After hearing this story, one's gotta wonder... when will the New York City rat madness end?

Just yesterday, a tourist by the name of Don Richards told Fox that he was waiting for a train on President Street in Brooklyn when he filmed the borderline... well, unbelievable. 

He saw a man passed out on the subway platform, leaning up against a staircase wall, when a rat climbed atop the man's chest and startled him awake. 

Amazingly enough, this man's cell phone dropped during all of the madness and it incredibly managed to snap off a selfie of the rat as it scurried off him and away. 

We know... this story's almost too good to be true, right? 

Well, watch the video below, courtesy of Daily Mail, and judge for yourself whether this was all a publicity stunt or just another case of "Only in NYC."