Officer Stops Baby Squirrel with Pepper Spray

[Anti Federalist]

^^^^ Anti Squirrel dot com???!!!

 

[heavenlyboy34]

lolz!! Thanks for the laughs, pcosmar.

 

[pcosmar]

lolz!! Thanks for the laughs, pcosmar.

welcome
it's hard to read and nearly impossible to do so quietly.

I'm rather fond of the little tree rats. Have known some tame (but not domesticated) that are quite affectionate. and entertaining.

 

[AFPVet]

But you have to understand -- those baby squirrels are vicious! They'll bite your torso off if you don't watch out!

About like a Chihuahua lol.

 

[Soggy Cereal]

Some of you are pieces of work, I gotta tell yah..

I'm curious as to what everyone here that is mocking the cop would do in this situation? I mean sure, it's a great headline "Cop pepper sprays baby squirrel," and people will go "OMFG WHATTA PANSY!" but seriously, none of you would have the balls to do anything about it. If the squirrel DID have rabies, which is likely given its alleged behavior, then who the fuck wants to get close to it? Cops 20 years ago or even a hundred years ago would stay the fuck away. I don't think anyone finds it "manly" to go up and beat the shit outta a rabid animal. Yeah, that's fuckin smart. Then I'm sure people here would have comments about how much of a dumbass brute the police force has become.

Plus, I love how the report has conflicting observations by students about whether this squirrel was acting strange and attacking students or not. A) The cop was called, so obviously SOMEONE was getting chased by the damn thing and B) did you not watch the video? The squirrel showed obvious signs of strange behavior. I wouldn't want to risk getting chased by a rabid animal. I forget what ritual inducts you into manhood by getting fuckin bit by an animal with rabies.

Finally, I love how people are crying about how ridiculous it is and the obvious "underlying violence" inherent in policemen, as if you can give me a psychological analysis from a cop who pepper sprays a likely-rabid squirrel because they actually want to do it on humans but animals give them good practice.

Give me a break.

Have you not been around regular human beings with guns? Have you not heard of coon hunting? I mean, it's a great past time for teenagers and young adults to shoot raccoons for sport and beat the shit out of possums with baseball bats. What's funny is some of you just see red to the point that if a cop does it, it's worthy of your Ebert and Roeper critique, but if a regular average person does it, oh it's his Second Amendment right, you can go into how it's good for population control of rodents, yadda yadda yadda.

I don't know what's more ridiculous, the fact that teenagers and adults didn't know what the fuck do to about a weird squirrel and so these private citizens had to call upon the government for help (GASP!), or the fact that none of you would have the balls to do anything about it if it happened to you. Most of you would run and that'd be the smart thing. Stay the fuck away from rabid animals.

 

[acptulsa]

The behavior didn't indicate it was rabid. But what if it was? Then pepper spray would never have stopped it. It would have gotten pissed, and used its ears to find some human and attack. And it probably wouldn't have been the dumbass cop, unfortunately.

Now, please explain to me how killing a squirrel outright is worse than soaking its head in pepper spray, because I'm curious. Don't know how to break it to you, but society takes very different views of killing animals and torturing them.

 

[VBRonPaulFan]

It sure didn't look like it was acting actively aggressive to me. It wasn't attacking the cop directly, it looked more curious. It was probably used to being fed by someone in the area and was curious about the people there. Besides... it's a freaking baby squirrel, throw a backpack on it if you're that disturbed and worried.

 

[reduen]

Some of you are pieces of work, I gotta tell yah..

I'm curious as to what everyone here that is mocking the cop would do in this situation? I mean sure, it's a great headline "Cop pepper sprays baby squirrel," and people will go "OMFG WHATTA PANSY!" but seriously, none of you would have the balls to do anything about it. If the squirrel DID have rabies, which is likely given its alleged behavior, then who the fuck wants to get close to it? Cops 20 years ago or even a hundred years ago would stay the fuck away. I don't think anyone finds it "manly" to go up and beat the shit outta a rabid animal. Yeah, that's fuckin smart. Then I'm sure people here would have comments about how much of a dumbass brute the police force has become.

Plus, I love how the report has conflicting observations by students about whether this squirrel was acting strange and attacking students or not. A) The cop was called, so obviously SOMEONE was getting chased by the damn thing and B) did you not watch the video? The squirrel showed obvious signs of strange behavior. I wouldn't want to risk getting chased by a rabid animal. I forget what ritual inducts you into manhood by getting fuckin bit by an animal with rabies.

