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Crazy UCLA Squirrel

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Monday, 28 January 2008

Ok, so this isn't news. It's hardly even interesting, but the other day I got attacked by a squirrel. This squirrel. It tried to eat my foot. I was wearing slippers at the time, but that's not really an excuse to take a bite...

I was sitting at the bus stop waiting for the bus. The sun was shining. All of a sudden a squirrel darts out. Not an unusual site for UCLA as they are pretty much everywhere. I ~~like~~ liked squirrels. They look kinda cute. The way they move, and run and hide and stuff.

They're pretty scarce in England, or at least they hide from people, cos they know what they'll get if they didn't. People around UCLA are a little kinder, and the squirrels can often be seen eating nuts from the hands of some of the people in the food court.

Well I guess this one thought I would be a source of food, so darted out and then just stared at me, like it was thinking "Feed me then!".

I decided to play with it a little, to amuse myself while waiting for the bus, and that is when I found out how vicious it was. It darted around and decided to take little bites out of my toe. "That's not nice" I thought. I took a few pictures, as I thought that it wouldn't be too often that I would get this close to a squirrel. I also took some video footage of the beast with my phone (contained at the end of this entry). It was then that I noticed the marks on it's body, clumps of hair missing, a dodgy eye, a few scratch marks, all signs that this was definitely a crazy little critter that had probably been in a few fights with other squirrels or something. I soon got bored of being attacked and decided to move away. Still convinced that I was a source of food, it stuck by me. It wasn't until one of the ground staff came along and threatened it with a leaf blower that it left me alone and darted off into the bushes.

Next time I'll think twice before playing with the UCLA Squirrels.

While trying to find music to go with the footage of the crazy squirrel, I found a song by comedian Ray Stevens. The song Mississippi Squirrel Revival quite fits my story, nearly.

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Rose - Attack of the Squirrels

|01-28-2008 19:21:34

Were you never told as a child not to play with squirrels? Maybe it was after
your nuts. :)

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K	\|01-28-2008 21:39:23

After my nuts? Ouch! Thank God it didn't get that far.

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xuehong

|02-20-2008 15:07:06

I often get scared when my daughter tries to play with them. My experience in
Vancouver told me: Never play with squirrels--- they are rats with bigger tails!

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Avi Cohen - Theifs

|06-30-2008 12:00:08

Wait until you set your sandwich down for a second. They come running and snatch
it before you can even react.

btw, if you ever have trouble getting into your
UCLA classes because they're full, try www.getyourclass.com

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Name - UCLA Squirrels

|07-01-2009 17:48:46

I feel vindicated! I've been charged by these things more than once because I
tried to give them some nuts.

They're like North Korea. When they want food
they just threaten you!

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