[Shermy]

[PoorMuttly]

Just a publicity-hungry squirrel. Don't hive him the satisfaction. Move along.

[Vidalia]

What a waste of good stew meat...

[Catspaw]

They painted road kill?

Next time, I want them to try a deer. Now THAT'S a challenge.

[Frapster]

The squirrel shouldn't have been sun-bathing in the middle of the road.

In the meantime who knows how many people were murdered in Houston today (where I live) - a little perspective puhleeze. ;-)

[Chad Fairbanks]

Blame this on unions - it's not the job of the painters to remove roadkill - says so in their contract - that's someone else's job, and he was on break... ;0)

[THX 1138]

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."

"Hey, we's union guys. Dat ain't in our contract."

[j271]

Scandalous!

Congress should immediately create a new federal Department of Squirrel Security. Also, I demand massive new regulation of squirrels, road crews and painting: 20,000 pages should do the trick.

[Captainpaintball]

No doubt that Vonceil (?) and Janet are solidly pro-choice...

[Ken H]

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

[Pining_4_TX]

This looks like most of the stuff seen in modern art galleries. Enron probably would have paid half a mil for it.

[Guillermo]

OK this actually made the news?

[nmh]

Bet the same people could care less about dead little humans as in abortion. Nah, a dead squirrel painted over by the road crew is more shocking than a woman who premeditates the murder of her little unborn human being with the help of course of a allopathic doctor.

[Husker24]

People must be living pretty good if this is all they have to bitch about.

[big bad easter bunny]

i own 2 flying squirrels, Rockie and Little One and they are great! I am sure it was an accident.

[Axenolith]

When I was in Field Camp (Geology) in the Shenandoah Valley we happened upon a stretch of road which had been paved with a mixture that was to heavy in tar. The sun heats this up, and it tends to separate leaving aggregate free tar patches on the surface. A lot of critters got hit along this stretch, and the road surface was covered with these tar patches that had perfect skeletons (all be it with a lot of busted bones) impressed in them like that Far Side cartoon where the archaeologists find the caveman in the mammoth footprint.

[supercat]

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."

Issues of caring aside, shouldn't they have removed the squirrel to avoid leaving an unpainted section of road underneath it? I would think that before the center of a road is painted it should be cleared of all debris, formerly-living or not.

[Looking for Diogenes]

"I think that's kind of ... uncaring.."

She's right. These guys obviously don't care about painting a good line. They should have moved the rodent to one side before painting.

[Bill Rice]

That dirty little nut eater!

Every squirrel killed means another acorn will grow to be a mighty oak in the wild wood.

[aquawrench]

Why am I thinking of Pepe Le Pew?

[tdadams]

"I think they should've picked up the squirrel before they did the road."

And the union road crew member responds, "Sorry, that's not my job."