RIP Whitey

“Dozens of students gathered around the lifeless body of Ohio State's famous albino squirrel, known as "Whitey," minutes after the campus celebrity was killed by a hawk on the South Oval.

Whitey's life was cut short at around 2 p.m. Friday when a hawk spotted his white fur coat from above and flew in for the kill. Several students walking through the South Oval witnessed the aftermath of the attack, the proud hawk looming over its prey.

Lindsey Conti, a freshman who is undecided, saw the hawk in the middle of the South Oval and walked closer to investigate.

"I got closer and said 'Oh my gosh it caught something,' and I thought it might have been a rabbit, but then Tim looked and said 'Oh my god, its the albino squirrel,'" Conti said.

Conti and her friends Tim Hoock, a freshman in business administration, and James Greenebaum, a freshman in biology, documented the tragedy with their camera phones while a crowd of 30 to 40 people quickly formed around the bird to witness Whitey's fate.

After about five minutes, the hawk flew away with its talons fastened to the squirrel's lifeless body. The hawk made it as far as the other side of the South Oval when Whitey's weight forced the predator to land. In some nearby shrubbery the hawk sampled his prey before flying away.

"It was basically flattened by the hawk and it looked like a stuffed animal," Greenebaum said. "It (the hawk) had blood and guts all hanging out of its mouth."

Shock and anger filled the South Oval.

"Once it flew away everyone just started saying how mad they were. They were mad it was dead because it's a south campus legend," Hoock said.

Since the death of Whitey, a Facebook group titled, "In Memory of Whitey the Albino Squirrel," has been created to commemorate the life and death of the beloved south campus celebrity. Currently, 599 students have joined the group and posted more than 50 comments.

http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2007/11/13/Campus/South.OvalKill-3097245.shtml”

“oh lord......”

“U of M sent that hawk special. >=P”

“LOL...Vile baby its CALLED NATURE. PETA should look into it.”

“I wonder what Whitney is undecided about?”

“watch it, the racial slur could get you in trouble, Dog................”

“LOL...Chappy you seen "Larry the Cable Guy Heath Inspector" yet? Great line in there about WHITEY”

“someone should send a lynch mob after the hawk”

“XL, hadn't seen that yet, I'll watch for it.....
You know, that hawk had a really MEAN look on its face....Homeland Security needs to know about this.........
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“Fricken College kiddies....God they are so LOST. I have a bunch of firefighters in college (guess who kicks their butts to get in, attend and graduate) and they get incredibly shocked by the sincere idiocy of their fellow students.

One of them went into class one morning after a fire, he had gotten a "boo-boo" when a piece of roof support collapsed and knocked his helmet off and cut his head.

One girl looked at him and asked what happened. When he told her she said,"That's dangerous....is firefighting really that dangerous?" (LOL)”

“The discussion reminds me of the story from a few years back where a bear attacked a fawn in the Smokies. A tourist threw rocks at the bear for the awful, I mean natural, thing it was doing. The tourist was arrested.”

“Nature is wrong and must be stopped.”

“LOL...thats what PETA and the Envriowackos say...(LOL)”

“I propose we spend 4B on a study to see what can be done to end this madness.”

“I propose we start taking GOVERNMENT OUT of private lives. Seems like the Constitution had the original idea down pretty good. The law was designed to protect the People from Government.”

“dont forget to mention commies and FEEEEEEEEEELINGS

jezus xl. only you could take a story about a dead squirrel and turn it into a big-government/small-government mini-rant”

“You know, that hawk had a really MEAN look on its face....

So is it a hatecrime?”

“south campus legend

WTF????????? What's the life expectancy of a wild albino - few months?”

“So is it a hatecrime?

Witnesses have come forward and said they heard the hawk just minutes before the attack say that he was "Going to get whitey" and "that honky mofo is lunch"”

“We need to hire "private contractors" to patrol the Ovals and Quads of our universities to protect all the little rodents from the hawkish behavior of others. maybe Blackwater might need to make adjustments to their business plan and add this type work to their schedule”

“"I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.
When I kill all the whities I see, then whitey he won't bother me,
I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see.
Then I'll get a white woman who's wearing a navy blue sweater.."”

“Violin is race baiting again.”

“Kill the White People:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN4-iv04QXY


But buy my record first”

“Then it comes to mind

(Carl the Greenskeeper in Caddyshack)

Carl Spackler: Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key... ”

“Shucks. The one month that it doesn't snow up north, and poor ol' Whitey got spied by a hawk.”

“Poor Whitey... (::[::]::) put a bandaid on it....”

“Darlington School has white squirrels on campus but they're not true albinos.

Remember these guys?
(and the T-shirts at Cafe Press)

    Crack the Sky:  "Surf City"

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