Posted on 07/30/2009 5:26:50 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A YOUNG mum told yesterday how she is too frightened to go in her garden - after she was attacked by a "killer" Siberian chipmunk.
Roxanne Whelan spotted two of the snappy critters when she popped out of her house for a ciggie.
One ran towards her and hopped on a sofa she keeps in the garden, a couple of feet away from her.
Roxanne, 20, said: "It was staring right at me and wasn't frightened of me at all. The next thing I knew it was jumping straight towards me and went on the attack.
"I thought it was going to bite me. I screamed my head off and ran for the kitchen door, then banged it shut and sat quaking inside." Overrun
The mum, who has a five-month-old son, Kye, added: "Now I'm too scared to go in the garden and worried about the baby.
"I can't even smoke because I don't want to go out there."
The attack in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, is the latest in a string of skirmishes involving Siberian chipmunks, which have a nasty bite and can carry Lyme disease and rabies.
The Sun has told how northern France has been overrun by 100,000 chipmunks descended from just 17 that escaped from a Belgian park in 1980.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Oh, a redneck neighborhood, like mine. The chipmunk probably just wanted to share the beer and chips and watch football on the tv plugged into the garage on a long extension cord.
At one time the sun never set on the British Empire. Those folks were made of sterner stuff.
Awe, Jeeze! Now Mother Government is going to release rabid chipmunks upon smokers when they pop outside for a fag, LOL!
Watch out for killer chipmunks in the garden! ;)
It’s stories like this that make subscribing to an Internet provider so worthwhile.
Nicotine addicted chipmunk wanted a puff of her ciggie.
This is not a ping.
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There is your padded couch......
I once had chipmonks who lived under the porch and fed on seed from the bird feeder. They got so fat, they could barely drag their fat bellies across the yard! They couldn’t run; they waddled. Then they all disappeared once the cat found ‘em.
I am going to assume the sofa was a chippendale............
A Siberian by any other name is still a damn commie Russian...........Damn commie russian chipmunks!
LOL!!!!!!!!
I just have to watch out for killer kittens.........
[There is your padded couch......]
Lol, YOU sent that to me in email. Remember? It just went with this thread.
it was the ciggie alright, it was a SMOKENAZI chipmunk trying to put it out...
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I must have gotten it from a Florida email
Velour would be great after a rainstorm!
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