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VIDEO: Brooklyn 'Pigeon Rat' Puts Pizza Rat to Shame

By Savannah Cox | October 13, 2015 2:19pm
 A rat inflicts major damage on a pigeon in Williamsburg.
A rat inflicts major damage on a pigeon in Williamsburg.
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John Freund/YouTube

For big-time city rats, pigeons — not pizza — are prime street eats.

In August 2014, John Freund uploaded a video of a decidedly not adorable rat taking down one hapless pigeon in Williamsburg and then dragging its body into a bush.

Unlike its pizza-eating counterpart, this fowl-feasting rat reminds us that yes, rats are indeed disgusting and there is a reason why they survived the plague.

Watch the video, recently unearthed by Gawker, below. Resilience has never looked so disturbing: