OT: BIKER VS THE SQUIRREL

wait till you get attacked by a pissed off pickanese

Squirrels are indeed intriguing creatures.

My uncle (my favorite uncle...the one from French Morocco, and a WWII veteran); was fishing one day. There had been a pretty heavy thunderstorm the day before; and there were quite a few tree branches strewn about the ground.

As my uncle was fishing, he noticed a squirrel scurrying about on a fallen oak branch. The critter was stuffing himself with what ever acorns were left. Unfortunately, the end of the branch extended into the water. Everytime the squirrel would attempt to go towards the end, it would begin to dip into the creek; and the squirrel would chatter, and scurry back to "safer territory". The little critter was quite stubborn though, and tried repeatedly to venture to the end of the branch; but each time...the same result: He would start to get "dunked".

I guess his hunger (or avarice) got the better of him; as he eventually made a quick dash to the end of the branch, and grabbed an acorn. Then just as the branch began to sink, he made a quick dash back to "dry land"....but before he got any further...

...a large mouth bass appeared from nowhere, and had a major feast of squirrel meat!

My uncle was shocked, to say the least....

...But even more shocking, to my uncle, was several minutes later...when that bass baited the end of the branch with another juicy acorn....

:o)

one day at the charles st subway station, while it was raining like a horse pissing on a flat rock, i watched a very soggy pigeon flap onto the third rail. there was a bright flash, a muffled boom and then a could of oily smoke with a few feathers drifting down. the pigeon was GONE.

I hate to be the bearer of some really bad news, but you should have rabies shots. The behavior of the "squirrel from hell" is really abnormal. The odds are 1 in a million that you will get rabies, but if you do; you are dead.

I had an equally weird encounter with a raccoon last year and went through the process. No, you will not get shots in your stomach, but you get some very serious injections.

Please go to a doctor and report the incident to the board of health.

Jim

Probably about as big as the tale was tall... ;-p

"Digital_Cowboy" wrote in news:Xns962EA818B4E24nobodynobodycom@24.168.128.86:

Oh DC. I am laughing so hard tears are coming out of my eyes. I'm gonna send this to wife's work email and wait for the angry phone call.

It's a tale from the web...I doubt he was directly involved.

...hope the officers shot the little tree-rat.

What a Cowboy. ;-)

Well you're a better man than me - I would have dropped the bike. Not on purpose either. Killer squirrels, huh... I'll be on my guard all summer - and in full leather!

WmB

Rufus,

Yeah, I'd like to see ANYONE hold a wheelie at 80, AND fight a squirrel all at the same time WITHOUT dumping. . . I'd bet that that's one stunt that NOT even Evil would attempt. . .;-)

Although the mental picture of a cop holding a riot gun on his own car is side spliting to say the LEAST. . .;-)

I could just see the "confortation" when they got back to the station house and tried to explain to their CO about the damage to the crusier. . .

First Cop: Uh, sir we were parked on the side of the street doing some paperwork when all of the sudden out of nowhere comes this squirrel. He came in through the passenger side window as if thrown or something.

Second Cop: Yes, sir that's what happened. We were sitting there minding our own business doing paperwork when we were "attacked" we got out of the car as fast as we could we didn't KNOW what it was that was attacking us, so we uh, kind of shot up the car a "little. . ."

First Cop: Yeah, what he said. . .

CO: I want a psych eval on you two and I want it done YESTERDAY. . .

Yeah... I wouldn't admit to it either. ;-)

WmB