As the cover was pulled up, the rat's dangling legs and tail could been in a video ... the large rat had lots of 'winterspeck' or 'winter fat' on its body. And even though the rescue mission ...

The nightmare of every subway rider was caught on video after a chubby sewer rat crawled up the leg of a sleeping straphanger on a No. 4 train in Brooklyn and came face-to-face with the man.

For David Gomez, a 24-year-old East Boston resident, that feeling took on a whole new meaning on the night before Thanksgiving when a fearless, even affable rat crawled up his leg as he was out ...