i don't condone cruelty top animals, but what would have been his alternatives?
the squirrel obviously behaved strange, or they would have not called him in the first place, and it even closed in instead of running away, he was right about suspecting rabies.
he is a police officer not a trained animal conntrol officer. he didn't have the equipment nor the knowledge how to deal with this situation, but he had a attacking squiirel and and there were obviously kids behind him.
now what else should he have done?
i wouldn't want to see the alternative headlines "kid kontracts rabies from squirrel because officer walks away"
i have seen people act stupid in my life, but this man is not one of them.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
