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Squirrel Attacks Occur Again In Mountain View Park
CBS 5 ^ | Feb 23, 2007 | Thuy Vu

Posted on 02/24/2007 3:56:59 PM PST by grjr21

“He thought I was stealing his chips when he was stealing my chips!” That’s how four-year-old Hayley Allard described what happened Thursday when a squirrel attacked her in Mountain View’s Cuesta Park.

“He was getting my Sun Chips. I reached over to get them and he jumped right in my face and started scratching it,” the girl said.

“It was frightening,” said her mother, Debbie Allard. “It was a very scary thing to have happened. It was traumatizing.”

Squirrels in Cuesta Park have attacked at least 20 people since last spring. Hayley had to get a tetanus shot. Her doctor decided she didn’t need one for rabies. There are signs in the children’s play area warning about aggressive squirrels and prohibiting food, but the Allard family doesn’t feel that’s practical.

“You can put up signs and you can tell people not to have things, but when you have more than one person, like if you have two small children, it’s really hard to do a full body search on everybody to make sure there’s no food,” said Dave Allard, Hayley’s father.

The city has placed traps throughout the park using strollers as part of the bait system, but so far has only caught one squirrel. The Allards want the children’s play area shut down and fenced off until all the aggressive squirrels are trapped. While parents at the park are surprised to hear about the latest attacks, many don’t want to see the play area closed off.

“That’s a little too drastic. Everybody’s playing here, a lot of people,” said Dennis Kanyga of Mountain View.

“I think the ultimate responsibility is up to who’s here with the children,” said Los Altos resident Kyuri Doeden, who was at the park with her son.

Mountain View’s community services director told CBS 5 by phone the park will remain open, but the Allard family doesn’t plan to come back.

“I don’t think it’s a safe place for children to be in until they solve this problem,” said Debbie Allard.

City officials said park visitors created the problem when they fed the squirrels. The animals are now so brazen, they look to humans for food and will attack to get it.


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: sheeple; squirrel
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1 posted on 02/24/2007 3:56:59 PM PST by grjr21
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It was frightening,” said her mother, Debbie Allard.


What I find frightening Debbie is that you're raising a child
2 posted on 02/24/2007 3:58:07 PM PST by grjr21
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To: grjr21

Once a squirrel gets a taste for human blood, it's all over.


3 posted on 02/24/2007 3:58:21 PM PST by MittFan08 (Anybody but McCain)
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To: grjr21

The welfare state doesn't promote good squirrels either, apparently.


4 posted on 02/24/2007 3:59:14 PM PST by Sender ("Great powers should never get involved in the politics of small tribes.")
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To: grjr21

Attack Squirrels run amok!

Funny story, thank you very much.


5 posted on 02/24/2007 3:59:42 PM PST by najida (On day, a door opens, and you get a chance to start over. But the phone rings......)
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6 posted on 02/24/2007 4:04:03 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: grjr21

What state????????


7 posted on 02/24/2007 4:09:27 PM PST by GitmoSailor (Cold War Veteran===Beware of the IDs of Marx=Fairness Doctrine,3rd party,Slow Bleed+Hillary.)
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To: grjr21
They've mutated so bizarrely... that they can no longer interact with other life forms... the humans I mean.
8 posted on 02/24/2007 4:09:54 PM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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Squirrels in Cuesta Park have attacked at least 20 people since last spring. Hayley had to get a tetanus shot.

In case those bastards are using rusty knives.
9 posted on 02/24/2007 4:12:39 PM PST by Vision ("Delight yourself in the Lord; and he will give you your heart's desires." Psalm 37:4)
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To: GitmoSailor
I hope you don't collapse in shock when you find out cbs 5 covers San Fransisco California :)
10 posted on 02/24/2007 4:12:49 PM PST by grjr21
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To: grjr21

I don't get CBS 5 down here in Phoenix!!!!.....


11 posted on 02/24/2007 4:17:30 PM PST by GitmoSailor (Cold War Veteran===Beware of the IDs of Marx=Fairness Doctrine,3rd party,Slow Bleed+Hillary.)
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Count your blessings.

I spent a few years in Tempe and even in a college town like that one I don't think I ran across anybody with an attitude as strange as this woman's is .
12 posted on 02/24/2007 4:27:31 PM PST by grjr21
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There's a .22 solution available...but its' CA where the animals (2 and 4 legged) have more rights than people.
13 posted on 02/24/2007 4:32:09 PM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("God made liquor and God made brew, so ugly people could have sex too" - unknown)
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To: grjr21
By the first dawn the squirrels had taken more than a hundred. Hard for me to count but more than a hundred. I don't know how many squirrels. Maybe a thousand. I do know they averaged six men an hour. All kinds -- reds, grays, foxes. All kinds.
14 posted on 02/24/2007 4:34:14 PM PST by Sergio (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
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“It was frightening,” said her mother, Debbie Allard. “It was a very scary thing to have happened. It was traumatizing.”

For who? Four year old Haley doesn't sound traumatized. That was a fairly well reasoned report she gave.

15 posted on 02/24/2007 4:35:24 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ( for those in Rio Linda, there's conservapedia)
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To: grjr21

I live near this park and took my daughter squirrel chasing the (just doing our part). We put up a scare squirrel and threw pine cons at a couple of them. It was fun. Our behavior is probably technically illegal.

Now to the political part. There is a RANGER posted there on the weekends, and she goes and tells people not to eat nearby and lectures & browbeats people about squirrel behavior and feeding the squirrels. This is preposterous that tax dollars would be going to pay for such largesse.


16 posted on 02/24/2007 4:41:04 PM PST by Kevmo (The first labor of Huntercles: Defeating the 3-headed RINO)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I forgot that I intended to bring this one to your attention for your not-a-ping list.


17 posted on 02/24/2007 4:41:54 PM PST by Kevmo (The first labor of Huntercles: Defeating the 3-headed RINO)
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To: Overtaxed

Pingy


18 posted on 02/24/2007 5:18:51 PM PST by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: grjr21
How pathetic is this?

When I was a kid any squirrel that lost its fear of humans would have been killed by a seven-year-old boy armed with a slingshot.

Sheesh!

Urban wimps! Weeeeeenieeees!

19 posted on 02/24/2007 5:21:59 PM PST by LibKill (ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
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To: Lil'freeper

Some people deserve uppity squirrels.


20 posted on 02/24/2007 5:23:06 PM PST by Overtaxed
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