticed they were sealed up - so they can't make a quick escape into the wall. just plain gross.

What's even more disgusting is when they fight they make this horrible screeching sound - something I was introduced to on the same platform !

I saw a giant waterbug on the stairs at 57th/7th this morning.

Yeah! I saw a big rat named Mayor Boom me.

riding on the Lexington avenue subway just

for the Publicity value of it.

He had plainclothes cops with him so no

chance of seeing a rat.

Like I always say whenever somebody calls pigeons "rats with wings," you don't see people screaming in terror when a pigeon walks by. We need more subway cats.

hahahaha, that's funny shit right ther

... really34th Street is bad, too, if you happen to be in the first car of the uptown N or W and look out the window to the left.

I always wondered what would happen if they decided to hop on, now I know: hysteria.

The pack at 34th Street has been poisoned, I felt bad seeing them stumbling about one morning.

I Was on a 2 or 3 (don't remember) a few weeks ago that had a roach rider. Everyone had their feet up on the bench after that. I was surprised that no one tried to squash it.

Additionally, I was on the G platform at Metropolitan the other night and encountered a very old, decrepit, and lumbering rat who really didn't give a fuck and was wandering pretty much anywhere he felt like.

Hmm, well i've seen roaches on the train for years & you would think considering i'm on an express train 2-3 stops out of Coney Island where they originate SOMEONE would do a quick run through, sweep up the trash, vomit, etc. I'm terrrified to rest my head back against the wall because of the roaches i've seen. I have noticed an excessive amount of bugs lately, our apartment has been a camping ground for flies recently and we've done a body search for the old ladies that live above, no such luck.

@felixthecat

Actually the worse thing would be bedbugs jumping on you and you wouldn't even know it.

http://gothamist.com/2008/05/08/bedbugs_found_o.php

Ronkonkoma: 34th Street is bad, too, if you happen to be in the first car of the uptown N or W and look out the window to the left. Disgusting. Four or five rats at a time, hanging out around a pile of trash bags and slipping out from under a set of double doors, which probably lead to more trash bags.

Why is there so much trash left to sit on the platforms? A friend of mine from out of town asked me that question while we were watching a couple of rats crawling around on the bags, and I had no idea how to respond.

I was on this L train this morning! I was wondering when the little thing thought that getting on a train with dozens of people was a good idea? I swear, the animals and insects in NYC are tougher than anywhere I've been before.

oh that's real good, the two trains i take everyday.. time to buy a bike

The worst thing is a flea jump on me from a dirty man passing through the train asking for money. I was relieved I killed it since I would have brought the flea back home to my pets. It would have been a disaster.

There are entire rat family reunions at the 50th street station C+E platform. I've never seen anything like this before.