{"id":116311,"date":"2026-09-03T01:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/116311\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T01:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:48:19","slug":"fist-fighting-mice-crack-up-commuters-in-london-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/116311\/","title":{"rendered":"Fist-fighting mice crack up commuters in London Underground\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This match was a real squeaker!<\/p>\n<p>Things got hairy in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/03\/20\/london-underground-riders-dont-seem-to-care-about-coronavirus-warning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London Underground<\/a> when two mice were spotted sparring like boxers on their hind legs \u2014 cracking up and creeping out commuters.<\/p>\n<p>The rowdy rodents are shown\u00a0in a viral video chasing each\u00a0other on the Oxford Circus subway platform, then hopping on their haunches and fighting fisticuffs-style.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40633076\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/commuters-london-treated-impromptu-entertainment-139353744.jpg\" alt=\"fighting mice\" class=\"wp-image-40633076\"\/>Two mice engage in a bout of fisticuffs at Oxford Circus on the London Underground in footage posted on August 29. Sonia Mansfield via Storyful<\/p>\n<p>The feisty furballs appear to wrestle and slap each other near the platform\u2019s yellow line before scurrying away, according to footage posted on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dcnj_E_IEDK\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Instagram Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt warmed our hearts to see them playing\/fighting with each other. Myself and my friend Aaron couldn\u2019t stop laughing,\u201d\u00a0Sonia Mansfield, who shot the footage,\u00a0told Storyful.<\/p>\n<p>The laughable lightweights gave New York City\u2019s infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/29\/nycs-infamous-pizza-rat-spotted-out-to-eat-with-his-family\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pizza Rat <\/a>a run for his money, raking in more than 123,000 likes by Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66601563;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40633074\" width=\"393\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/commuters-london-treated-impromptu-entertainment-139353739.jpg\" alt=\"fighting mice\" class=\"wp-image-40633074\"\/>The fighting mice cracked up commuters. Sonia Mansfield via Storyful<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease someone remind them to mind the gap,\u201d one observer joked, while others were more squeamish about the squabble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo More Mr Mice Guy,\u201d another quipped.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This match was a real squeaker! Things got hairy in the London Underground when two mice were spotted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[3434,27,47604,47605,5552,46],"class_list":["post-116311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-animals","tag-london","tag-rodents","tag-subways","tag-us-news","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117204595939804597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}