{"id":323660,"date":"2026-08-18T02:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323660\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:14:08","slug":"mice-captured-racing-around-boarding-gate-at-nycs-laguardia-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323660\/","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.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/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.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/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":2,"featured_media":323661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3346,3347,1087,57,9,56,63,65,64,34595,58],"class_list":["post-323660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-air-travel","tag-airports","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-rodents","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}