Slog - Comments on When Squirrels Attack http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac My childhood home was located just three blocks from the Woodland Park Zoo. Because of this, I grew up fearing our neighborhood squirrels, which were more aggressive—due to familiarity with humans, or maybe from simply being harassed all the time—than squirrels in other neighborhoods. One afternoon, around the time St. Helens erupted, I remember hearing my father yelling from the backyard. When I ran to the window to investigate, I found him swinging a rake frantically while half a dozen squirrels swarmed around him. They growled and nipped at him, some even leaping into the air and snapping dangerously close... Copyright 2008 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:18:35 -0800 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:14:39 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Sben Riot sqrrrls.

]]> Sben http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471160 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471160 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:48:18 -0800 Comment by Papson L. Jones BB gun and hunting pellets. Always worked for our yard.

]]> Papson L. Jones http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471173 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471173 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:02:25 -0800 Comment by Orson Neoconservative squirrels! Little fuckers.

]]> Orson http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471185 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471185 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:19:07 -0800 Comment by josh b Sben totally wins.

and i got attacked by a tiny baby squirrel last month! it jumped at me out of nowhere! the horror!

]]> josh b http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471195 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471195 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:35:38 -0800 Comment by kim Damn terrorist squirrels and their evildoer ways.

]]> kim http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471196 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471196 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:35:55 -0800 Comment by extraction I once lived in a third-story Queen Anne apartment that backed up on a small greenbelt. A similar batshit crazy squirrel got into my apartment through a sliding glass door that I'd left ajar. It waited behind the TV until I got home, when it attacked me. No kidding. I had to battle it with a golf club and (eventually) chase it back outside. Even after I closed the doors and windows it proceeded to hurl itself angrily against the glass. That thing wanted to kick my ass. True story.

]]> extraction http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471205 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471205 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:00:14 -0800 Comment by When Squirrels Attack I was attacked on UW campus a long time ago while I walked along eating a muffin. It ran up my leg but I just dropped the muffin and ran!

]]> When Squirrels Attack http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471209 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471209 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:06:48 -0800 Comment by Cascadian When I was a student at the UW far too many years ago to mention, I had an encounter with an aggressive squirrel. While I was walking down a paved path in the trees near Denny Hall, a squirrel ran toward me along the middle of the path ahead. I stopped to judge its intentions, and the bastard ran straight up my right leg and down my back as I screeched like a little girl.

Squirrels are fuzzy and cute, but do not be deceived. They are malign vermin from the deepest pits of hell.

]]> Cascadian http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471211 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471211 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:07:18 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi What is it with squirrels and muffins?

The Stranger should send Brendan Kiley down to Mountain View. His shooting at, and missing, the squirrels might put the fear of God into them.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471222 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471222 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:47:58 -0800 Comment by Willis I was sitting on the grass studying at UW one time, and I had some gummy candies sitting next to me in an open bag. Somehow I wasn't very surprised when I saw a squirel run up and snatch some of the candy. They're little bastards at UW. Real bastards.

]]> Willis http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471227 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471227 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:27:03 -0800 Comment by had a baby squirrel jump right onto my head in my own front yard. i screamed like a little girl as it scampered off and, i'm sure, joined its punk-ass friends in the tree, clicking their asses off at the way i nearly peed myself.

fuckers.

]]> http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471281 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471281 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:06:27 -0800 Comment by Rielle I've heard them described as rats with good PR.

]]> Rielle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471284 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471284 Life Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:43:46 -0800 Comment by Matthew Fisher Wilder You have far more to fear from the rats with the most subtle, slimy, stealthy and slick PR today:

pigeons

* they are rats with wings

* they are very intelligent.. on par with crows and parrots. They're originally called "rock doves", but have prospered because they are far more intelligent than o.g. doves, you know, the ones that are signs of peace and all that (despite seeing doves attack each other during mating season.)

* if anything is going to be a vector for a major pandemic, it will be dried pigeon shit

Fight the real enemy.

]]> Matthew Fisher Wilder http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471349 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471349 Life Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:51:25 -0800 Comment by COMTE I'm surprised nobody thought of:

"Squirrils Gone Wild"

Clearly these "barely legal Squirrils" (sic) were under the influence of many, many tequila shots...

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471412 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471412 Life Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:33:57 -0800 Comment by K X One
Welcome to year of the squirrel (TM(K))
The raccoons have passed the torch for now...
Some of you may remember year of the elephant, wait in fear until year of the dolphin!

]]> K X One http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471543 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471543 Life Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:18:20 -0800 Comment by Squirrel Liberation Front Maybe if your colleague stopped trying to eat us we wouldn't feel the need to defend ourselves.


That's right Brendan...you're on notice you big sissy prick!

]]> Squirrel Liberation Front http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471563 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/when_squirrels_attac#c471563 Life Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:14:39 -0800