Woman forced to drop pants on New York subway after giant rat runs up her trouser leg

A hotel supervisor was forced to drop her pants in the middle of a full midtown subway car Friday — when a brazen rat darted up her trouser leg.

Ana Vargas, 40, said she was sitting in an A train heading downtown as it approached the Columbus Circle station about 7:50 a.m. when the rodent suddenly sprang.

“I thought it was my pants

moving,” Vargas told the Daily News. “It just crawled up my leg. I shook it and nothing came out.”

But then she realized she was being attacked.

“I said, ‘Oh, my God — it’s an animal on my leg!’ ” she recalled.

“He was very big. I was shaking, but nothing was coming out . . . I had to pull my pants down in front of everyone on the train.”

Vargas, who works as a supervisor at the Doubletree by Hilton hotel in midtown, said three men tried to shield her from flashing everyone on the train as she shook the furry culprit loose.

“I grabbed his head, because he was scratching me,” she said. “I didn’t want it to bite.”

The train came to a stop and Vargas dropped the rat as she ran for help on the platform.

“I was very nervous,” she said. “I was shivering, shaking — everything.”

Cops soon arrived and called a crew of EMTs to take Vargas to Roosevelt Hospital, where she was treated for scratches to her leg and thigh.

“It was burning me, but the doctors say it’s normal,” she said.

The rail-riding rat went missing after the sneaky skirmish.

And now Vargas has PTSD from the experience: “I’m still nervous about it. I had to take pills to get to sleep last night because of what happened." “I don’t know what I’m going to do to get to work, but I don’t want to get on the train.”



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