Posted on 09/29/2025 7:37:07 AM PDT by Twotone
Residents of a San Francisco Bay Area city are on the lookout for an aggressive squirrel that has sent at least two people to the emergency room for medical treatment.
Joan Heblack told ABC affiliate KGO-TV that she was walking in the Lucas Valley neighborhood of San Rafael when a squirrel seemingly came out of nowhere and attacked her leg, clawing and biting.
“It clamped onto my leg. The tail was flying up here. I was like, ‘Get it off me, get off me!’,” Heblack said.
Isabel Campoy also said she was attacked while walking in the same area. The squirrel launched itself from the ground to her face and wound up on her arm, leaving it bloody, she said.
Both women went to the emergency room, the TV station reported in its Monday story.
Flyers have now been posted, warning residents that the squirrel is no joke and that more than five people have been attacked by a ”very mean squirrel” that “comes out of nowhere.”
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The squirrel may have gotten rabies...from the rats.
Where are the New york cops when you need them?
Watch out for the Killer Rabbit.
It’s rabies. And it’s CA so they’ll send it to a rehabilitation clinic to teach him to play nice with others
It’s rabies. And it’s CA so they’ll send it to a rehabilitation clinic to teach him to play nice with others
It’s rabies. And it’s CA so they’ll send it to a rehabilitation clinic to teach him to play nice with others
Have Gamo Varmiter will travel. 😉
Retrieve the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!
Yes. This squirrel needs to be put down because that it obviously NOT normal squirrel behavior.
I saw multiple triple posts yesterday from lots of people. Must be a bug in the system.
Of all the things to NOT have a video of!
Someone needs to claim it as a pet and the government will spare no expense to kill it.
The squirrel is just demonstrating the natural animal response to dependence.
That, or it’s rabid.
Didn’t on purpose
Years ago a squirrel who teased my neighbor's dog daily, by jumping up on the fence just in time didn't make it. The dog and squirrel fought a vicious battle after it locked it's jaw on the dog's paw. The dog broke the squirrel's spine and killed it, but it still took animal control to get it off the dog's paw.
‘First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.’
I think some “feature” in a common browser/OS is being exploited. Not all posts repeat.
I see significant delay in accessing FR as it struggles under this attack, I expect.
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