Tall tail: Prank sculpture for 'Rat Man' responsible for rodent rampage tricks gullible Battery Park strollers
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"Thousands of people come, take photographs. 90% of them believe it, they go on social media, they tell their friends this wild tale and then they'll Google it and find out it's fake," the artist, 53, told The Post.
"Katz was supposedly a failed circus performer from 18th-century Europe who tried to create a new legacy for himself by introducing a new pet to the colonies - a plan that quickly went awry as the rats took over New York and then the continent."
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