Terrorist Squirrels

[rabid1st]

Recently, directed by someone on my FList, I stumbled across an article about British citizens at war with the Common Grey Squirrel. Apparently, this non-native species was overtaking the habitat of the U.K. native Red Squirrel. In a bizarre attempt to scare the nutbutter out of the Greys...one tiny British community had taken to serving squirrel pancakes. That's right...they were grinding little grey squirrel bones into bread.

Craig Ferguson addresses this very serious issue on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNhsXtwIHu4



But those kinds of hardline tactics often backfire, breeding discontent and even insurgent cells and now, we see the results coming home to roost (or roast) as a large portion of the United States suffers a powerloss due to squirrel terrorism.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071120/ap_on_fe_st/odd_squirrel_outages

Who are we kidding...this is obviously an organized assault...someone call Homeland Security and MI5.

Rae

Comments

[hezmanagirl.livejournal.com]

Cheese and crackers man! I have friendly squirrels who eat my pumpkins for me. Obviously that lot fell in with a bad crowd when they were pups. Tsk tsk.

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness the red squirrels are still charming and innocent - and very good at swimming.

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

Do you have that swimming article you directed me to handy? I would love to reference it as well.

Rae
who will thank you not to bring your squirrel profiling to my LJ. The color of a squirrel's fur is no indication of the color of his (or her) soul. ;->

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/7096816.stm

The color of a squirrel's fur is no indication of the color of his (or her) soul. ;->


Good - or black squirrels would in trouble.

Hmm, that sounds very dodgy, doesn't it?

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

*resolves to judge squirrels by their actions, not their pelts*

[larielromeniel.livejournal.com]

The pigeons will be next, attacking en masse because humans are starving them, stealing their unborn children and forcing them onto birth control.

I kid you not. These are all pigeon eradication methods in use around the world.