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    Default Not even squirrels are safe from police brutality

    Baby squirrel gets pepper-sprayed because it was a "threat".

    http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...irrel.cnn.html

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    I've watched that vid and it seems something was wrong with that squirrel. If I came across a wild animal like that, and it kept coming at you even when you back away, that animal is rabid or has some kind of disease going on. I have seen a raccoon like that, and it kept walking right at me even as I backed away. After talking to a local game warden, he said it was probably rabid. Rabies is a very serious disease, stay away from wild animals acting like this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Birka View Post
    I've watched that vid and it seems something was wrong with that squirrel. If I came across a wild animal like that, and it kept coming at you even when you back away, that animal is rabid or has some kind of disease going on. I have seen a raccoon like that, and it kept walking right at me even as I backed away. After talking to a local game warden, he said it was probably rabid. Rabies is a very serious disease, stay away from wild animals acting like this.
    It's a squirrel. Like one of the commenters said: put a box over it.

    Or kill it straight up.

    Pepper spray is just unnecessarily cruelty to animals, especially because animals can't go to the sink or an eyewash station to wash it off like humans can.

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    The squirrel is behaving like it's rabid but it's also blinded by the pepper-spray and must be in one hell of a lot of pain: even when the copper is stepping back it's advancing. However - what this copper did was either done in a moment of not thinking clear (thus being incompetent but then again coppers are not taught on how to deal with animals) or clear-cut animal abuse. The screaming girls in the background confirm it for me to be second: he could have just as well put a bullet in the thing rather then spraying it and prolonging it's suffering



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    Quote Originally Posted by Civis Batavi View Post
    The squirrel is behaving like it's rabid but it's also blinded by the pepper-spray and must be in one hell of a lot of pain: even when the copper is stepping back it's advancing. However - what this copper did was either done in a moment of not thinking clear (thus being incompetent but then again coppers are not taught on how to deal with animals) or clear-cut animal abuse. The screaming girls in the background confirm it for me to be second: he could have just as well put a bullet in the thing rather then spraying it and prolonging it's suffering
    I think a grown police officer is probably a better judge of when an animal is acting strangely than a bunch of starry-eyed teen-aged girls. The squirrel was advancing before the officer sprayed it. It doesn't look to me like he was being malicious, although better judgement would probably have been to put a box over the thing.

    Shooting it would have been completely stupid, & would have been better evidence of malice.

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    There are reasons that Squirrels are one of the two animals to adapt very successfully to man's urban environment (the other being birds because they can fly). Squirrels are hyper-skittish and very fearful of humans.

    I have never seen a Squirrel approach a human like that. It was even moving weird. If I saw a Squirrel behaving like that I would assume something was wrong with it. I'm sure some of those folks tried to scare it off and failed. Which should have been a VERY easy thing to do. Since it didn't run off, that would only increase my suspicions that it may be infected with rabies. Rabies is not inconsistent with what I observed.

    Some folks suggest putting a box over it. Okay, but there probably wasn't a box lying around and even if there was, you would have to get relatively close to an animal that appears to have rabies. I would do it anyways, but I wouldn't expect anyone else to. The cop probably thought the Squirrel would bolt after a little spray in the face . It wasn't a bad idea.

    Now, stomping it would a bad idea. If the Squirrel was infected, the stomp-splash projectiles could enter a by-standers mouth, thus infecting them.
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    The poor little bugger, probably found a crack-rock, under it's tree.
    Btw, I have never heard of rabid squirrels, but ground squirrels in the Western U.S., often do carry bubonic plague.

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    Looked like it had rabies; I'd have done the same and those girls are DUMB for not realizing the present danger just because it looks cute.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bloodeagle View Post
    The poor little bugger, probably found a crack-rock, under it's tree.
    Btw, I have never heard of rabid squirrels, but ground squirrels in the Western U.S., often do carry bubonic plague.
    Yeah but the plague doesn't kill people like it used to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AcadianDriftwood View Post
    Yeah but the plague doesn't kill people like it used to.
    The same could be said about rabies.

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