Rat takes selfie with sleeping man's phone

The cheeky rat spotted his opportunity for a quick photoshoot when he came across a man sleeping on the platform in the President Street subway station in Crown Heights, New York.

Climbing up onto the stranger's lap, the rat somehow managed to take a close-up shot of himself before the slumbering man was finally disturbed from his nap.

The man awoke to the flash of the camera and also to close-up shot of the rat’s snout in his picture library, reports the New York Daily News.

The hilarious moment was captured on camera by Don Richards, a tourist visiting a friend in Brooklyn, Fox61 reported.

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