Roving cuteporter Miss Heather over at NewYorkShitty found these anerable teeny subway shots. The photographer Victoria Belanger says:
“I’m a photographer for the DA’s office and there is a women there who makes these models (trains, apts, buildings, etc) for court cases, as a visual aid for the jury. The train is perfectly hamster sized so I brought my super tame hamster into work yesterday for a little photo shoot. They came out better than expected. I’m really excited about them.”
Our compliments to you, Sender-Inner Chef Mike! Via NewYorkShitty and BoingBoing.
LOLOL IT is like looking into the subway in San Francisco only with a giant adorable hamster
Sweet creamsicle hammy.
Picture One … Hamy says wow look at the subway art!!!
Picture two… Is this my stop?
REEE-donk! *singsong voice*
Well, I used to take the A train while living in NYC, NY.
(Heyyyy, Let’s take the A Traaaaiiiinnnn!)
(Love you, Meg!!
Me thinks hamster wants to re-enact that final scene from the Sandra Bullock / Keanu Reeves movie ‘Speed’..
Hammy has the same problem as lots of New Yorkers – butt is too big for the seats! Remember, don’t make eye contact, be discreet if you want to read the back of someone’s newspaper, and make sure to switch to the local if you need to get off somewhere between 59th and 125th St (on the A train)!
oh good lord. redonk qte.
don’t stop off for a gyro, lil hammie!!!
little hammy is spoiled for seats.
I never get a seat on my public transit *frowns*
Haha! I really did LOL.
Dun dun DUNNN!!! Monster Hamster In Subway – Film At Eleven!
Does anyone on here remember a show called Stories of the Riverbank or Tales of the Riverbank? With the scaled-down sets and the cast of rodents?
Awww, the blinky little eyes and dreamily clutched paws…I feel a musical number coming on! *Sung in tinny, wistful hammy voice* I used to think we lived at the top of the world, and the world was just a subway map, and the 1/9 climbed a dotted line to my place…
(Note to
selfhammies: When choosing musical numbers, next time pick one people might actually KNOW)The first shot is the number 4 train, just remember it runs express in Manhattan but DOES stop right underneath Bloomingdale’s! Sadly I’ve seen no hammies on the trains but I have seen the odd rattie on the track.
AmyJ: Yeah. Because the A train is express between 59th and 125th. At least it was in the ’80s.
The hovertexts are sadly lacking
Meg!!!
YES! I think I saw this on Gothamist, too.
Those subway cars are strangely empty. P
In the Heights FTW! Thanks for the laugh JupiterStar
Also, there’s no 9 train now!
In the second shot, with his little hammy paws together, it looks more like he should be singing the White Rabbit’s “I’m Late” song from Alice in Wonderland….
“I’m late, I’m late
For a very important date.
No time to say hello; goodbye!
I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!”
He ate all the commuters
@pounce: HAMMY HAMSTER!
Canadian seventies tv lives! (in my dreams of neurotic rodents having adventures on teeny little boats and rafts)
Am I the only one who wouldn’t mind jury duty so much if they had hamsters running around the courtroom?
With bonus points if they were dressed up as British barristers.
Cleanest damn subway I’ve seen….EVAR!
今天到博主这来逛一逛，呵呵
Hammy looks so wistful in that first pic. Like he’s just parted from a loved one and they’re still standing on the platform waving goodbye.
Is this ham-commuter (Hammuter? Commster?) on his way to work, or to a weeeeeee hamster version of Hogwarts?
omg!! too cute!!!
i can haz hovertext??
My hammy takes the mornin’ train
He works from 9 ’til 5 and then
He takes another home again
To find me waitin’ for him!
By the way, that may be the most sparlin’ clean hammy I’ve ever seen!! He’s way to clean to be on the subway with the unwashed masses!
cheesybird: He does look like that! And in the second picture he looks like he’s wringing his little hands and fretting. Maybe he’s late for an important meeting at work. Hey! Maybe he works for Mr. Manager and he’s afraid he’s in trouble!
Brilliant! Just brilliant!
Hi Katrina!!
I bet his girlfriend said she’d be waiting for him on the platform and she never showed up. Now he just keeps riding and riding up and down the line.
And our commentary has come full-circle back again/ Trains song lyrics:
A few weeks ago we had a train sub-plot, which brought everyone to songs/ trains & numerous ref’s to “Charlie” on the trains of Boston. Wikipedia says that this version (prob Kingston Trio’s earliest version that was popular) was actually developed from a very very ancient item that had referred to a song about a SHIP & never returning (new item to my archives, that one).
Anyway, here’s a bit from the Wiki about the lyrics…
(article title refers to the MTA- possibly Massach. Trans.Au????) ….
