Deadly baby squirrel pepper spy by hero cop

[Porcupine_I]

Doobie_wop said:

Porcupine_I said:

Ugh, I already mentioned it in my first post. Squirrels can't carry, transfer or contract rabies. It's pretty much nearly impossible unless the area was hit by a bacterial bomb filled with rabies and every living being within 5 miles contracted rabies, then maybe the squirrel could have had rabies. The case is so rare, that the cop had a larger chance of getting beaten up by a random gorilla than being bitten by a baby squirrel with rabies.

The behaviour of the baby squirrel is natural, they are attractive and frantic when young and only get hesitant and anti-social when they are older. Go to any park in Australia and you'll find baby squirrels just running around, none of them with malicous intent.

The most likely scenario is that the kids probably kept feeding and playing around with the squirrel, a teacher saw what was going on and like dumb teachers do, they get worried and call the cops. Dumb cop comes, does dumb stuff and then says dumb stuff on national TV.

Like I said before, it'd be like getting scared and macing a puppy because they were running around, getting excited and jumping on you. If I saw the cop, I'd probably smack him across the head for lacking any sort of common sense or critical thinking.

you would hit a person because they don't know as much as you about squirrels? really?

I've hit people over far less, so yes. It's not even about knowledge, it's about common sense. It's not like the squirrel was foaming at the mouth, baring it's fangs and lunging at him. The cop deserves to be punished, hopefully he at least gets desk duty for the next few months, maybe he could read a book or two in that time, I'm sure it'd be torture.

Also, just in case, I edited my previous post.

Previous post edit: It even mentions that Animal control actually came straight after the cop, they cleaned it and said it was fine and let it off back in the wild. If the squirrel had rabies, then they'd have to get rid of it. Had the cop been an intelligent man, then he would have trapped the squirrel that was being 'irrational' (didn't realise that walking up to someone was a sign of rabies) under a bucket, a hat or even a pot and could have just waited for Animal Control. Giving idiots big boy toys is just ridiculous. 

to be honest i was at work before and listened to the video with sound for the first time now, and in this given situation i would have maced the people behind me first so i could hear myself think again!