Posted on 08/10/2006 5:51:15 PM PDT by martin_fierro
Squirrel attacks people in Fla. park
2 hours, 12 minutes ago
WINTER PARK, Fla. - Several people attacked by a squirrel at Central Park said they had one word for the animal: nuts. On Wednesday some expressed frustration that the animal was not caught sooner, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Alisa Cox's son Carson, 3, was bitten by a squirrel several times and had a 2-inch wound on his leg after the incident, Cox said.
James Klute said his 3-year-old son was also bitten on the calf while they were kicking a soccer ball at the park. Jim Hindman, meanwhile, said a squirrel bit and scratched both arms while he was sitting on a park bench.
Longwood resident Dylan Osborne, 19, said that after the squirrel attacked the leg and shoe of a friend he trapped it under a bucket but released it two hours later when county animal-services workers didn't arrive.
An official with animal-services said he was not aware of that incident but would check the records.
City employees captured the animal with a litter grabber Tuesday. It died and is being tested for rabies. Officers had previously tried to subdue the animal with pepper spray.
Over on the left coast, we avoid 'em. They can carry the bubonic plague. 
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Nuke'm!
LOL!! OMG, that is beautiful!


Thought maybe that was an Islamic squirrel, with C4 strapped to it....
Those things are gonna' get caught on something!
Great minds think alike and a minute apart
 Well, when I was a kid I'd take a trip every summer down the Mississippi 
 To visit my granny in her antebellum world
 I'd run barefooted all day long climbin' trees free as a song
And one day I happened to catch myself a squirrel
 Well, I stuffed him down in an old shoe box, punched a couple of holes in the top
 And when Sunday came I snuck him into Church
 I was sittin' way back in the very last pew showin' him to my good buddy Hugh
 When that squirrel got loose and went totally berserk
 Well, what happened next is hard to tell
 Some thought it was heaven others thought it was hell
 But the fact that something was among us was plain to see
 As the choir sang "I Surrender All" the squirrel ran up Harv Newlan's coveralls
 Harv leaped to his feet and said, "Somethin's got a hold on me", Yeow! 
  
 Chorus
  
 The day the squirrel went berserk
 In the First Self-Righteous Church
 In the sleepy little town of Pascagoula
 It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
 They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah!
  
 Well, Harv hit the aisles dancin' and screamin'
 Some thought he had religion others thought he had a demon
 And Harv thought he had a weed eater loose in his Fruit-Of-The-Looms
 He fell to his knees to plead and beg and the squirrel ran out of his britches leg
 Unobserved to the other side of the room
 All the way down to the amen pew where sat Sister Bertha better-than-you
 Who'd been watchin' all the commotion with sadistic glee
 But you should've seen the look in her eyes
 When that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs
 She jumped to her feet and said "Lord have mercy on me"
 As the squirrel made laps inside her dress
 She began to cry and then to confess to sins that would make a sailor blush with shame
 She told of gossip and church dissension but the thing that got the most attention
 Was when she talked about her love life and then she started naming names 
  
 Chorus
  
 The day the squirrel went berserk
 In the First Self-Righteous Church
 In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
 It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
 They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah! 
  
 Well seven deacons and the pastor got saved,
 Twenty-five thousand dollars was raised and fifty 
volunteered
 For missions in the Congo on the spot
 Even without an invitation there were at least five hundred rededications
 And we all got baptized whether we needed it or not
 Now you've heard the bible story I guess
How he parted the waters for Moses to pass
Oh the miracles God has wrought in this old world
 But the one I'll remember 'til my dyin' day
 Is how he put that Church back on the narrow way
 With a half crazed Mississippi squirrel 
  
 Chorus
  
 The day the squirrel went berserk
 In the First Self-Righteous Church
 In the sleepy little town of Pascagoula
 It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
 They was jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah!
RE: title- I thought Mother Sheehan was in Crawford?
Excellent picture!!! :-)

When I was a kid we had a rouge sqirrel chasing children. It was suspected of being rabid. The fathers came home that evening and shot and disposed of it. 
 
That was back when men were men.
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