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Special award for deputy attacked by squirrel on camera
(Thanks to Ralph)
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The Killer Squirrel of Caerbannog.
Posted by: Steverino | April 20, 2022 at 09:29 AM
That squirrel has probably been given an award certificate with a bronzed sheriff's deputy.
Posted by: ripleysparrow | April 20, 2022 at 09:45 AM
Squirrel was just causing diversion while Moose escaped unnoticed.
Posted by: Boris Badenov | April 20, 2022 at 10:21 AM
You just know if this ever happens again that stun grenades and smoke cannisters will be involved as the SWAT team enters the mobile home.
Posted by: cfjk | April 20, 2022 at 10:30 AM
The officer was also given a vaccination card verifying he had received the prescribed series of rabies and tetanus shots along with prophylactic antibiotics and band-aids.
He was further to be given full lifetime psychiatric treatment for the PTSD that he was likely to suffer.
Posted by: Le Petomane | April 20, 2022 at 10:52 AM
If ever there was a case where a cop was justified in using deadly force, this was it.
Posted by: Rod | April 20, 2022 at 12:10 PM
He got the award to hide the fact that the only way dispatch could get him to enter the trailer was to tell him there was a dozen doughnuts at risk inside.
Posted by: David Puddy | April 20, 2022 at 12:30 PM
Le Petomane: According to the CDC, except for woodchucks, "Small rodents (like squirrels, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chipmunks, rats, and mice) and lagomorphs (including rabbits and hares) are almost never found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to transmit rabies to humans."
Leptospirosis is much more likely, and there is no vaccine, but antibiotics are effective, unlike for rabies.
I would have worried more about the cat, however.
Posted by: Ralph | April 20, 2022 at 01:12 PM
Ralph, I agree! Shoddy reporting, where was the carcass of the cat found? Was there a squirrel note pinned to the body with an acorn shard?
Posted by: MO Mitch | April 20, 2022 at 03:57 PM
We can all sleep better at night knowing that there are humans out there that know Squirrel Taekwondo.
Posted by: Ron G in WA | April 20, 2022 at 06:49 PM
Ralph, we have a saying here in Flathead County: "Never trust a squirrel, or whatever they are carrying along with their nuts."
Posted by: Le Petomane | April 20, 2022 at 07:44 PM