Comments on: Squirrels Torch Man’s House. Twice.

By: Cindie

Cindie — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:15:36 +0000

The Hell with squirrels. My wonderful, kind, gentle ex-brother-in-law died in a house fire caused when squirrels chewed through the attic wiring of his (deceased) parent’s newly-renovated house!

Ask me if I give a damn about the destructive little critters — NO, NO, AND HELL NO!

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:30:10 +0000

I love how people get so up in arms about animals being “hurt” when everyday thousands of people are suffering worse than any squirrel. BUT LETS NOT THINK ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THERE IS A POOR WITTLE SQUIRREL BEING LAUNCHED ALL OF 10 FEET!

WATCH OUT YOU JUST STEPPED ON AN ANT YOU CRUEL CRUEL PERSON! WAIT IS THAT A MICROBE YOU JUST SNEEZED OUT OF EXISTANCE?! HOW COULD YOU?!

By: fluff

fluff — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:32:25 +0000

Hahaha… I love comments like georges here. “Don’t post stuff like this or I’ll go to mummy and cry and never ever come back”. Just brilliant…

By: george

george — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:15:11 +0000

I’m just posting to say that I visit neatorama.com daily, and while many understandably don’t find the “nudge the animal sympathizers” posting (did it have to happen twice? why would a site typically so fun-oriented have to rub our faces in this? it’s a little bit ugly) I don’t like it and I won’t be returning here. I don’t care if my single visit matters, I just won’t subscribe to you anymore because you people have some issues to work out with your blog posters. That or you’re collectively insensitive and this blog as a whole is disingenuous.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:39:41 +0000

Last time I’ll post on this subject.

Instead of screaming about how you “feel” or what you “think”, simply look up the facts.

In all of three minutes I found numerous references on the resilience of squirrels. They routinely jump 35 feet from trees to the ground.

Also, if you haven’t noticed, this blog routinely posts things like this to get folks riled up. This is as far as I know the first time it linked to a previous controversial post to get more mileage.

I “think/feel” that this whole thing is hilarious. Keep up the good work Neatorama.

Annoying morans is fun.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:53:13 +0000

No one knows why, but on destructive activity squirrels love to do is peal the insulation off of electrical wires. I guess they think they are debarking a limb to lick the juices. Thousands of attic fires are caused by squirrels every year. Even when they die, their bodies can catch on fire and burn a house down.

The Catapulting squirrels video was funny. Squirrels are just rats with a bushy tail.

By: Mike S

Mike S — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:22:24 +0000

Leave the squirrels alone. Humans are destroying everything they touch on the planet, like irresponsible children. Leave the freaking animals alone, that’s so shallow it’s repulsive.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:28:41 +0000

Wow. “You people” that honestly think a colander attached to bungee cords could even remotely injure a squirrel have obviously not paid very much attention to squirrels in nature. A squirrel’s tail is like a parachute, and you can even see in the video that the squirrel was already reorienting itself, much like a cat when it falls.

By: ted

ted — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:30:50 +0000

Lots of power outages are caused by squirrels getting into high voltage boxes and frying themselves. Pernicious little devils, they are.

Excellent riposte to the previous squirrel post, by the way. Next time, somebody abuses a dog or cat, we could have a post about how dogs bite people or cats kill songbirds.

(lol. I think I’m becoming a S#!+ disturber)

By: aj

aj — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:12:03 +0000

You people who think making a joke about cruelty to animals is so bad need to lighten up.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:31:23 +0000

Catapulting squirrels is NOT funny. It’s unspeakably cruel. The squirrel does NOT understand what it’s doing when it knocks the power line loose and will certainly not understand its “punishment”. You people who think cruelty to animals is funny need some sensitivity training about animal suffering. Shame on you!

By: biltmore

biltmore — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:45:33 +0000

That’s a bad squirrel!!!

By: Tiago

Tiago — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:43:41 +0000

is this just a lame way to justify not removing a video containing animal cruelty? .. just remove the video!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:33:43 +0000

Oh, lighten up.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:16:21 +0000

Shouldn’t those lines be held securely in place by the power company who installed them? Designed not be easily knocked off by a small animal? So, how exactly does this become the fault of the squirrel in which you can say it deserves violent retribution possible resulting in injury or death?