Screaming Wetherspoons patrons jumped onto tables and chairs to dodge a mouse that was racing throughout the pub.
Sean Maguire was drinking with his mates in Birmingham’s Bishop Vesey Wetherspoon pub earlier this month when the rat started wreaking havoc.
After observing the rat racing around, the 23-year-old trainee teacher filmed numerous customers standing on chairs and tables in hysterics.
Sean Maguire was enjoying drinks with his friends in the Bishop Vesey Wetherspoon pub in Birmingham earlier this month when the rat began causing havoc
In the clip, filmed on May 12, Sean can be heard shouting: ‘Guys, there is a rat in the Bishop.’
In disbelief another shocked customer says: ‘Mate.’
The pub then erupts into chaos as customers try to find out where the rat is hiding.
Sean is seen going to ‘investigate’ as he edges over a nearby table in the busy pub.
Within seconds he manages to find the chubby looking animal and shouts: ‘Ah, oh my god. Oh my god’.
At this point the rat is scared off by the group and immediately scurries away out of sight – but not before Sean manages to capture the pest on a slow-motion video.
He later shared the footage on TikTok, where it has attracted over 130,000 views.
Social media users were left shocked by the sighting.
One said: ‘I would have ran away.’
Another wrote: ‘I’d be gone.’
A third added: ‘How are people still there?’
Speaking today, Sean, from Birmingham, said: ‘It was about 11 o’clock at night, I was sitting round a table with my friends when everyone started jumping on top of the tables and screaming.
‘The rat then ran under our table so we did the same, I started recording and got it on camera.
Then not long after that the bar staff asked everyone to leave. They [Wetherspoon staff] were kind of just scrambling – I don’t think they really knew what to do.
‘They just told everyone to leave. I was laughing to be honest, I thought it was hilarious.’
In July 2017 a pub-goer filmed a rat at the James Watt in Greenock, Inverclyde, running across a seat before jumping and disappearing under a table.
Wetherspoons has been contacted for comment.