Caught on camera: Huge rat crawls on sleeping NYC subway rider

NEW YORK --Rat sightings in subway stations are nothing new for New Yorkers -- but rats crawling on people in the subway takes it to a whole new level.

A video of a sleeping New York subway rider with a huge rat crawling up his leg and neck is now making its rounds on the Internet, CBS New York reported.

Witness Antony Lin captured an unidentified rider sleeping as the rodent scurried up his body on Sunday morning around 3 a.m.

"3AM on the 7 train. MTA subways come equipped with cuddly rats," Lin posted to Instagram.

A comment thread began on the startling post where Lin said the "dude was screaming and ran into the next car fast as hell."

Lin also said he panicked when the man awoke because he didn't want the man to see he was filming the horrifying incident.

Unfortunately, this is not the first incident of a rat rudely waking a passenger.

A similar incident was captured in 2011 when a rat ran across the aisle and climbed up onto seats, before eventually crawling up the leg of a sleeping man and onto his face.