Top Secret Animal Attack Files

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Squirrel goes to school and makes trouble

CRESTLINE: The critter jumps on a teacher's arm, then infiltrates a first-grade classroom.
02/20/2002


By KATIE E. ISMAEL
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE

CRESTLINE - It was a vicious squirrel. A squirrel with an attitude.

And it chased a class of first-graders and their teacher out of their room at a Crestline school on Tuesday, officials said. Then it chased them back in.

Earlier, it had jumped on the arm of a teacher.

Staff at the Valley of Enchantment school called authorities for help about 1:40 p.m.

"Staff . . . stated there was a vicious squirrel on campus," said sheriff's Detective Chuck Wyatt.

About 20 students had been in a portable classroom with the door open when "the squirrel waltzed in," said Principal Terry Stanfill.

"Everybody ran outside," Wyatt said.

Then the squirrel chased them back inside, Stanfill said. This time they closed the door, he said.

Stanfill said he went to the other classrooms to alert teachers not to let students out.

"We've got a wacko squirrel," he said.

A sheriff's deputy was sent to the school to keep an eye out for the squirrel as the school day ended and students left, said Wyatt.

The squirrel made its first appearance on campus at lunch time when it jumped on a teacher's arm, Stanfill said. The teacher was not hurt, he said.

Usually squirrels are timid and stay away from humans, Stanfill said. This one was acting strangely.

"It comes toward you," he said.

The rodents can lose their natural shyness if they are fed by humans, according to a University of Florida Web site that provides reference material on squirrels.

After its adventures on campus, the squirrel returned to the treetops. Animal control officials will try to capture the rodent, said Stanfill.

"Last I heard," said Wyatt, "the squirrel was in the tree," eying people.”

“My worst nightmare comes true. Be afraid. Be very afraid.”

“We had pet squirrels that we raised from infancy after their mother got hit in the road. They can be quite aggressive when they want to be. Ever been used as a tree?”

“Ever been used as a tree?"
skullcap
02:41:44 PM

Hell Skully, that`s enough to put a woody on most any man!LMAO

You can`t ask questions like that to this bunch of tree lovers!LOL”

“Damb buncha tree huggers!”

“We were attacked by squirrels at the One-Mile House on the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon. People would sit down and the squirrels would jump into their packs with them still on the peoples' backs...”

“Yeah, we had some squirrel confrontations while on the Bright Angel trail also. One of the boys lost his lunch to one particularly brave and clever little bugger.”

“Can`t help it,.. trees are just as erotic as hell,.. you got your enter-twining-limbs, root, that bark and bite thingie, knot-holes, some that is holes, hard/soft wood and the trunk, just to name a few. I still remember my last piece of ash!LOL

To many tree hugers in this bunch for that kindda talk!

Pecker-heads!LOL”

“Oh Yeah... Click on the drawing to access other tales of terror (not necessarily about squirrels).

'tree huggers'... riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, LOL”

“I thing Big Foot may be a little sqirrely.”

“Now this is turning into another "Preposition Thread"... like 'what a squirrel does to a tree', or ... ?

BOL!”

“Why didn`t someone stop me?LOL”

“If that was to happen, some people here would Never post anything, LOL”

“"I thing Big Foot may be a little sqirrely."
skullcap
03:01:46 PM

So it`s come down to name calling has it? And you fixin` up a nest with a Goose!LOL”

“True dat Tilt!!!LOL”

“Here come the Goose Puns! I'll check y'all later!”

“Take care Tilt!”

“Tilt....you have been warned....A.C.O.R.N. will not tolerate your propaganda any longer..The squirrels have sent me as their representative. The human faction of A.C.O.R.N. known as N.U.T.S. are willing to forget this act...you can help us in our plot of squirrel supremacy!!!!!!”

“An' Brer Fox, he lay low...”

“Damb buncha tree huggin squirrels.”

“My son was attacked by a goose once. He was about 10 and we were golfing. On a par five that doglegged around a pound he was walking just ahead of me to the right I saw a goose headed for him in a straight line. I inteceded with a four iron just in time.”

“Warning!

Scary Squirrel World”

“Records of an actual attack on the University of New Mexico Law School.

Squirrel Attack's Sudden End”

“There was a story a few days ago, where a golden eagle tried to fly off with a child at a beach...I forget where. The kid's father was taking photos/video...they had a pic of the eagle attacking his girl.”

“Yeah, them Bright Angel Trail squirrels have no fear of people. I got some real good close ups on film. My brother even had one standing on his knee wanting Chex Mix. Good thing they weren't bears.”

“My kids were little and we decided to load them up and haul off back up in the woods to have a picnic. We pulled off the main road on to an old logging road and then ran that out to almost it`s end before turning off on to a pig trail of sorts that wound it`s way back off into a stand of some old growth hard-wood trees.