The song goes on to say that Charlie’s wife is able to hand him a sandwich every day (but not, for some reason, a nickel) “as the train comes rumbling through.”
The song is probably best known for its catchy chorus:
Did he ever return,
No he never returned
And his fate is still unlearn’d
He may ride forever
‘neath the streets of Boston
He’s the man who never returned.
Peace and creamsicle (sp??) hamsters to ALL on this bright Sunday morning.
Signed,
The present temperature in Jacksonville FL is WHAT?????
(47 DEGREES?????Ya gotta be kiddin’!)
Resriechan: Hey Research Kid! What’s the temperature here in Vegas right now? All I know is it’s cooooolllldddd. brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Wa’al, they-uh,” lil’ lady” (*snerk*)…..
but ya bettah get out ALL the “b’ankies”, sweatsuits, sweateuws and coats and mittens you own cuz ….estimated HIGH (??) temps predicted @ L Vegas this week (gulp): Mon= 49 Tues =48 Wed= 47 Thur= 48
(also it says 60% likely rainy weather tomorrow)
sorry, about that, “Nancy Drew” aka QoD
Them’s the facts, as listed on the NOAA weather webpage (by your zip code)
Suggestion: why don’t you consider moving to Tahiti? Pretty sure, that the daily weather there is generally sweeter …….
Signed,
Sam, Sam the Weather (Wo)Man
oops got carried away there (as often)….forgot the specific original. question:
Presently the most recent temp reading says 34 degrees; at least it’s
(just a hashmark or two, above freezing..)
Resriechan: That’s great! I love cold weather and rain is so rare here that it’s extremely welcome! Cold air is so beautiful after the summer of 573 degrees every day. Okay. It doesn’t get quite THAT hot. Yay! I get to break out my dusty, rusty umbrella?! (or bumbershoot as they’re called in Seattle).
CO Proprietors: We need more information from roving cuteporter Miss Heather, or, perhaps, photographer Victoria Belanger. They tell us that the trains were models used in a legal proceeding. But why, exactly, was this hamster suing the Transit Authority? I’m guessing that he was demanding that hamster-sized trains be added to the subway routes.
Oh, so that is why that Denzel Washington subway movie was called the Taking of PelHAM?
VonZep: The National Hamquirer has reported that he’s suing because the train broke down and he was stuck in the tunnel for seven hours. This caused him to miss a vital briefing at work which in turn meant that he could not go on the mission to explore the world in a roller ball. He was going to be the first hammie to summit Mt. Rodentia by rolling all the way up. (without supplemental oxygen). His sponsers were going to award him with tons of seeds and a large villa in the South of France (which had a whole room devoted to the running wheel) if he succeeded (which he was fully trained to do). So he’s suing the Transit Authority for that.
Hey Pounce,
I remember Tales From the Riverbank, it used to be in the ‘Watch With Mother’ slot here in the UK. My favourite was when they used to go boating up the ‘river’ in a plastic motorboat, usually a rat and a hamster, the boat wobbling madly, rodents trying to decide whether to swim for it….. Am I hallucinating or did the hamster have a little captain’s hat……..(must stop taking the tablets…)
@ QoD: WOW what a nice briefing you did. Are you a paralegal in additon to being a Cuteness ER Nurse and the contemporary Nancy Drew, investigator???
resriechan: No. I just got this information because my cat read read the four-legged-floof rags this morning and he told me about it as we were having breakfast. He kind of looked over his reading glasses at me and asked me if I was aware of this scandal/outrage. He seemed to think I was supposed to do something about it. The nursing and Nancy Drew stuff keeps me too busy for the paralegaling stuff.
QoD, that is an unusual cat you have. Very few cats keep up with the rodent news in the tabloids. Even fewer think that their human should stand up for the rights of hamsters.
At my house, Sam and Max (Freelance Dogs) don’t read the papers at all. They do watch a lot of TV. (Don’t tell them I said so, but they’re actually kind of d*mb.)
VonZep: I know. My cat is rather a strange bird. I keep trying to get an appointment with Dr. Lipswich for him because I think he needs to lighten up a bit. He’s only standing up for hammies because he likes to start a fuss about anything he can.
VonZep: I won’t tell Sam and Max you spilled the beans about all of the TV intake. By the way, my cat’s name is also Sam. (SamKitty, the first). He does the NY Times crossword puzzle with an ink fountain pen.
At least there are plenty of seats so he won’t have to be a straphamster.
WOWZA! Somebody REALLY has A LOT of time on their hands. That’s not to say it’s not cute.
Is that the last train to Clarksville?
