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Porcupine_I on 11 April 2011
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sapphi_snake said:
Porcupine_I said:

catch it with your hands?  you have nothing to catch it and you have no cage. you walk away to get something a kid gets bitten meanwhile.

 he could have kicked or shot it, now that would have been stupid. but with the information i have i don't see him actung stupid. desperately maybe.

There probably was something in the school (a cage or something similar) where I could put him in. And I could've used some gloves (like the ones gardners use). Or I could've just thrown a bucket over him, and then called Animal Control. I wouldn't have walked away, but I would've tried not to hurt him. There was definately an alternative to the pepper spray, if you actually searched for it, and this wasn't such a desperate situation that required action without thinking (the kids could've just stayed inside teh school 'till the evil deadly baby squirell emergency was dealt with).

as i said, it is always easy to come up with better solutions if you have time to think about it and use words like "probably"

 but i can only go by what is see. the kids obviously didn't stay inside the school and the squirrel was actually attacking him, and there was no time to think or go look for a bucket or gloves.

i am not even denying that there were possible other, better solutions, but i can't see him acting stupid in this given situation.



“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’