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Baby squirrel gets pepper-sprayed because it was a "threat".
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...irrel.cnn.html
Hurting small animals is a warning sign that someone will become a serial killer.
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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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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
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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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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