Finally, I love how people are crying about how ridiculous it is and the obvious "underlying violence" inherent in policemen, as if you can give me a psychological analysis from a cop who pepper sprays a likely-rabid squirrel because they actually want to do it on humans but animals give them good practice.

Give me a break.

Have you not been around regular human beings with guns? Have you not heard of coon hunting? I mean, it's a great past time for teenagers and young adults to shoot raccoons for sport and beat the shit out of possums with baseball bats. What's funny is some of you just see red to the point that if a cop does it, it's worthy of your Ebert and Roeper critique, but if a regular average person does it, oh it's his Second Amendment right, you can go into how it's good for population control of rodents, yadda yadda yadda.

I don't know what's more ridiculous, the fact that teenagers and adults didn't know what the fuck do to about a weird squirrel and so these private citizens had to call upon the government for help (GASP!), or the fact that none of you would have the balls to do anything about it if it happened to you. Most of you would run and that'd be the smart thing. Stay the fuck away from rabid animals.

Dude, give me a break... Animals that grow up around humans (that do not mistreat them) behave differently than wild ones. There was no indication of a disease.. Grab a hat a jacket or anything like that and remove the 3" terror from the situation. What a brave cop indeed!

 

[pcosmar]

Some of you are pieces of work, I gotta tell yah..

Really.
http://rabies.emedtv.com/rabies/rabies-and-squirrels.html

Squirrels are almost never found to be infected with the rabies virus. Squirrels also have not been known to cause rabies in humans within the United States.

Though it is perhaps theoretically possible,
1. There is NO RECORDED CASE of humans ever infected with rabies from a squirrel.
2. Squirrels are playful and will chase tails. even of humans. especially if the play has been going on prior.
3. Squirrels that have been fed will beg for more.

Just how does someone with (obviously) no understanding of squirrels define "strange" behavior?
Just Google "Squirrels". You will find lots of video with "strange" behavior. Strange sort of defines them.
Me, I grew up with them.

 

[speciallyblend]

hahaha, so funny, also levin is on the video, the doberman odds are i bet there is a tree around the area and he has food saved and the squirrel was just trying to protect his nest and food, just my 2 cents! on that case shouldn't the first priority be to relocate the simple animal not pepper spray it! the cop is a simple idiot!!

 

[speciallyblend]

levin the doberman weighs in on the squirrel issue

 

[reduen]

True story... I once picked up a great horned owl off the side of the road that had been hit, thinking that it was going to die. I drove it about 40 miles to a vet in the cab of my truck and 3/4 the way there it gained consciousness and scared the living daylights out of me.... Luckily, I was able to keep its eyes covered with my jacket but when the vet came to remove it from my truck, the fight was on!!!

 

[Freedom 4 all]

I'm surprised he didn't try to shoot it. Cops rarely pass up an opportunity to kill something.

 

[pcosmar]

shouldn't the first priority be to relocate the simple animal not pepper spray it! the cop is a simple idiot!!

The simplest thing would have been to relocate the children back into the classroom.

 

[Soggy Cereal]

The behavior didn't indicate it was rabid. But what if it was? Then pepper spray would never have stopped it. It would have gotten pissed, and used its ears to find some human and attack. And it probably wouldn't have been the dumbass cop, unfortunately.

Now, please explain to me how killing a squirrel outright is worse than soaking its head in pepper spray, because I'm curious. Don't know how to break it to you, but society takes very different views of killing animals and torturing them.

Any squirrel I've ever come across either runs, or (if you're on a college campus where squirrels are used to a lot of humans being very close all the time) they just sit there eating a nut or something. But the fact that a police officer was called tells me something, no? I mean, I don't just call a cop because there's a squirrel in the lawn...in fact, I'm sure there would be news articles about how some crazy dumbass called a cop just to cry wolf--just as you hear once in a while idiots call 9/11 just to have a conversation.

So the fact that the officer was called gives it a high probability that PRIVATE CITIZENS felt threatened by this animal, even though a couple tree-hugging dipshit teenagers went Arab League on the situation once the cops arrived and actually used for to stop an animal from inflicting harm.

Pepper spray isn't torture. If it was, pussy European police forces wouldn't have it for starters. You want to talk about pansy officers, get out of the country and go somewhere where the police are a joke. American cops are about as intimidating as it gets, even though a lot of you think you're smug when it comes to talking about cops. Although most cops are not physically capable of taking down a grown man with drunken rage (as if any of you are capable), but the fact that they come in swarms and are cockroaches, does it matter? American cops will beat the shit out of you way before any European douche bag would. So stop reminiscing about how cops back in the day were baddasses and yet make comments like "OMG THE GOVERNMENT IS EXCESSIVELY FORCEFUL." You can't have it both ways...you can't say how big of balls cops had decades ago, yet bitch when they lift a finger.

