The REAL point of my verbose post at #52 was to provide the appropriate link to THIS:
CLICK TO WATCH: Mark Rober Builds a Squirrel Obstacle Course to foil squirrels!
But...
...I shot myself in the foot monologuing and screwed up my link!
I hope you don't mind being pinged again, but with all the damned depressing crap going on, anything that can make us laugh is worthwhile IMO.
Anyway...if you have never seen Mark Rober's video on this and you find squirrels funny (or even if you dislike them and want to see them launched into the air) it is well worth watching! (You can probably tell just how hilarious I find this...his narration has me in stitches) It has the following elements:
The Contestants
The Goal
The Bridge of Instability
The Maze of A Thousand Corridors
The Pitchfork Tumblers of Treachery
The Home Wrecker (a female stuffed squrrel in a bikini-stop to gape and you won't escape!)
The Slinky Bridge of Deception
The Tourist Trap (This doesn't do anything but automatically take a picture when they poke their head through to get the walnut!)
The Quad Steps of Great Elevation
The Orbital Assist Platform (AKA "The Final Countdown", AKA "It's not a Catapult-it's a Squirrelapult!" He also puts a little 3D hologram thing the displays a walnut that isn't there, just to see if any of them will spend more than three seconds trying to grab it before they go into orbit.
Well, you can watch to see if any of them defeat it!