<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e0c5ffe8-7453-47f9-9649-b0fb230790fe/CDF1B211-7A51-40F2-A700-0D33E2D57264/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gothamist.com/2009/10/23/possibly_the_saddest_thing_ever_rat.php?gallery0Pic=1" href="http://gothamist.com/2009/10/23/possibly_the_saddest_thing_ever_rat.php?gallery0Pic=1" style="font-size: 11px;">gothamist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gothamist.com/2009/10/23/possibly_the_saddest_thing_ever_rat.php?gallery0Pic=1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/gothamist.com/img/13A216A3-F432-4F44-B4D1-606AD361ECCF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gothamist.com/2009/10/23/possibly_the_saddest_thing_ever_rat.php?gallery0Pic=1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/gothamist.com/img/6596F440-54BB-4A3D-9392-2481B9FB08F0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gothamist.com/2009/10/23/possibly_the_saddest_thing_ever_rat.php?gallery0Pic=1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/gothamist.com/img/0B89BA6A-C8EB-4F3D-B1CC-B84341C83BB6" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gothamist.com/2009/10/23/possibly_the_saddest_thing_ever_rat.php?gallery0Pic=1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/gothamist.com/img/D7A634D7-8691-4C63-8C07-22EF5BF4E757" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gothamist.com/2009/10/23/possibly_the_saddest_thing_ever_rat.php?gallery0Pic=1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/gothamist.com/img/77508C0E-F474-4BE3-A795-944D873DCABB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gothamist.com/2009/10/23/possibly_the_saddest_thing_ever_rat.php?gallery0Pic=1"><P>Reader Wayne sent us this photograph and explains, "I was walking along and texting. Not really paying that much attention. Then something caught my eye. I thought I was about to step in dog shit, but quickly realized it was a rat stuck in the sidewalk. A big rat. It had tried to squeeze through a crack in the sidewalk and failed."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gothamist.com/2009/10/23/possibly_the_saddest_thing_ever_rat.php?gallery0Pic=1"><P><B>Update 10/24</B>: <A href="http://gothamist.com/2009/10/24/sad_rat_in_sidewalk_forever.php" linkindex="39">More Photoshopped Sad Rat photographs here</A>, plus a poll asking what you would do if you saw a rat emerging from a sidewalk. And Wayne got back to our questions. He says, "It was on my block on the Upper West Side. 82nd Street between CPW and Columbus. I thought it was alive, but after getting up the nerve to poke it with a (long) stick, I realized he was dead. I did what any wonderful caring masculine New Yorker would do, I told the doorman about it and ran off to work. That night the sidewalk with spic and span. I hear the Eulogy was beautiful and moved some to tears."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CDF1B211-7A51-40F2-A700-0D33E2D57264/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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