I have a feeling most of you have nothing to add to conversations, and just bitch for the sake of bitching. Again, you see red. You'll find a problem with any scenario. If the cop does nothing and a student gets attacked, why the fuck did the cop not do his job with my taxpayer dollars? Or if the cop does something, whatever it is, then it's excessive force.

Is there actually a handbook on dealing with animals with eerie behavior? What would you guys do call in the SWAT team? At the end of the day, animals have unpredictable behavior. You're asking "What-ifs" as if you can actually put a scenario around what if an animal did this or that, as if you can treat them like rational human beings in an experiment. No, sorry, squirrels are pretty fucking dumb which is why they're low on the food chain. Very simple creatures, as so my question would be what if the cop did nothing and the squirrel DID attack? Because apparently asking what if the squirrel attacked because the officer pepper sprayed it is a perfectly legal question to ask, I'll ask you about all the possible scenarios that coulda, woulda, shoulda happened, but they didn't. Just as the dog you pet when you come home from work could easily out-of-the-blue attack you, an animal is an animal. Let's put what-ifs around everything around us.

And yes, the squirrel was acting aggressive. When squirrels have a drunken walk where they're hunched forward and moving towards you in a snake-like way, that's not normal. Maybe you come across squirrels like that on a regular basis, but I haven't. Bottom line, an officer was called to the scene. Obviously someone there felt threatened to the point where the brave, worshipped PRIVATE CITIZEN that you all get hard-ons over felt it was necessary to get help.

Oh and considering the amount of time it would take for an officer to be dispatched and for this whole event to take place, it could have been 15-20 minutes, probably more that the squirrel was in this area acting like this. Squirrels aren't territorial creatures. They are chirpy little fuckers that run away the first sign of trouble. The fact that the squirrel was in the same area acting very awkwardly for that long of time gives me red flags. It's not like the cop materialized out of thin air and pepper sprayed it right away. He had to take the call, drive there thinking "what a waste of my time", probably stopped for a Subway, stretched, got back in his squad car, headed to the school, got out at the wrong side of the school and had to walk across campus, finally got to the scene, evaluated it, and pepper sprayed it.

But go ahead and throw a backpack over an animal acting like that. Hahahah...none of you would have the balls to approach something like that, even a baby squirrel. I know I wouldn't. Sorry, but I realize I outweigh the thing by a 150 times its body weight, but I'm not going to fuckin act tough and let my ego get in the way just so I can spend a few hundred dollars to get a series of rabies shots over a several weeks time.

 

[reduen]

Any squirrel I've ever come across either runs, or (if you're on a college campus where squirrels are used to a lot of humans being very close all the time) they just sit there eating a nut or something. But the fact that a police officer was called tells me something, no? I mean, I don't just call a cop because there's a squirrel in the lawn...in fact, I'm sure there would be news articles about how some crazy dumbass called a cop just to cry wolf--just as you hear once in a while idiots call 9/11 just to have a conversation.

So the fact that the officer was called gives it a high probability that PRIVATE CITIZENS felt threatened by this animal, even though a couple tree-hugging dipshit teenagers went Arab League on the situation once the cops arrived and actually used for to stop an animal from inflicting harm.

Pepper spray isn't torture. If it was, pussy European police forces wouldn't have it for starters. You want to talk about pansy officers, get out of the country and go somewhere where the police are a joke. American cops are about as intimidating as it gets, even though a lot of you think you're smug when it comes to talking about cops. Although most cops are not physically capable of taking down a grown man with drunken rage (as if any of you are capable), but the fact that they come in swarms and are cockroaches, does it matter? American cops will beat the shit out of you way before any European douche bag would. So stop reminiscing about how cops back in the day were baddasses and yet make comments like "OMG THE GOVERNMENT IS EXCESSIVELY FORCEFUL." You can't have it both ways...you can't say how big of balls cops had decades ago, yet bitch when they lift a finger.

I have a feeling most of you have nothing to add to conversations, and just bitch for the sake of bitching. Again, you see red. You'll find a problem with any scenario. If the cop does nothing and a student gets attacked, why the fuck did the cop not do his job with my taxpayer dollars? Or if the cop does something, whatever it is, then it's excessive force.

