Posted on 02/10/2021 12:37:54 PM PST by SJackson
At least three people in Rego Park, in Queens, have been jumped upon and bitten by a possibly deranged squirrel
New York City is not known for hair-raising animal experiences – save for the odd pizza-loving rat – but one city neighborhood is being subjected to an unwelcome slice of the wild by being terrorized by a highly aggressive squirrel.
At least three people in Rego Park, in the borough of Queens, have been jumped upon and bitten by the possibly deranged squirrel in recent weeks. The tree-based rodent’s reign of terror has made some people in the area afraid to go outside without being armed with pepper spray or other anti-squirrel weaponry.
“A few people are quite scared,” Micheline Frederick, a local resident, told Guardian US. Frederick was herself targeted by the squirrel in a bloody attack on 21 December, when she was holding her front door open for furniture movers.
“Suddenly the squirrel ran up my leg and I thought ‘it’s a small rodent, how bad could this be’, so I stood completely still and they next thing I knew the blood started to fly. It was a wrestling match that got very bloody very quickly,” Frederick said.
Frederick’s lengthy solo struggle with the squirrel – the furniture movers fled inside her house to safety - was captured by her neighbor’s security camera. The footage shows blood on Frederick and nearby snow. Frederick suffered bites to her arms and hands, with her little finger badly gnawed on by the animal.
“I had my hand around its body and I could not get this thing off,” she said. “It was angry, vicious and incredibly strong.” She eventually shook it off, only for the squirrel to run up a tree and stare at her.
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The era of jimmy carter is upon us again.
Years ago, before I knew better, I would try to shoo them off of the feeders.
However, once I embraced my new rodent overloads, comedy central!
The bird feeders with the squirrel cages are the best... that way the red squirrels have a comfy booth to sit on and stay all day.
We had a real bumper crop last year. Babies everywhere. Must be a nearby factory that is making all these adorable lil’ plush toys. So far it’s not located in the attic, haha.
Our Gray squirrels for the most part are good neighbors.
The smaller red squirrel is a true rodent pest. Re breaking into car ports, garages, basements and attics making those places their homes or feeding areas.
We had one that sometimes attacked people in our church yard or the alley in the back of the church. The city/county never responded.
It disappeared. We felt that it attacked a person raised in the country and still lived there. The squirrel probably became dinner after it attacked wrong person.
Yoo-hoo, over here!
New park squirrel species. Its called the “Goetz Squirrel”.
Now that is funny, right there.
After last years fires:
A Mountain Lion was seen in San Frisco several times:
Tennis racket would be better- wider- and they would bounce pretty far
Smart little beasts. They scatter from the bird feeders when I cock the pellet rifle even when I am still inside the house. Incredible hearing and sense of awareness at every sense.
Don’t worry about the squirrel. His buddy the moose is the dangerous one.
they are pests....they destroy your garden, eat birdfood and scatter bird seed everywhere but worse they go into blue bird houses and ill the bluebirds....I saw one do it....he didn’t do it for long...
Smart little beasts. They scatter from the bird feeders when “I cock the pellet rifle even when I am still inside the house. Incredible hearing and sense of awareness at every sense.”
You/we are seeing the DNA of the surviving squirrels becoming the dominant gene pool.
My son is seeing that with the wild pigs in California. He hunts with a bow/arrow, and the surviving hogs now never get closer than 50+ feet or more. They sense where he is and keeps that space between them open..
We are in Michigan: Monroe County/Lenawee County. The black squirrels stay, for the most part, in Lenawee County. (Close to the Raisin River) Brown/Red are in Monroe County. The black squirrels are nasty and will take over territory of the other ones by chewing off privates.
I wonder where these people got their Ph.Ds. so that they could diagnose a deranged squirrel. How would one of these geniuses determine that a squirrel is deranged?
Maybe they mean, “rabid”?
Small rodents typically don't get rabies.
ha! - had a co-worker like that also - he brought crock pot beaver to the company pot-luck.
Teenagers call them squiggers.
Thanx for sharing. Seems that the Lord created some strange habits with HIS creations.
““I had my hand around its body and I could not get this thing off,” “
That is the point where you squeeze its eyes out.
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