Rats   get a bad knock .

Yes , okay , they’reunkillable , disease - riddenfleabags who occasionally , uh , eat people awake . But they ’re also level-headed , highly empatheticandsurprisingly relatablelittle critters whoprobably enjoyedRatatouillejust as much as you did .

And now , one murine resident of Washington DC has shown they can be safe - witting members of the community as well .

Last summer , a condo construction in the District was evacuate after a fire alarm sounded . But , strangely , there was no fire   – so what pass ? A bug ? A noisy consequence of theongoing climate apocalypse ?

No   – it was a rat .

catch red - pawed on security measures footage , the little cat literally jumped onto the   alarm from a nearby balustrade and pulled it down , position off the siren . It is , however , strange at this point whether the rotter was pulling a prank or simply being overcautious .

Washington DC has a prospicient history with mayhem - cause rodents   – in 1967 a undivided ratleft a third of the District without power for 45 minutesafter it chewed through the wires of a local major power post . And despite the local government’sinventive range of weaponsin the " eternal state of war " between bum and human ,   their number have only develop   in late years .

This particular roguishness - Creator , however , has won essence on Twitter thanks to his can - do , safe - witting attitude .

Although some people got weirdly tribal about which metropolis have the good rats .

of course , people could n’t aid compare the # FireAlarmRat to his unearthly harbinger , the original rodent sensation that wasPizza Rat . Seen by many as embodying the plucky , compulsive , and above all pizza - screw soul of New York , Pizza Rat went viral back in 2015 after thousands of citizenry watched him do what we ’d all do if we found a slice bigger than our intact trunk : dragging that badboy home on the underpass for dinner .

So part with a thinking for rats . They might be unsporting , but they ’re also refuge - conscious , pizza - loving goofball who loveticklesandheroin . And that whole black death thing ? That wasprobably just a misunderstanding .

After all , how can you stay brainsick at a critter who literally lives in a chemical group collectively calleda maleficence ?