Which I hope is partly excused with the fact that we don't have the disease here in Sweden (and that I didn't read the article very careful).
With that said, I'd like to point out that
-Squirrels are curious animals and can become more or less fearless of humans (although the one in the video puts up some red flags with its behaviour)
-Squirrels are almost never carriers of rabies
-There is not one single case of a squirrel attacking and infecting a human with rabies (as far as I know)
-There is a vaccine if you do get bitten.
-I have been bitten by a squirrel. It didn't draw blood, and I very much doubt that it could get through a pair of gloves. But they have nasty claws, so the combination might be a bit hazardous.
-If the cop thought it was rabid, why the hell did he use the pepper spray and then just stand and look at it? Either he should catch it in a box or something and wait for animal control or whatever people have jurisdiction on such cases to come and get it or he should have killed it as fast as he could.
With that said, I'd like to point out that
-Squirrels are curious animals and can become more or less fearless of humans (although the one in the video puts up some red flags with its behaviour)
-Squirrels are almost never carriers of rabies
-There is not one single case of a squirrel attacking and infecting a human with rabies (as far as I know)
-There is a vaccine if you do get bitten.
-I have been bitten by a squirrel. It didn't draw blood, and I very much doubt that it could get through a pair of gloves. But they have nasty claws, so the combination might be a bit hazardous.
-If the cop thought it was rabid, why the hell did he use the pepper spray and then just stand and look at it? Either he should catch it in a box or something and wait for animal control or whatever people have jurisdiction on such cases to come and get it or he should have killed it as fast as he could.
Rampaging baby squirrel pepper sprayed by Texas cop
- 11/04/2011 06:01:33 AM
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What an idiot
- 11/04/2011 01:39:47 PM
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Yes because it's very easy to grab a squirrel 
- 11/04/2011 03:00:05 PM
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- 11/04/2011 03:00:05 PM
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The squirrel was running towards him, which simplifies matter a lot
- 11/04/2011 11:44:24 PM
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well...if he thought it was rabid and didn't know how bad an effect the spray would have...
- 11/04/2011 02:48:17 PM
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I am with you. If the the squirrel was bothering them enough for someone to call the police that is
- 11/04/2011 11:23:35 PM
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A Red Neck's opinion.
- 11/04/2011 11:51:11 PM
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I'm pretty sure that it's totally illegal to try to shoot a squirrel on a school campus *NM*
- 12/04/2011 01:44:01 AM
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*NM*
- 12/04/2011 01:44:01 AM
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I totally missed the rabies thing
- 12/04/2011 12:01:04 AM
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yah, the big red flag for me was the ATTRACTION to humans
- 12/04/2011 01:53:27 AM
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Actually, that is not an uncommon behavior among juvenile squirrels
- 12/04/2011 11:18:52 AM
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Is that so uncommon among those aggressive grey squirrels you've got over there?
- 14/04/2011 09:44:03 PM
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I checked with my dog
- 12/04/2011 02:06:39 AM
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Probably makes them easier to catch 
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- 12/04/2011 02:33:53 AM
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*NM*
- 12/04/2011 02:33:53 AM
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*NM*