[maica]

I wonder if the 15000 French old people who died in the August heat wave a few years ago, suffered of if they just “went to sleep” as the heat dehydration overtook them?

I wonder how many people were prosecuted for abandoning these old human beings?

[TheOldLady]

Death by heat prostration is a hard way to go, no doubt about it, but what is your point? We're talking about squirrels here in America, not the unfortunate elderly in France. We can tsk-tsk over them, but we have absolutely no power to help those still living or to do anything about their deaths. That is up to the French people, non?

As for this issue, I already said that humans should not be punished for the death, even the death by torture as in this case, of vermin, especially since it was accidental. And if you read the last sentence in my post, you know that I recommend instant-death traps for such creatures so that slow and painful death in a "humane" trap is prevented.

[Travis McGee]

There will probably be a greater penalty for roasting granny in an un-airconditioned apartment (as in Paris) than for roasting a squirrel.