Rats, man. When they're not stealing pizza or spreading the bubonic plague, they're camping out in your car's engine bay and chewing through exactly the right wires to send everything up in flames. Here in New York City, where our furry little friends just might outnumber the people, it's a real concern if you leave you car sitting outside for any extended period of time. And for one Brooklyn man, last Friday went from bad to worse to weird after a rat-caused fire destroyed his Volkswagen Golf...and the whole thing was caught on video by none other than Tony Hawk.

Alec Steinfeld told WGN TV that after parking his car on his block for a solid week, he hopped in last Friday to drive to Manhattan and immediately "smelled roadkill." But this is New York, where you don't get through the day without an olfactory assault or two, so he kept driving. About four miles into the city, the car seemed to "overheat" and smoke began pouring out of the hood. Then came the flames, the fire department...and the grisly discovery of a couple charred, dead baby rats under the hood.