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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Check that squirrel’s nest for a antifa action flag.
We had a very fat, well fed dog. Some game meats are just awful! Exceptions are young deer in November (never later), pheasant, Rabbits, trout, and salmon. Moose is horrible stuff unless you're facing true need.
Omaha, Nebraska - used to just see them in the Peony Park area or slightly north of Dodge and east of about 84th.
We now have at least one in our immediate neighborhood which is in suburbia, to the southwest a good 10+ miles. I guess it is some type of diversity or integration plan.
Ticks, skunks, mosquitoes, liver flukes (any parasitic worm), mildew or mold, and eels.
All puzzling works of God.
When I was a kid we used to hunt squirrels with darts. But yeah, a tennis racket would do a job on a squirrel.
...as I was saying, I think SQUIRREL!!!
Had a rabid squirrel in the yard when I lived in a town as a child.
The WWII dads took care of it that evening when they came home from the offices.
With all the restaurant shutdowns and lack of wasted food - might they be hungry?
Suddenly the squirrel ran up my leg.
As Johnny Carson called it Nickedafobia.
Or our Gamo varminter.
Squirrels say “Whose streets? Our streets!”
squirrel = former Fox News pretty face ?
Beware the trees.. They shake for thee.
the squirrels at our place were all strippers in a past life.
Twirling on a pole forever, hanging by their feet upside down.
sometimes when they eat too much seed, I grease the poles with Crisco.
Yea, no joke. Squirrels at my house see me grab the bb gun through the back window and scatter before the door’s even open most of the time..
That’s what .410’s and 0.17s are made for. My Kimber 1911 “Eclipse Target II” .45cal ACP makes too big a mess.
My Dad was from the city, but an avid hunter. Squirrel and rabbits were his favorite.
I knew how to cook them by the time I was 10 years old. Just dredge in seasoned flour, brown in fat in the pressure cooker, then add some liquid and pressure cook for a few minutes. Really tasty!
My Dad even made hassenpfeffer a few times with the rabbit.
In my home town of Goshen Indiana somebody imported black squirrels from Canada and they set up quite a community there.
Squirrel stew...yum
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