Video: Insanely Tenacious Rat Won't Leave Lincoln Park Urgent Care Alone

By Rachel Cromidas in News on Feb 29, 2016 7:29PM

Chicago finally has its answer to New York City's infamous Pizza Rat, and it's an insanely tenacious rat that for some reason really wanted inside a Lincoln Park urgent care last weekend.

A woman posted a Youtube video of the encounter between the employee of the Immediate MD urgent care at 121 W. North Ave. and the rat; she can be heard on tape reacting with pitch-perfect disgust to the scene. The rat scrambled up the scrubs-clad employee's pants leg and the handle of a broom, and clung to just about anything he could to avoid getting shut out of the clinic (not entirely unlike how I behaved while trying to get a strep throat test last week).

A description under the video elaborates: "No joke...pre-video taping, rat pounces man's leg, man in scrubs furiously shakes leg to eject rat; rat is unstoppable and man resorts to broom."

You hear that, NYC? Chicago's rats are unstoppable.