Our Tax Dollars At Work

[sleepsong]

Today at about 5:45 I called the police and asked them to send Animal Control over to my place, because a squirrel had gotten in and I was having trouble encouraging the poor little destructive thing to leave. About 20 minutes later I called again and spoke to a lovely dispatcher and asked her to cancel the call, because I'd managed to get the

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[red_haired_girl]

Well, they might have gotten there on time, then this would have happened :-)

NPR's "Squirrel Cop"

http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/driveway/archive/2003/jan/030123.html

[red_haired_girl]

err - here http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=115

[sleepsong]

I will listen to that when I am more awake, but... A couple of years ago I was working retail, when one day my younger brother calls me out of the blue from New Jersey asking if I knew where our parents (whom he lives with) were. I didn't know. He then asked about the phone number of a family friend who has a small farm. I asked him what was wrong and if he was in trouble. He said no, but that a squirrel had come in down the chimney. I had to sit down for a while, I was laughing so hard at this point

[weaz3l]

Yeah...when I was in high school we had a squirrel get in through our chimney. We had a Border Collie, a Poodle, and about four cats plus a ferret at the time. Half of them were hiding and the other half didn't even care. My dad was PISSED because we have custom woodworking on the inside of our house and...well...you can guess what Mr. TreeRat did to that. On a more humorous note it was amusing when my dad chased it out with a shotgun and the neighbors called asking if we were ok because they saw my dad running out the front door and around the side of the house screaming and wielding a rifle.

And for squirrel lovers out there don't worry, he got away.