CHICAGO (UPI) -- -- Joseph Wade was watching a horror flick called 'The Creeper' in a downtowm theater when a rat bit him on the ankle.
Wade, 40, said he thought at first he had been kicked by the woman next to him during the movie Monday night.
When he figured out what had really happened, 'the theater manager wouldn't believe him and originally called the police to eject him,' his attorney said.
Michael Olson, a supervisor for the firm that runs the Woods Theater, said the company will pay for Wade's treatment at Hentotin Hospital, which included a tetanus shot.
'I can't recall this ever happening before,' Olson said.
However, John Bateman, a nurse at Henrotin for 15 years, said rat bites are commonplace.
'They are running like crazy in those theaters,' Bateman said.