This is a Brooklyn bound four train. Next stop is Burrow Hall. No smoking, spitting or radio playing. Stand clear of the closing doors. >BingBong<
@Phill, I was thinking more like “There’s a train in front of us, we’ll be moving shortly. Thank you for your cooperation.” ARRRGH!
Oh, the wistful expression in the first photo. It tugs at my heart…
Now DESPERATELY wanting to see the “apts, buildings, etc” decked out with this hamster. Especially the “et cetera”! The mind boggles with possibilities.
Re-enactment sets for CSI: My Hammy
OMG– “squee” doesn’t even come CLOSE to doing this post justice…
Oh, geez, I love you guys! (Oops — “y’all”)
Hammie in subway has me all tearing up — I was in NYC for the first time in years this fall, when I accompanied daughter #1 on her move to Brooklyn. We returned the moving truck & rode the subways & had a great time for the week I stayed. I mees her!!
@dub1 you cracked me up. CSI:My Hammy indeed.
That little ham is cleaner than the subway!
Suggested hovertext for second photo:
“Ladies and gentleman, I hate to disturb you on your commute, but I am asking anyone who can to spare any change you might have. I am a law-abiding citizen who is homeless and I am asking if you can give spare anything to help me find food.”
(I’m not being snarky, that’s really what it looks like…and I always gave change!)
Excellent announcing Phil, except of course on the NYC Subway you’d only be able to make out every 4th word that comes over the PA, except on the new trains because they have a robot voice. Hope little Hammy Davis Jr. up there didn’t get on the express thinking it was a local. Or worse yet getting on a local that you’re told will only run express. I hate when that happens!
HAHAHAHAAA! Whee! You’re so cute! (default squee expresh now, since that ring neck parrot)
OK folks, focus, now; FOCUS!!! Sing it, with me:
“This train don’t carry no gamblers, this train
(repeat)
…no crap shooters, no cigar-smokers….”
Signed,
NotpeterpaulORmary(RIP)
Nice to know that the DA’s office knows how to have fun!
@pounce: I have that show on VHS!! it’s still my favorite thing to watch
@dub1 – hahahaha, nice
…and through the open window she hands Charlie a peanut as the train came rumbling through…( an oldie but a goodie.)
Killer’s Daddy is a lawyer in a court. He works in a big, big building, There are no files that I could find from either party-of course we also don’t have a subway, (except a sandwich shop), so I guess that is why. I can’t believe I actually looked.
Do you get 7 day delivery QoD? Very immmm-pressive. Who (what) delivers the newspaper?
Katrina: No, I don’t. My cat stole my debit card and ordered this week’s copy on-line. Door to door delivery is done by storks. I’m fuzzy on where this thing is printed. My cat won’t tell me.
@ QoD:
You am funnois!!! (Franglais for humorous)
Resrie: He’s quite the rascal, that SamKitty.
At first look I assumed it was a normal-sized hammy on a miniature train….
)
Then, after further scrutiny, I thought it could be a monster-hammy on the A-train: Hamzilla!!!!..(the commuters have all crammed into the furthest-away car;
Hamzilla can now wreck havoc all by himself…..
PS: @All Of You:
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Methinks it is not the #4 train. The inside look more like R or Q train. The #4 has gray seats. Plus, it is more likely for R and Q to have giant hamsters, especially late at night. Or maybe those are big giant rats. Not sure.
My niece has always believed that beneath the streets of New York there is a city called New Hamsterdam. I am flabbergasted that there’s photographic evidence.
Camille – New Hamsterdam! Loff eet!
Ok these are just awesome photos, and give praise to the woman who makes these models. The hamster praying for the door to open is adorable. Thank you for sharing.
That can’t be a REAL subway car… it’s too CLEAN. (beautifully crafted)
I wonder if there’s a market for photo sessions of your pocket pets in tiny settings.
He looks like he has to get back to the Bronx from Coney Island while suffering relentless attacks from rival hamster gangs!
Oh, Hammies! Come out and pla-ay!
Cool! Compliments to your model maker, Mike!
If only the 4 train was so uncrowded. I can’t wait for them to put in the 2nd ave line.
Damn furry panhandlers.
I confess, I confess, I confess to every crime in New York (except the nasty ones of course), and I’ve never even been there. Now can I have the hammy, Mr/Ms DA?
Stand clear of the closing doors, little dewd.
That NYC subway commute always felt like being on a hamster wheel. Puts a new spin on “rat race.”
Seriously… MUST HAVE the rest of those photos… stat!
Victoria??? Are you listening?? Hand ‘em over! The court case is adjourned for the verdict… and the remaining photos are our ONLY HOPE!!
Ok, not really. But gosh darn, they are soooooo cute.
Did he have to use a token?
HAMTARO!!!!!