Dead (Murdered?) Squirrel Raises Questions
So here’s a strange one. We got a call from our tenant yesterday morning that there was a dead squirrel in our front yard. Not just a dead squirrel, she said, but a squirrel that looked like it had been shot. Say what? When we got home in the late afternoon we were rather taken…
So here’s a strange one. We got a call from our tenant yesterday morning that there was a dead squirrel in our front yard. Not just a dead squirrel, she said, but a squirrel that looked like it had been shot. Say what? When we got home in the late afternoon we were rather taken aback to find that she had not been exaggerating. A squirrel with a gaping hole the size of a golf ball in its neck had been deposited in front of the door under the stoop. It’s a pretty gruesome photo, so we’ve put the unedited version on the jump to enable selective viewing, but we’re wondering if anyone else has encountered anything like this? Do you think it was some kind of horrible Halloween prank? A message from a developer who’s been on the receiving end of an unfavorable review on the site? Strange days indeed. Most peculiar Mama.
WARNING: Photo on the jump shows a mutilated dead squirrel.
I did it.
Some day The What is going to get a job ……
Excellent thread. The squirrels need a hate-crime law. Stop the cat-on-squirrel madness!
I would be more worried if this WAS a gunshot, which it doesn’t look lilke to me, just because that means there’s some dickhead in Brooklyn shootin’ shit. However, I wouldn’t be surprised. My friend in Hoboken once went all Bill-Murray-in-Caddyshack on his squirrels–destructive, aggressive little boogers–and poisoned a bunch of ’em. He then had to deal with their unpleasant tendency to die in inconvenient places, like the neighbor’s yard, or under his deck.
I’m not at all surprised about squirrels’ unpopularity–they screw up gardens and eat your veggies. They are, however, cute–closest thing to monkeys I happen to have in my backyard, and plucky little fuckers. So I’ve decided not to bother fighting them, and try to plant things they don’t want to ruin. It’s a battle you’re never gonna win.
Meanwhile, if some developer wanted to threaten/menace you, Mr. B., I’d like to think they could come up with something scarier than a mutilated rodent–you see those all the time in NYC. If you can’t come up with a horse head–the time-honored classic–a good old rotten fish mailed in a box would be much more dramatic than a squirrel, and easier to come by. Not to give people any ideas….
“I believe the culprit hails from a trailer park community in Alabama.”
Nah, in that case there would be no body lying around.
Squirrel. It’s what’s for dinner.
AMBER ALERT
Hey in all seriousness this has happened to me before. Last halloween a squirrel was found with his head decapitated in front of my neighbors yard. I live in Fort Greene, does any one think its possible that we have a serial squirrel killer on the loose. I was watching Americas most wanted and there is a squirrel killer on the loose. I believe the culprit hails from a trailer park community in Alabama. His childhood psychologists when interviewed stated that his mental stability deteriorated when he was a mere 10 years of age. He said it coincided with FOX stopped airing the saturday morning cartoon Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Fuck The What.
Stupid squirrel-biting hipsters!
“That squirrel will be worthless when AY is built.”
“perhaps a tiny freezing jedi cut open the squirrel to climb in and stay warm”.
*SNORT* LOL
On a more serious note, a few weeks ago I saw just the bottom half of a squirrel on the sidewalk, that was really gross, not sure what did it and the construction workers from one of the two building under reno must have dumped it in the dumpster, ‘cuz it was gone when I got back. No idea where the top part of the poor critter got to.
Definitely a feral cat. I caught one a few weeks ago in my backyard in Bed-Stuy with a squirrel in its mouth– sadly, by the time I got to it, it was only half a squirrel.
(And I say ‘sadly’ because I would’ve preferred to clean up a whole dead squirrel instead the mangled half that remained by the time I found it. Gross.)