LONDON, Dec. 30 (UPI) — A London man looking into the window of a closed clothing shop spotted a huge rat running around inside and captured video of the massive rodent.
Martin Peaple, 28, said he was drinking at the Kings Arms pub in the Bexleyheath area of London on Christmas Eve when he went out for a cigarette and decided to check out the veracity of rumors claiming a giant rat was just inside the window of the Primark store across the street.
“So we went and there it was, running up and down. The shop was shut and it was there all night,” Peaple told This Is Local London.
He said in a Facebook post that Primark staff had apparently been aware of the rat when they closed the store.
“That’s just wrong. You have to get it out, especially over the Christmas period. That’s just nasty,” he said. “I definitely won’t be going back there again.”
Peaple’s video quickly went viral on Facebook and Twitter.
“It’s not the sort of thing you expect to see in a shop,” he told the Evening Standard.