# Scary Squirrels! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-squirrels/136145 "2002-11-10T15:52:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-squirrels/136145/1 "2002-11-10T15:52:05Z")
[http://www.scarysquirrel.org/](http://www.scarysquirrel.org/) I don’t know what to say - I’m too scared ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-squirrels/136145/2 "2002-11-10T19:40:48Z")
Weird… ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-squirrels/136145/3 "2002-11-10T20:01:03Z")
I’ve been attacked by a squirrel once… KInda. I was climbing a tree cuz I was bored, and I saw a squirrel, and it started to come towards me, from another treee, and I tried to retreat and I fell out of the tree and ripped my sweater. Very scary experience. I’m scarred for life. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-squirrels/136145/4 "2002-11-11T07:38:12Z")
I like squirrels. Maybe only North American Gray Squirrels - not the UK kinds. From Reuters: [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20021108/od\_nm/squirrel\_dc](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20021108/od_nm/squirrel_dc) > [@](#): > > LONDON (Reuters) - A squirrel which terrorized a British town by attacking people has been shot and killed by the grandfather of its latest victim. > > Geoff Horth, enraged by the squirrel biting his two-year-old grand-daughter Kelsi Morley on the face, took up his airgun and hunted down the rogue rodent, the Sun newspaper said on Friday. > > “When I tracked him down I was surprised how big he was. He came down a tree and headed for me, but I shot him before he jumped,” the 61-year-old school caretaker told the newspaper. > > The bad-tempered squirrel’s reign of terror in the town of Knutsford in central England had made parents frightened to let their children out to play. > > Animal experts say it is very unusual for squirrels to behave in such an aggressive way toward humans. > > Horth was philosophical about his role as gun-totting local hero. “Its a shame he went nuts, but I couldn’t let this little beggar hold the town to ransom,” he told the newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![KiPPoS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9adbd/32.png) [@KiPPoS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KiPPoS)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-squirrels/136145/5 "2002-11-11T07:41:02Z")
My army pal was attacked by a squirrel. It was a dark autumn night…we were camping 50m away from the barracks (#@&$%¤!!!). He was on “spark duty” and went out for a smoke. That’s when it happened. A squirrel charged right at him and climbed up his leg! We woke up when he screamed and charged back in the tent. When he told us what happened we laughed our asses off. But my joy was short-lived. Next fireguard shift was mine…there I sat in the dark…nobody else was awake but me and the squirrels… ---
**Author:** ![AntaresJB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-squirrels/136145/6 "2002-11-11T07:52:18Z")
The only time a squirrel caused me injury was when I was walking down this big flight of stairs outside one of my class buildings and there was a squirrel sitting about three feet away next to a tree just looking at me. I have a weakness for small fuzzy animals, and I was staring at it going, “Awwww, you’re so cute!”… missed a step and stumbled down 4 concrete steps before having the presence of mind to grab the railing. Unfortunately caught the metal-bar railing in my armpit… owww… But I still like squirrels. They have fluffy tails and twitchy noses. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-squirrels/136145/7 "2002-11-11T10:58:25Z")
I used to (and plan to resume) take morning walks up a nearby mountain and it amused me to keep a squirrel count. And then it hit me: _all squirrels look alike, what if it’s only a single squirrel and he’s been following me?_ After that, I only counted squirrels when I could see two of them at the same time. They’re tricky little bastards.