Plucky 'Pizza Rat' Inspires Its Own Hashtag

Only in New York City: A new YouTube video shows a rat dutifully dragging its slice of cheese pizza down the stairs into a subway station, UPI reports. The rat sadly gives up on its prize, but Matt Little's video is still going viral and inspiring all kinds of tweets with the hashtag #pizzarat. USA Today rounds up a few:

• I have taken the pizza wasted on the subway forgive me it was wasted on the ground forgive me it was so pizza and I'm a rat—Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) September 21, 2015
• Coming soon on @Medium: "Why I'm leaving New York," by #pizzarat—Carlos Lozada (@CarlosLozadaWP) September 21, 2015
• 2016 candidates on #pizzarat: Trump: Thief! Hillary: Every rat deserves a slice Rubio: It needs water Jeb!: I smoked a rat once—Brian Ries (@moneyries) September 21, 2015
• I hope one day after I make it as a writer someone asks me how I found the perseverance not to quit. And I'll just share a gif of #pizzarat.—Emily Timbol (@EmilyTimbol) September 21, 2015

Now a guy named Kurt Fraser has posted a little competition, tweeting that "# pizzarat is cool and all but check out # cigarettecrab." Indeed, he's photographed a crab sitting by a curb with a once-lit cigarette in its claw. (More viral video stories.)