Someone had dumped a load of brush halfway down the trail so, I got out to move the brush outta the way so we could get past it. While I was busy with that, a yearling deer burst outta the thicket and tore down along the side of the truck and plowed into me like a linebacker. We ended up in a tangle, with the deer wanting rid of me and me trying to catch it. I lost and the deer got up and me right in behind it for a short foot race I couldn`t win. The wife and kids laughed their fool heads off at me and the oldest boy was all upset `cause I didn`t catch him a deer.

I had just about decided it was funny too and we were just talking and carring on like that when this doe up and does the same thing the yearling had done. It plowed into me and stomped me good too, I don`t mind telling you before she went her own way as well.

The oldest boy screams out, run catch her dad, she`s old like you, you can prolly catch her,.. I couldda killed him, but his mother wouldn`t let me, `sides I didn`t fare that well with the two deer, he mightta whupped up on me too, the way my luck was going!LOL”

“I love to hunt, if they had a sharp stick hunting season I guess I`d cut one and go. Bow season was going on and my oldest red-haired brother and I went out early one morning to try our luck. We decide to set two stands we had close together that watched these different draws that couldn`t be covered with just one stand.

We both saw plenty of deer that morning, but we`d decided to only kill a buck and let the does walk. As luck would have it the only bucks we saw weren`t close enough for a shot so, we just watched the deer feed around us.

It was getting on close to noon and I`d about had enough of it, my rump felt like it had grown to the tree-stand. `Bout then this old barren doe walks up to my stand and sets in to munchin` acorns like they were apples. She has herself a time with those white-oak-acorns and goes to slobbering all over the place.

My brother`s ready to go too and he looks over at me and waves. I point down and he sees the doe at the foot of my tree. Just for grins, I decide to poke her in the rump with the end of an arrow, just to see what she`ll do.

She`s making so much racket munchin` acorns and rakin` leaves back she doesn`t hear or see me climb down the tree a bit and lean over. I don`t stick her hard at all and she jumps up and almost knocks me outta the tree before hauling off towards my brother.

She runs within ten feet of him and stops and blows and stomps her front feet at me trying to get me to move so she can make out what just caused her to haul off like she had. Her neck is going at it with that owl neck looking thing they do and all of a sudden my brother lets go of an arrow and just misses her.

That doe truns wrong side out getting gone, but runs smack at my brother`s treestand and goes between the tree and the latter rungs and sticks her head in the rungs as she`s doing it.

Down comes brother and the stand and for just a few hops it looks like one of those goat carts from hell. I take in to laughing at him and her and I fall outta the tree I`m in, but I wasn`t but about five foot off the ground by then.

I don`t know which one of those two were the most scared right then, but it was so funny I couldn`t help him for laughing. The doe finally got up and ran off, brother had to be helped outta the woods!LOL”

“Walkindude, the Ravens up at the campground are pretty serious about getting food and fearless as well. We lost quite a bit of bread to them our first afternoon there. You'd be amazed what they can figure out how to open when there's a meal inside it. If they ever team up with the squirrels the South Rim will be a scary place indeed.”

“Hey Big Foot you were talking about trees.I love them.But I like them the most when there is tons of moss growing on them and it looks real green that rocks!!!!!

8)”

“its crazy mike,.. I know what you mean about those green trees, we got this one monster of a brute and everyone calls it the Sasquatch
stand,.. it`s not where they were setting when they said they saw bigfoot though!”

“Do you have a picture of it?

8)”

“Yes,.. but not hooked to the net, I`ll get my son to send `em to you first chance he gets.”

“That would be great.Did you go see my new pictures on the clubs website?

NWIHBC Trip Report thread.

Go check them out.

8)”

“I`ll give it a look see,..Thanks!”

“Your welcome.

8)”

“While installing a sod lawn one time, i noticed a large buck and doe in the lower yard. Next thing i know the buck is charging me, head down antlers up for all he's worth. I dove out of the way and he just grazed me. Another time a little old lady client was walking down a path on her estate when a huge buck charged her. There was no place to go and she stood there petrified. All of a sudden her trusty australian shephard jumped in front of the buck and took the hit. Then the buck reared back and charged her again, but old Rocky was to quick and once again took the hit. By now he's got pucture wounds all over him and was taken to the vet. Needless to say, after that i could always tell when deer were around, he would be shaking like a leaf. I would be too...”

“Poor dog!

8(”

“Some dog food or cat food company gives out hero awards to family pets...Rocky deserves it. Good brave dog!!!”

“The wood rat (Wild animals album on my webpage) was crazy. He had already knocked my beer over and was drinking it. He was fighting off the other one that was trying to get a drink too. I sat on my chair wrapped in my sleeping bag, watching the Leonids. I felt something on my leg, so I turned on my flashlight and the rat was running towards my face! I yelled and flung him off. He came back a few minutes later, and that's when I caught the photo of him running up, then down SnowDude's leg. That sucker was drunk and fast!”

“I had a Mockingbird attack me once. I walked to close to its nest.”