Squirrel Attacks Cop: It Should Have Been A Defensive Gun Use!

January 1, 2018

“Police in Brockport, New York were called to help with an uninvited squirrel inside a home,” abc11.com reports. “The squirrel ran all over the place, but eventually, officers were able to catch it. The rambunctious rodent was released outside, and no one was hurt.” Yes BUT —

https://youtu.be/j1nnamb6plg

Rambunctious? That damn tree rat attacked the cop! In other words, it posed an imminent threat of grievous bodily harm to the responding officer. It should have been a defensive gun use!

Or not. We report, you deride.

32 COMMENTS

Ralph January 1, 2018 At 11:14

Rocky squirrel found, Natasha, but where is moose?
- LKB January 1, 2018 At 12:16
  
  A Møøse once bit my sister. . . .
  - BLoving January 1, 2018 At 12:34
    
    That {rabbit} squirrel is dynamite!
    🤠
  - jwm January 1, 2018 At 12:59
    
    Weren’t you sacked from the credits?
    - Ing January 1, 2018 At 15:53
      
      The person responsible for sacking the person responsible has now been sacked.
    - LKB January 1, 2018 At 17:37
      
      Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti…
ActionPhysicalMan January 1, 2018 At 11:27

I don’t think police should take squirrel calls. The aren’t a free pest control service.
- Ken January 1, 2018 At 11:45
  
  Meh, it’s Brockport. What else would be happening in Brockport? I doubt the local PD was workin’ a bunch of murders, gangs running wild, and the like. And this kept them occupied with something other than running a speed trap on the road coming through town. Protect (HAR!) and “serve” don’tchaknow. Or something like that. Heck, if I had a buck for each call I ever answered in 32 years that wasn’t in the academy training, I could have retired in 25.
- RandallOfLegend January 1, 2018 At 12:00
  
  Gives them a break from speed traps and busting college parties.
- Jonathan-Houston January 1, 2018 At 12:02
  
  Forget it, Jake; it’s Brockport.
- Hannibal January 2, 2018 At 14:15
  
  There are a lot of PDs that are “full service departments” because citizens demand it. They see cops just driving around and want them to do stuff. Animal calls are a classic example. A lot of ‘full service calls’ mean that a police officer gets dispatched and has to waste gas driving to the place only to end up having no help to offer. Okay, there’s a squirrel in your house. Let’s open the doors and hope he leaves.
  
  There was once a woman near me who kept calling the police because a bird had a string around it’s foot. She thought that this required the intervention of authorities (bird was fine except for looking somewhat ridiculous). Cop would arrive, bird would fly off, cop would leave, and the whole thing would repeat the next day. God it would be amazing to be able to tell people to stop calling for stupid shit like that…
  - TX_Lawyer January 2, 2018 At 20:34
    
    If I was the cop, I would have been sorely tempted to bring my shotgun and shoot the bird.
Amfivena January 1, 2018 At 11:34

Surprised a dog didn’t get shot for some reason or another…

Otherwise agree with a poster above, not a good use of tax dollars. Hire an exterminator, don’t feed your pet cat or dog for a while, or buy your kids a pellet gun.
tsbhoa.p.jr January 1, 2018 At 11:45

it’s fun determining if they are flying squirrels. most of the ones around here fail the test.
Michael January 1, 2018 At 11:53

About as funny as when Jimmy Carter was attacked by a rabbit.
- Just Sayin January 1, 2018 At 12:27
  
  Hey, that’s not anything to be made fun of.
  Google “The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog”.
  - Ing January 1, 2018 At 15:54
    
    What’s he gonna do, nibble me bum?
GS650G January 1, 2018 At 12:47

Full on SWAT next time. Breech with flash bangs and gas.
Uh-hu January 1, 2018 At 13:08

Das Eichhörnchen!
anarchyst January 1, 2018 At 15:04

I’m surprised that they did not deploy a SWAT team so that they could have (legally) shot up and destroyed the place…
- Hannibal January 2, 2018 At 14:16
  
  Well, if you call the police because there’s a squirrel in your house I’m thinking you are basically asking for them to make some holes in your wall since you can’t figure out how to chase the rodent out a door.
Ing January 1, 2018 At 15:56

Looks like a good time was had by all. I love how everybody in the video, cops included, is laughing.
Me January 1, 2018 At 16:07

A squirrel = defensive gun use? Seriously?
- Ralph January 1, 2018 At 17:16
  
  Hey, that squirrel was nuts.
  - LKB January 1, 2018 At 17:43
    
    Well, if it’s a New York squirrel:
    
    https://goo.gl/images/JZbVSp
- Hannibal January 2, 2018 At 14:30
  
  no
John from CBus January 1, 2018 At 18:42

Isis has claimed responsibility for the rampant take off of rodent attacks verses our peace officers. In a statement to al jazeera leaders have claimed this will not just be squirrels, but we will see attacks from chipmunks, mice and other small furry woodland creatures.
- Ing January 1, 2018 At 18:52
  
  Their fortunes must really be on the decline if they’ve been reduced from lone wolf attacks to random rodents.
KeeboardKommando January 1, 2018 At 18:59

Probably shot their dog instead.
- Ralph January 1, 2018 At 19:48
  
  Hey, the dog made a furtive movement. He was licking his balls. His own balls, I mean. If he was licking the cops balls he wouldn’t have been shot.
MLee January 1, 2018 At 23:06

I shot 56 squirrels in 2017. 2018 should be even better. Tree rats, that’s all they are. Destructive rodents.
NumbNuts January 2, 2018 At 20:20

Officer down! We need back up! Call in the K-9!