3rd December 2009

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ALL ABOARD THE HAMSTER SUBWAY. Meet Edie, a hamster who has become a web sensation in photos of him riding an amazingly accurate, scaled-down model of the 4 train. His owner, Victoria Balanger, works as an evidence photographer for the Manhattan DA’s office, reports the New York Post, and shot the photos on a model train car built to show jurors in a 1996 trial where subway bomber Edward Leary detonated his explosives. The model just happened to be, in Balanger’s words, “perfectly hamster-sized.”

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