was it wrong to laugh at that?

In my opinion that is what you deserve for calling the police to attend a dangerous squirrel anyway

 

Almost as scary as that cement 'gator'!

 

WTF? That was just mean!

 

I doubt most people know enough about animal behavior to know what rabies looks like

 

Shouldn't squirles avoid humans? Do you think it might have rabies?

 

I'm sure the squirrel was brandashing a firearm and shot at the officer first....:

 

Tax dollars at work

 

Idiot. Everyone knows that you never approach a baby squirrel unless you have a 12 gauge or better.

 

Surprised they didn't call in a swat team to shoot it 61 times.

 

The best way to deal with bastards like that involves a wood chipper. I have not patience or pitty for those who gain pleasure from the cruelty of completely helpless lifeforms.

 

What are you talking about. How can you tell from that video he was gaining pleasure from that. It sounded to me like the kids were laughing a little more than the officer was.

Also, as previously mentioned, people don't know enough about animal behavior to make comments like "he was over reacting to this squirrel" This is not normal behavior for most wild animals, let alone squirrels. If it is coming at you like that there is something wrong with it.

What would have been a better solution. Should he have maybe kicked it away, (I am sure that would have went over like a fart in church). Or maybe he should have let the kids fend for themselves, have one or more of them get bit and have to go through painful rabies treatments.

He used a safe, non lethal process to get the animal to move away.

Again, never see the good in cops, only the bad.

By the way, they probably didn't call the police to come in to take care of this. In case you have been living under a rock somewhere, we live in a messed up world and we now have to have police permanently stationed at even our middle schools and some grade schools to protect the student body. (just not from rabid squirrels apparently)

 

lol. Stupid teenage girls and their obsession for cute stuff.

I don't think there's anything wrong with what the cop did, but it did look kinda silly. How he casually sprays the cheeky thing. lol. just lol.

 

I dunno. If the squirrels in the area are fed by and accustomed to humans, they approach them pretty readily. I had a squirrel take a potato chip right out of my hand at Sea World last summer. There is a park near here where I've heard the squirrels eat out of your hand although I've never been and can't confirm it.

 

could have picked it up in a garbage can and then taken it out farther away and released it ! i had a baby skunk come up to me back in Virgina decades ago and tought i must have been its mama , course it had to spray me and most likely was rabid so put it in a cage to see if it was several days will usually do and feed and watered it , 2 days later the mexicans that worked back there took it home and ate it !

 

Knowing about baby squirrels, they take to humans easily and are very curious. That little squirrel would probably climbed up on the cop out of curiosity. I am sure it would have freaked the man out though.

Pepper spray? Why would that help. All that did was to put the little thing in pain. Could he not have just used a net or something?

 

Cops dont walk around with nets in their back pockets. It's the kids fault for feeding the critter as said earlier.

"Officer that animal doesn't look normal". Okay, if you say so. PSSSHHHT. All clear.

Folks know nothing of animals. Squirrels are just rats with a fluffy tail. When was the last time you heard a teen girl say "Don't hurt the spider"?


"If you spray it, I'm gonna cry" WTF kind of lilly livered weak people are we breeding these days?

 

IT'S COMING RIGHT AT US !!!

Far be it from me to second guess the officer but I would have just had the students move along instead of encouraging it by gathering about. Then it would have been on its way.

Out of the whole bunch in that video the squirrel was probably the brightest.

It was probably quite tame - I feed squirrels titbits in our garden all the time. They're used to seeing me in the garden sitting at the table and scamper right up for bits of cake or biscuits and such.

 

Personally I don't think I would have sprayed a baby squirrel. A full grown one - sure. Perhaps a box or some container would have been more appropriate. Who knows what was really going on.

 

I would have picked it up and petted and cuddled the little cutie! :

 

Yeah, too little meat to cook.

 

he coulda given it a gentle kick if it got too close but honestly thats animal abuse it was so uncalled for

 

Yeah, that little squirrel was acting just like a baby squirrel I had once. It would run up to you wanting to play. Then He gets zapped with pepper spray? That was uncalled for.

 

Squirrels are a major nuisance in north florida. I don't know how they are other parts of the country but they suck here.

 

as an ex cop, I can say he probably had the mentality that he should never retreat...but in this case, that is what I would have done.
In this case, it would have been better to get the students into classrooms and out of possible harms way, then call animal control and just monitor the squirrel.
I would also need to know who called the cops and what was reported to the police in the phone call....before passing judgement on the cop

 

Im not sure about the rest of the country, but ALL Florida schools have 'school resource officers' (County Deputies) on campus at all times during school hours.

Its been that way for about the last 12 years, after a rash of kidnappings and school 'riots'. My high school had one in place after several large fights broke out following the Rodney King incident. It was later expanded to all public schools, K-12, shortly after I graduated in '93.

 

I clearly heard the officer tell the baby squirrel to quit resisting before he pepper sprayed it...

 

A young squirrel will run right up to you. I had one run up to me at a park. I threw a shirt over it and took it to a vet. The vet told me it was uncommon for squirrels to get rabies. It was hungry. I got a kit for raising orphaned kittens and raised it as a pet. It tamed down great. After about a year I turned it loose, it wanted to find a mate, and the same vet told me if I didn't release it ,it would grieve itself to death. TP

 

Here's some old school technology for ya. Stomp your feet a couple times and most small critters run away. If that doesn't work, toss a rock at it. If it is super tough ninja squirrel, kick it away.

 

Or, and this will probably seem a little extreme to you but I'm pitching it anyway, you could just leave it alone.

 

Should have ate it....

 

5 minutes earlier...

I suppose it was extreme, but the risk of Rabies is always present. Why didn't they call animal control instead of the Police?