The duck waddled onto the tracks in Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Move over, pizza rat – it’s now a duck’s time to get its 15 minutes of fame in the New York City subway system.
A wayward bird halted a train in Brooklyn Friday morning as police removed it from the tracks.
Earlier this morning, a duck tried to get on the Jefferson L train platform (@MTA). Poor thing. pic.twitter.com/H8cqDFmqHa
— Aaron L. Morrison (@aaronlmorrison) March 17, 2017
“They didn't have to fight much," Sarah Daniel, a resident who was heading to her job in Manhattan, told Gothamist when describing the rescue. "They just picked it up."
A police spokeswoman said officers later "released it back into the wild” and “it flew away."
Prior to going onto the tracks, a commuter filmed a video of the duck scurrying around the station and posted it on Twitter. The duck appeared startled in the video.
"I'm glad he had a happy ending," Daniel told Gothamist.
Last September, a rat in Manhattan made headlines for being filmed dragging a slice of pizza down the stairs at a station.
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