Police use pepper spray on a baby squirrel

[bad rider]

Why was everyone backing away from the squirrel? Did it have a knife that wasn't shown in the video?

 

[Dirzzit]

Damn police, you scary!

 

[Zorg Machine]

It's a baby squirrel...why is it that the police seems to pepper spray everything with pathetic strength these days?
the 8 year old a couple of days ago and now this...just throw a small box over it.

when a problem can be solved with tossing a shoe box, the pepper spray is not required.

 

[TwoSidesOneCoin]

Wow....there truly is no facepalm picture worthy of this. How fucking, I can't even think of an adjective to use here, they all fail to grasp the thought I want to insert into the question.

I suppose all I can say is: They sure don't train cops like they used to. It was a fucking squirrel!! At worst all it would have done was piss on your legs or made you run around in circles screaming like the 5 year old animal torturer that you probably were!

Crap like this just pisses me off!

Act like you have some g-damn sense!

or it could of bitten him and given him the one of the most deadly diseases known (100% mortaility rate if not treated quickly) as the squirrel was suspected to be rabid

You know, this will probably catch me some flak, but here goes.

If you manage to get bit by a baby squirrel. Think about that one for a second. Baby. Squirrel. How the hell you gonna manage to protect the other people in the vicinity? Couldn't he have used a less harmful way to deter said baby squirrel? Like shooing it away with a broom? The spray just seems like overkill!

Granted I never read the link as I had just gotten home from 12 hours shift, although that's not much of an excuse for not following that through.

(captcha: see qualtha) (who the hell is qualtha and what do I need to go see her for anyways?!)

Later all, gotta go see qualtha now.

 

[Arehexes]

I hope he gets shot by someone for this

Good to see people care more about animals then their fellow human kind. But if the squirrel was rabid then yeah you kinda need to knock it out so you can catch it and have it studied. And to everyone else who thinks the cop should be shot I rather you live with wild animals and see how long you last with them.

 

[intheweeds]

Ok, for arguments sake, lets say the squirrel had crazy foaming at the mouth full blown rabies. How does macing it help anything? If it has infectious rabies, it should be put down and quickly. I fail to see how spraying it would fix the problem. It might not come after the officer anymore, but if it goes from being too friendly to terrified and takes off, how many more rabies squirrels will you create?

Sounds more like stupidity than anything. Assuming the little dude had rabies to begin with... Its cruel and stupid no matter how you look at it.

Also, a squirrel with no fear of humans near a school full of giggling girls is not surprising to me at all. The hospital i used to work at had tons of squirrels living around it. You could feed them from your hand because for ages everyone had thought they were cute and fed them so they learned not to fear. I used to have one that would scream at my apartment window for food all the time too. A squirrel coming up to you is quite common. People think they're cute, is it so shocking that maybe a baby squirrel might have been 'taught' not to fear the school full of kids that probably feed them?

 

[Liudeius]

We need someone to police the police, there are so many brutalities. This in particular isn't much worse than what quite a few teenagers do, but to see such sadistic behavior in an "enforcer of the law" makes me wish it weren't virtually impossible to win a self-defense case when you were defending yourself against the cops.

 

[The Lawn]

Momentary discomfort of one animal for the prevention of possible harm to one or more persons.
Seems like a pretty good reason to me.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I don't know. Some animals shouldn't be underestimated,.....

 

[direkiller]

Its expensive to treat($500-$1000) its a few shots over a week and its painful(he also cant work for that period of time)

Not everywhere has animal control often cops are the ones that have to deal with them

in bigger city's cops are called then they call animal control

Just throwing out thoughts here, but the police department is likely to be one of those silly institutions that gives out medical insurance to it's employees? And even they somehow didn't, if he's called to be there and take care of it, it's a work-related injury, so the department pays for it.

Also, to repeat again, there's no guarantee he'd get bitten, nor even one that the squirrel is infected. The chances of both being true are actually not that big.

As for whether there's animal control... I could be wrong, but those sound like American accents. Even if it was a backwater place and it doesn't look like it from the video, America's pretty well covered with animal control services as far as I'm aware.

there in Texas(read the article not just the video) it even links the school there at

Just because HMO's should cover something doesn't mean the cop should put himself in the spot to have to get a rabbits shot+whatever else the thing may carry(and he whould need the shots regardless of the animal having anything or not) and miss a week+ of work to not put the animal in some discomfit for 10min while the thing is moved. He took the action he thought was best suited for getting all party out unharmed. He succeed(no children,him,or the squirrel was hurt)

 

[punkrocker27]

my guess is he worked at the school, and if anything did happen to those kids, it'd be the school's ass and then they'd come down on him hard

yet another bugger who likes to comment without reading the link. He was called in by the school who suspected the squirrel is rabid. pple like you makes the internet full of uneducated comments.

Is that an exact damn quote from the article then? I assume it is, since you seem to be oh so adamant about that sort of thing. Because from what I read it didn't give any confirmation towards the claim either way.

FYI I did indeed read all like 3 paragraphs of the article before commenting, but seeing as the writers on that obscure little website decided it was such a non-story that they didn't need to go into detail or even update it at all, all we have to go on here is speculation. Certainly something deserving of you to jump down my very throat about. It's okay, in the end people like you make the world a better place, what with all your reactionary bullshit.

TL;DR: A squirrel got maced, big deal. I lol'd by the way.

 

[Garrsus]

unless the squirrel had rabies, which i doubt it did, then ok but if not someone should mace his babies and see how he likes it.

 

[zhoominator]

Snippety

You're my hero! [sub](I've always wanted to call people out on these dodgy news stories)[/sub]

I also find it highly amusing considering the other thread on the front page about outrage stories (a thread started before this one)! Shame that people can't read.

 

[Hosker]

I find the title of this thread to be amusing.

 

[MarcusD357]

I'm guessing that seeing as everyone had gathered around the policeman and the squirrel and someone had bothered to video the whole thing that it was either a previously announced squirrel-abusing event or it was because the squirrel was rabid or something. Probably the latter.
Although if it was because the squirrel was rabid then the mace isnt going to help it much, it should be killed quickly and humanely instead of causing it a load of pain.

 

[Bloodstain]

I'd rather a peppersprayed baby squirrel than a possibly rabid squirrel biting children and whatnot.

 

[Olofelefant]

Weird that the police responded, but there really is no better way for someone untrained in animal issues to deal with possibly rabid animals. What he needs is the proper equipment, something that animal control should have had. That said it used to be that suspected rabid animals were simply shot. Pepper spray just seems to be a waste of time in that respect.

have you ever tried to shoot a rabid baby squirrel? they are tough to hit

Have you ever tried to?

 

[Someone Depressing]

I'm sure Squirrels can Get Rabies, so anyone who's like "whaaa hes spraying it wth pppr sryaaa!!11!" it was probally a Rabid: And, did you know, Rabid animals CAN KILL YOU?!

Even if it wasn't Rabid, it could still bite people, and simply Biting something hard enough can Infect it and Give it Bacterial Poisoning, And I assume there was Children who hadn't taken any kind of shots/medicine/or something for that.