Mesquite ISD Cop Pepper-Sprays Squirrel As Students Shriek In Protest

• ANY mammal can carry rabies, expert.

• It probably was hungry and thought the people had food. The squirrels at UH go up to people because the students feed them Doritos and Cheetos. What results are the fattest and most docile squirrels I've ever seen. Squirrels are not known rabies vectors. It doesn't take a person who worked at an animal shelter for a year to figure that out, but many cops are dumb, rabid mammals.

• Don't you realize, The Terrorists are now training squirrels to carry out suicide bombing missions! This officer is a HERO.

• Jesus - Squirrels don't carry rabies! http://www.health.ri.gov/disease/communicable/rabies/transmission.php

• Again... http://www.health.ri.gov/disease/communicable/rabies/transmission.php Know what you're talking about before commenting

• Probably not - squirrels are not generally rabies carriers... http://www.health.ri.gov/disease/communicable/rabies/transmission.php

• Squirrels and rabies: http://rabies.emedtv.com/rabies/rabies-and-squirrels.html Turns out it's extremely rare. Squirrel was probably just looking for free french fry handouts, from the way those kids were screaming. :(

• Wow, another classic example of some fatty cop doing something their not supposed to be doing. While cops are loosing their jobs, we keep the ones that are intimidated by a baby squirrel, classic. What an idiot!

• Uh, that's what vaccinations are for.

• Shouldnt assume... Thats a bad assumption. So stupid people are assumed to be sick? lol

• THE COP SHOULD HAVE THROWN A BLANKET OVER THE SQUIRREL AND TAKEN IT AWAY...STUPID ACT OF CRUELTY TO AN ANIMAL.....'NO COMMON SENSE......SURPRISED HE DIDN'T CALL OUT THE SWAT TEAM......

• It doesnt have rabies...... People really dont know what the chances of an animal like a squirrel having rabies... Should be prosecuted

• WOW rabies really?!?!?! If it has rabies then it needs to go to A & M to be part of a study... Find a case of a squirrel with rabies...

• if the little squirrel is used to kids feeding it... it probably approaches people a little aggressively for food. they do it at the park, on rice campus, etc. it basically knows that it will get treats by acting like this.

• Umm yeah and the cat would subsequently die of rabies, but not before infecting everyone.

• You idiot, it may be in an asymptomatic phase. Not every disease is in symptomatic phase all the time, like your mental retardation. Besides, it was unusual that the squirrel didn't run away.

• Yeah or it had RABIES which makes it aggressive.

• @ Richard Doll did you parents have any children that are from the deep end of the gene pool, your comment is as dumb as a box of rocks. The cop is the biggest PUSSY I've ever seen policing the squirrel population this state used to have some pretty good peace officers that could be trusted to use a little common sense.

• Well Dr. Dude - Any wild animal is governed by FIGHT or FLIGHT and a little critter that is going to fight a full grown human is assumed to be sick. Hopefully.

• dear richard doll, you are quite possibly retarded or you have an extra chromosome somewhere in your genome. At what point does that squirrel act like an rabid animal Dr. Pasteur?

• If it has rabies it has the potenial to kill. This squirel is behaving like a rabid animal, so quite possibly the officer is doing the right thing.

• But why? How can a baby squirrel be threatening in any way? I mean, seriously?

• Animal abuse.

• The kids do run the school don't they. And it's perfectly OK with their parents. And the cop had best do what they want unless he has a written/dated/signed order to the contrary.

• Not sure which is worse, spraying a squirrel with pepper spray or that the cop backed up several times. Used to have a cat that would have made a quick meal of the squirrel.

• This is simultaneously funny and awful. That squirrel had balls, though, charging that cop.

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