Squirrel Attacks Occur Again In Mountain View Park

CBS 5 ^ | Feb 23, 2007 | Thuy Vu

[nickcarraway]

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[Dallas59]

Death comes to those who are blinded by cute furry animals...

[martin_fierro]

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[martin_fierro]

“It was frightening,” said her mother, Debbie Allard. “It was a very scary thing to have happened. It was traumatizing.”
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“I don’t think it’s a safe place for children to be in until they solve this problem,” said Debbie Allard.

Yup. Mountain View, all right.

The squirrels are attracted to Fruits & Nuts.

[Hoplite]

Ich habe einen Plan...!

[nickcarraway]

There used to be a place in Los Gatos where bird would attack people as they crossed N. Santa Cruz. It was funny, it would just dive-bomb people as they crossed the street. I don't know whatever became of that.

[martin_fierro]

I don't know whatever became of that.

It became my 1992 Thanksgiving Dinner.

[dirtboy]

Shot two of the little bastards today. I looove .22 shotshells.

[Slings and Arrows]

I say we return to the ship, take off, and nuke the place from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[Slings and Arrows]

What kind of range do those have, and what did you shoot them out of?

[Jeff Chandler]

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.

Or a twelve-year-old boy with a pellet gun.

[Cvengr]

Should we tell them the environmentalist wackos have been repopulating the parks with mountain lions and wolves?

[Nailbiter]

like your tag line

[sweetliberty]

They're evil, I tell you.

[dirtboy]

What kind of range do those have, and what did you shoot them out of?

Out of a .22. I actually have my grandfather's old Remington smoothbore .22 single-shot bolt-action (the world's smallest shotgun, basically), but you can shoot them out of any .22, long gun or handgun. They also make really good snake loads.

But they don't have much range - maybe 15 yards, max - I snipe the squirrels from the kitchen door when they get to be too numerous. The main advantage is that you don't get any significant ricochets - they use 12 shot, which is tiny.

[Smokin' Joe]

A few teenagers with pellet guns could solve this problem...

[Slings and Arrows]

Thanks, and thanks. One of these days I'll move back to a rural area, and when I do I may have to do some population control on the tree rats.

[SquirrelKing]

“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.

ALL YOUR SUN CHIPS
ARE BELONG TO US.

[Lady Jag]

PUNKS!