{"id":1008049,"date":"2026-08-18T06:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1008049\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:01:30","slug":"mice-captured-racing-around-boarding-gate-at-nycs-laguardia-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1008049\/","title":{"rendered":"Mice captured racing around boarding gate at NYC&#8217;s LaGuardia Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger was left shocked when she saw mice snacking and racing around near a boarding gate at LaGuardia Airport in Queens on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Traveler Lindsey Powers shared video with Storyful that shows two rodents running around and underneath chairs at Terminal B as travelers waited to board their flights.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.56152344;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40385674\" width=\"331\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/m-Screenshot-2026-08-17-at-74427-PM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A mouse on a gray carpet, circled in red.\" class=\"wp-image-40385674\"  \/>Mice were seen in Terminal B at LaGuardia airport on Sunday. Lindsey Powers via Storyful<\/p>\n<p>Powers said she saw a total of four mice, but only managed to capture two on video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne came up to me and was snacking on something,\u201d she told Storyful. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.56152344;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40385681\" width=\"331\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rat-Screenshot-2026-08-17-at-74427-PM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A rat on the carpet beneath red airport lounge seats.\" class=\"wp-image-40385681\"  \/>The mice were snacking and running around in the terminal. Lindsey Powers via Storyful<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for LaGuardia Airport did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2024, another animal \u2014 a raccoon \u2014 was filmed causing havoc at LaGuardia. <\/p>\n<p>The rambunctious raccoon was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/05\/us-news\/raccoon-falls-from-laguardia-ceiling-forcing-spirit-staff-flyers-to-flee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spotted hanging from the ceiling<\/a> at the Spirit Airlines\u2019 gate before scurrying around the airport, prompting shrieks of horror. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passenger was left shocked when she saw mice snacking and racing around near a boarding gate at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1008050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[1166,17390,5229,7833,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,6449,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-1008049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-air-travel","tag-airports","tag-america","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-rodents","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117114993967347946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}