Squirrel injures 18 people in two days of attacks in Buckley

I've heard about individual cases at cemeteries in my area. Those places have good eating for squirrels. And some may be used to getting snacks from people.
 
Quite a few tame squirrels where I live - I occasionally feed them and have often found myself speculating what would happen if they went rogue - I imagine some sort of Hitchcock-ian mass squirrel attack scenario, mobbing folks and nipping them to death (think "The Birds" but with rodents). The little buggers are very fast and have sharp teeth. Now it looks like my worst fears have been realised ...
 
Some time, species recognition can go wrong. I would suggest someone climb into that tree to double check...


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there is an old German saying "the devil is a squirel", (meaning, things are not allways what they appear to be), here this might be litarally true...
 
Thats pretty close to me, should I flee for London, or man up and go-pro it?
 
"speciesist"? Seriously? I have been watching with great disgust as The Usual Suspects are turning over every rock to find more ists.

And to celebrate the 'newly discovered oppressed.' Such as the overweight, who they have relabelled as the newly discovered victims. While looking for more unrecognized victims to celebrate. (Asians being the latest addition.)

They should get real jobs.

No squirrel is my brother. Mainly because they're squirrels.
 
edwest3 said:
"speciesist"? Seriously? I have been watching with great disgust as The Usual Suspects are turning over every rock to find more ists.
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I somehow doubt Scott was being serious.

There is, of course, a question of how we view other species. Different cultures have very different views, as do different ethicists and policy makers. Questions like: How close does a species have to be towards us to have some rights (e.g. should we treat Chimps better than Clams)? Does treating other species as having more rights (or value) increase the overall value placed on life (including human life) or decrease it?

Then there are question like: Is wiping out an entire species a crime? Is wiping out a whole species a crime that is greater or lesser than murdering one human? Is capital punishment acceptable for ivory poachers? If ivory poachers are heavily armed, should park-rangers be allowed to engage (or should they avoid interfering)?

Note: Many clams lack complex nervous systems, and thus are actually sometimes consider Vegan - the world is complicated. People and philosophy and politics is complicated.
 
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edwest3 said:
"speciesist"? Seriously? I have been watching with great disgust as The Usual Suspects are turning over every rock to find more ists.
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I somehow doubt Scott was being serious.
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You're assuming my seriousness?!?! I'm outraged!

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Avimimus said:
There is, of course, a question of how we view other species. Different cultures have very different views, as do different ethicists and policy makers. Questions like: How close does a species have to be towards us to have some rights (e.g. should we treat Chimps better than Clams)? Does treating other species as having more rights (or value) increase the overall value placed on life (including human life) or decrease it?
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Some species should be viewed more highly than others. Dogs and Cats, for instance: they are on Team Human. Dogs, especially (though anybody mistreats a cat, they deserve INSERT HORRIBLE THING HERE), since humans have spent ten thousand years bending them to our will.

Sheep and cows, on the other hand, are not on Team Human. They are our food. And there's nothing wrong with that, factually or morally. If we stopped eating them, there's a good chance they'd go extinct. It's certain that their numbers would plummet. The animals that we ranch are in no risk of extinction.

Avimimus said:
Then there are question like: Is wiping out an entire species a crime? Is wiping out a whole species a crime that is greater or lesser than murdering one human? Is capital punishment acceptable for ivory poachers? If ivory poachers are heavily armed, should park-rangers be allowed to engage (or should they avoid interfering)?
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Ivory/horn poaching threatens extinctions. That's not just "aw, darn, no more rhinos," that's "whoops, the ecosystem is collapsing." So hiring a bunch of post-war Ukrainian nerds to fly drones over poachers and drop grenades on them and leaving the remnants for the buzzards and the jackals is entirely appropriate. Especially given that the whole market for ivory and horn is *stupid.* A lot of the rhino horn market is based on nonsensical "other ways of knowing"-level superstitious claptrap for quack medicines... medicines that would be just as effective if made from barber shop hair trimmings and fingernail clippings. Ivory can be replaced with plastic. And soon enough, "real" horn and ivory should be factory-growable. So wiping out species in order to feed the market of stupid people is unconscionable.

Avimimus said:
People and philosophy and politics is complicated.
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Not really. Some people are just stupid. And philosphy... well, that one's been covered.

Compared to a whole lot of people, squirrels are just awesome. You can tell that they have actual personalities... unlike a lot of the drones you see flapping their gums about the latest trendy nonsense.
 
outraged? Yes, well, there's a lot of that going around in some circles. Circles with which I'd rather not associate.

I like cats by the way.

Oh, and I'm not an engineer.
 
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Well, over here in Germany, mice eating Squirrels are nothing new, despite our squirrels look even cuter....
 

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