Dead Squirrel Painted By Road Crews - Resident Sees It As 'Uncaring' (Ohio)

NewsNet5 Cleveland ^ | August 16, 2002

[Shermy]

CLEVELAND -- A photo in the Akron Beacon Journal shows a dead squirrel painted over by a road crew, NewsChannel5 reported.

The incident happened on Riverview Road in the Valley.

"I think that's kind of tacky, kind of uncaring, too," said Vonceil Terrell, an Akron resident.

Janet Carter, another resident, said, "I don't think they should've gone over it. There's no way you could miss a squirrel. I think they should've picked up the squirrel before they did the road."

That's the sentiment of the city's Service Director Joe Kidder.

Kidder said the carcass should have been picked up and that not doing so was a mistake.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Paleo, if I might be so bold as to use your first name, in Corpus that may in fact be an armadillo. In the rest of this great state I believe we would call that creature an opossum! ;-)

[smoking camels]

Beaver is good too. Both kinds. And not just the tail.

[brianl703]

Do you happen to remember what road this is? I'm not too far from the Shenandoah Valley (assuming you mean around Winchester, VA) and it'd be funny to get some pictures...

[smoking camels]

I used to have one for a pet too. Neatest critters ain't they?

[VadeRetro]

That looks like an opossum...

It sure does! How many freepers don't know a 'possum from a 'dillo?

[VadeRetro]

You should have let boris post that!

[smoking camels]

it's a grinner. and I know them both a little to well. I hated hitting 'dillos though. Their jumping can mess up a little car.

[VadeRetro]

I always liked that little thump you get when hitting a medium-sized rat. You know you've made the world a slightly better place. ;)

[null and void]

That might not be a squirrel. A skunk that got peed on would look identical.

Might be a skunk. It has a stripe on it's back...

[Sungirl]

Who's tax dollars paid for the time it took to paint that? Idiots. What do they make about 30 bucks an hour? I would like to see Osama or Hillary's face painted on the road though. And paint a few of Gore on the trees.

[Sungirl]

Oh..I didn't realize they just painted OVER it...I thought they actually painted a picture... :|
They are still idiots though.

[another cricket]

needless to say, I tend to be a bit cynical about unions... ;0)

I see unions as something that were necessary once upon a time. My grandpa was a coal miner. Company town, company store, company housing. You couldn't just go work for someone else and this was at the end of the Depression. A union was the one lever they had. Now days this isn't so and you can always pack up and move.

Today, Unions seem bent on pricing their workers out of a job. Take the Baseball Players Union for example. I know a number of people who have switched to minor league ball because it is cheaper, the games are more fun and the players are nicer. They are pricing themselves out of the market. What the market will bear is a two-edged sword and Major League Baseball is about to find the edge nice and sharp.

a.cricket

[dighton]

You should have let boris post that!

True, is protocol for sqvirrel items. Am pinging.

[NeoCaveman]

Former Congressman James T. Traficant could not be reached for comment on the squirrel situation

[VadeRetro]

. . . squirrel situation

Ferrets! Those are ferrets! Aaaaargh!!

[NeoCaveman]

Ferrets! Those are ferrets! Aaaaargh!!

The former Congressman has always supported the furry woodland community; squirrels, ferrets, chipmunks, various vermin, etc.

[VadeRetro]

I don't know what that is, but it's missing a right front leg.

[Rebelbase]

Breading and frying the dillo meat is the only way we could figure out how to prepare the beast. Its bascially an armored rat, not much there to put on a grill.