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Take a hike, Pizza Rat — New York City's latest rat sensation is the Henny Rat. 

SNY anchor Chris Williamson was walking down a Brooklyn street on February 14 when he spotted the unusual sight of a rat that appeared to have been 'passed out' on the sidewalk while clutching an empty bottle of Hennessy, he told NBC New York. 

Williamson preserved the image and posted it on Twitter for posterity, alongside the caption, 'Just another day in New York City.'    

SNY anchor Chris Williamson tweeted out this picture of a rat that appeared to have 'passed out' on the sidewalk while clutching an empty bottle of Hennessy

Twitter users were quick to put a snarky spin on the situation in Williamson's photo

The tweet quickly went viral as social media users hurried to add their snarky takes on the prone rat and empty liquor bottle image. 

'Must've had a hell of a night,' tweeted @JasmineLWatkins, to which Williamson joked in response, 'He/she was drinking away the pain from the Knicks’ 18th straight loss.'   

'The king of New York...heavy is the crown,' @robkcostello tweeted. 

'Pizza rat fell on hard times,' @PardonMyRicci wrote. 

'He was hanging with the pizza rat,' @LBoogie213 wrote, prompting Williamson to note that Henny Rat and Pizza Rat 'are best friends.' 

'Yo I use to love Stuart Little, it’s a shame how much alcohol can change someone,' @Brycekauf tweeted, referring to the main character of EB White's classic children's novel.

Both Williamson (left) and Patton Oswalt (right) tweeted out pictures of Henny Rat

Oswalt tweeted out an even more partied-out shot of Henny Rat, this time with cigarettes

Many tweeters referenced Disney's food-obsessed Ratatouille when tweeting about Henny Rat

Henny Rat joins a long line of famous New York City rats including 2015's Pizza Rat (shown)

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Other tweets continued the fictional rodent theme by referencing Disney's animated film, Ratatouille. 

Patton Oswalt even got in on the action, tweeting out an even more partied-out image of Henny Rat, along with the caption, 'First day shooting RATA2OUILLE! There were creative differences with [director] @BradBirdA113 but the new script and directing by Abel Ferrara are fantastic!'

In Oswalt's photo, which appears to have been first posted by Instagram user newyorknico, and was tweeted out the day before Williamson's shot, Henny Rat can be seen lying on its back between the Hennessy bottle and an empty pack of Newport cigarettes. 

When asked which image came first, Williamson tweeted that he was 'pretty sure' the cigarette and booze photo was the original and that he just stumbled upon the scene 'after he created the art.' 

Henny Rat joins a long line of New York City rats — including 'pretzel rat,' 'avocado rat' and 'pole-dancing rat' — famous for their amusing shenanigans. 

Most notorious is Pizza Rat, which first came to fame in 2015 when it was spotted attempting to drag a slice of pizza, that was bigger that it was, down the subway steps in Manhattan. Pizza Rat, or its cousin, made another appearance in 2018, when a straphanger spotted the rat towing a slice of pizza behind it on the 6 train. 

Unlike the other NYC rats, Henny Rat appears to be a dead rat.  

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