Skip to comments.
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! Thats how four-year-old Hayley Allard described what happened Thursday when a squirrel attacked her in Mountain Views 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 didnt need one for rabies. There are signs in the childrens play area warning about aggressive squirrels and prohibiting food, but the Allard family doesnt feel thats 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, its really hard to do a full body search on everybody to make sure theres no food, said Dave Allard, Hayleys 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 childrens 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 dont want to see the play area closed off.
Thats a little too drastic. Everybodys playing here, a lot of people, said Dennis Kanyga of Mountain View.
I think the ultimate responsibility is up to whos here with the children, said Los Altos resident Kyuri Doeden, who was at the park with her son.
Mountain Views community services director told CBS 5 by phone the park will remain open, but the Allard family doesnt plan to come back.
I dont think its 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
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-43 next last
1
posted on
02/24/2007 3:56:59 PM PST
by
grjr21
To: grjr21
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
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)
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.")
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......)
To: grjr21
6
posted on
02/24/2007 4:04:03 PM PST
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: grjr21
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.)
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)
To: grjr21
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)
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
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.)
To: GitmoSailor
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
To: grjr21
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)
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?)
To: grjr21
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)
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)
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)
To: Overtaxed
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.)
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.)
To: Lil'freeper
Some people deserve uppity squirrels.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-43 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson