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Rat Got Head Stuck in Garbage Can - Rescued by FDNY Paramedic (6 Photos)

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Aaaw. Look at that face! And we thought they could get in an out of anything! Not this one apparently. Lucky for him there was help on the way. Great folks those FDNY Paramedics...

(Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

A Brooklyn rat whose hunger for knowledge stretched wider than his whiskers would allow ended up needing a helping hand Tuesday when he got his head stuck in a city garbage can. 

The rat was rooting around the bottom of the wire-mesh can in Brooklyn when he saw a series of ventilation holes.

(Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters)