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Dead Squirrel Painted By Road Crews - Resident Sees It As 'Uncaring' (Ohio)
NewsNet5 Cleveland ^
| August 16, 2002
Posted on 08/16/2002 9:21:06 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: squirrel
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To: Paleo Conservative; Paul Atreides; blackbart.223; Vidalia; rockfish59; DeFault User
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! ;-)
To: okie01
Beaver is good too. Both kinds. And not just the tail.
To: Axenolith
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...
To: big bad easter bunny
I used to have one for a pet too. Neatest critters ain't they?
To: FenianOfEire
That looks like an opossum... It sure does! How many freepers don't know a 'possum from a 'dillo?
To: dighton
You should have let boris post that!
To: VadeRetro
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.
To: smoking camels
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. ;)
To: Ken H
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...
To: Shermy
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.
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posted on
08/17/2002 9:37:01 AM PDT
by
Sungirl
To: Sungirl
Oh..I didn't realize they just painted OVER it...I thought they actually painted a picture... :|
They are still idiots though.
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posted on
08/17/2002 9:40:03 AM PDT
by
Sungirl
To: Chad Fairbanks
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
To: VadeRetro; boris
You should have let boris post that!True, is protocol for sqvirrel items. Am pinging.
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08/17/2002 10:01:11 AM PDT
by
dighton
To: Shermy
Former Congressman James T. Traficant could not be reached for comment on the squirrel situation
To: dubyaismypresident
. . .
squirrel situation Ferrets! Those are ferrets! Aaaaargh!!
To: VadeRetro
Ferrets! Those are ferrets! Aaaaargh!! The former Congressman has always supported the furry woodland community; squirrels, ferrets, chipmunks, various vermin, etc.
To: dubyaismypresident
I don't know what that is, but it's missing a right front leg.
To: blackbart.223
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.
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