Bangkok rats desert a sinking city to dog’s great confusion (Video)

Get too close to any sewer or garbage heap and chances are a rat may scurry out. But what about dozens squirming into a rodent pyramid like a many-tailed horror?

One person decided to film them and put them on TikTok. In a video going viral today online, a roiling swarm of rats pile atop each other to escape drowning on a utility pole in a wet part of Bangkok while a confused dog nibbles at them.

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Viewers agreed that the scene unfolded on Soi Nakniwat 22 in the Lat Phrao district. Naturally, many expressed disgust at the goosebump-inducing sight, which is relatively common when Bangkok floods.

The video had been watched over a million times as of Tuesday afternoon.