Is there actually a handbook on dealing with animals with eerie behavior? What would you guys do, pull a gun out on school campus and shoot a fuckin animal that small with your gun pointed in a downward angle? Call in the SWAT team? At the end of the day, animals have unpredictable behavior. You're asking "What-ifs" as if you can actually put a scenario around what if an animal did this or that, as if you can treat them like rational human beings in an experiment. No, sorry, squirrels are pretty fucking dumb which is why they're low on the food chain. Very simple creatures, as so my question would be what if the cop did nothing and the squirrel DID attack? Because apparently asking what if the squirrel attacked because the officer pepper sprayed it is a perfectly legal question to ask, I'll ask you about all the possible scenarios that coulda, woulda, shoulda happened, but they didn't. Just as the dog you pet when you come home from work could easily out-of-the-blue attack you, an animal is an animal. Let's put what-ifs around everything around us.

And yes, the squirrel was acting aggressive. When squirrels have a drunken walk where they're hunched forward and moving towards you in a snake-like way, that's not normal. Maybe you come across squirrels like that on a regular basis, but I haven't. Bottom line, an officer was called to the scene. Obviously someone there felt threatened to the point where the brave, worshipped PRIVATE CITIZEN that you all get hard-ons over felt it was necessary to get help.

Oh and considering the amount of time it would take for an officer to be dispatched and for this whole event to take place, it could have been 15-20 minutes, probably more that the squirrel was in this area acting like this. Squirrels aren't territorial creatures. They are chirpy little fuckers that run away the first sign of trouble. The fact that the squirrel was in the same area acting very awkwardly for that long of time gives me red flags. It's not like the cop materialized out of thin air and pepper sprayed it right away. He had to take the call, drive there thinking "what a waste of my time", probably stopped for a Subway, stretched, got back in his squad car, headed to the school, got out at the wrong side of the school and had to walk across campus, finally got to the scene, evaluated it, and pepper sprayed it.

But go ahead and throw a backpack over an animal acting like that. Hahahah...none of you would have the balls to approach something like that, even a baby squirrel. I know I wouldn't. Sorry, but I realize I outweigh the thing by a 150 times its body weight, but I'm not going to fuckin act tough and let my ego get in the way just so I can spend a few hundred dollars to get a series of rabies shots over a several weeks time.

I carried this in my truck to relocate it..



Yes, I would have helped this tiny animal out...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

The behavior didn't indicate it was rabid.

Yep. And young orphaned animals will look to anything as a replacement "parent".

Just so we don't get too collectivist on cops, I know one who is raising an orphaned baby squirrel right now...

 

[pcosmar]

I have a feeling most of you have nothing to add to conversations, and just bitch for the sake of bitching.

<snip>
Oh and considering the amount of time it would take for an officer to be dispatched

Wall of ridiculous text
I only pulled a couple points.
I posted facts to refute the blathering claims of "rabies".

And this was a school resource officer. He was on scene and was only called away from his doughnut.

 

[Soggy Cereal]

Really.
http://rabies.emedtv.com/rabies/rabies-and-squirrels.html


Though it is perhaps theoretically possible,
1. There is NO RECORDED CASE of humans ever infected with rabies from a squirrel.
2. Squirrels are playful and will chase tails. even of humans. especially if the play has been going on prior.
3. Squirrels that have been fed will beg for more.

Just how does someone with (obviously) no understanding of squirrels define "strange" behavior?
Just Google "Squirrels". You will find lots of video with "strange" behavior. Strange sort of defines them.
Me, I grew up with them.

Wow..for starters, a cop was called. Obviously someone in that situation wasn't a fuckin animal genius like your smug-ass thinks he is, so forward your information to this school district to "educate" these kids that brought it to the attention of school officials who then felt it was necessary to call the police who the police, then, felt it was necessary to diffuse the situation. Realize that, at a minimum, it took two private citizens (I know how a lot of you can barely contain your excitement when thinking about the private individual) and a cop to do something about this. Clearly two heads aren't better than one.

And squirrels are animals. Animals are unpredictable. Why take the chance with a wild animal? Plus, rabies can infect anything from bats to dogs to humans, so squirrels, which are RODENTS (similar to, oh I don't know...disease carrying rats?) are just as likely to have rabies as any other animal out there that hasn't been vaccinated. Do I care or have time to look up the history of reported cases of squirrel rabies in America? Does it matter if there's been one or a hundred cases or none at all? Realize the first reported case had to start with zero reported!

Besides, whether it had rabies or not is irrelevant. I just brought that up to demonstrate just ONE of the diseases it could have. Maybe there's something else? Or maybe it doesn't have a disease at all, is perfectly clean and healthy, but attacks a student anyway? What's worse, a student getting bit or a squirrel getting pepper sprayed and the problem is solved?

 

[daviddee]

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