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Liz Spots Dragged Dead Squirrel

Posted by DFO

March 26, 2009 2:03 p.m. • 21 comments

Liz: Get ready for this: around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, I was heading down Poplar to pick up my son at school. As I waited at the intersection of Poplar and Fourth, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Here is what I saw — a car making the turn in front of me, and attached to it’s bumper was a rope. Attached to the end of the rope that wasn’t attached to the car was, um, a DEAD SQUIRREL!!!! I could see its horrible little teeth and everything. It was rather bloody, as well. I am seriously hoping that the thing was dead when it was tied onto the bumper. Because if it wasn’t, it would mean that some sick-o dragged a small animal around to its death deliberately (or someone else tied it on there still alive and he didn’t notice it; just as bad). Hopefully someone just thought it would be funny to tie some already dead roadkill onto the car. That would be the best case scenario.

Question: If Liz is right, and the squirrel was dead before it was tied to the back of the car, what do you make of this strange incident?

21 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Kibby on March 26 at 2:09 p.m.
Just another sad example of an Ida-billy. What a idiot.
Kibby on March 26 at 2:10 p.m.
…what AN idiot
JeanieSpokane on March 26 at 2:28 p.m.
Dead or alive - it’s nasty and revolting. So, if children who harm and kill cats grow up to be abusers, do squirrel-on-a-rope idiots grow up to be those drive by, hit and run, drag the body for a mile and leave the scene killers?
Charlie on March 26 at 2:34 p.m.
A sick individual who needs help, his melon may be leaking.
OfCoffee on March 26 at 3:07 p.m.
Actually, it’s a common prank. Some of my confirmed bachelor buddies in high school tied 3 dead ducks to the back of my car at my senior prom. As my date and I left the dance, the boys followed us, flashing theirlights, etc. Laughing all the way.

When I pulled over to say hello, they couldn’t help but to tell me. I thought it was ‘not that funny’ but they were really tickled with themselves.
Frum Helen Back on March 26 at 4:33 p.m.
I have better words than “sick-o” to discribed the less than human being who should have been aborted.
Liz on March 26 at 5:06 p.m.
Yeah, if I had taken a pic, I had plans to take it over to one of the abnormal psych. profs that my husband took a class from over at NIC and let him take a gander at it…
Me on March 26 at 6:17 p.m.
Last summer we were in Glacier and stopped at one of the turnouts. As we are walking past the other cars that are stopped we spot a giant bird stuck in the grille of a car. It had to be a pheasant. 1/2 of its guts were hanging out - a real site. We thought “ok they didn’t see it, but they will now”. We kept running into that car at various places throughout the park and always the mangled bird was still there. It became a joke to us, and I probably took a pic of it - I’ll have to go see if I can find it now. But what were they thinking once they discovered it there and didn’t do anything about it? Or maybe they just didn’t know what to do? What would one do? This was not a little sparrow or something.
cantyoureadthesigns on March 26 at 7:39 p.m.
Well there aren’t any powerwashers on Going to the Sun Road, so what are ya gonna do? No choice but to (eventually) drive down to Columbia Falls and squirt that grill kill off. Or you could clean and then cook that pheasant under the hood, and have a savory lunchtime snack, tastes like Cornish Hen, I hear.

Save the carcass and fat for Pheasant Stock.

http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Food-on-Your-Car%27s-Engine
Stickman on March 26 at 8:22 p.m.
Anything done to animals in the sense of fun is sick. We are all here together, no matter what your thoughts.
Stickman on March 26 at 9:34 p.m.
I meant to say anything done to dead animals for the sake of fun is sick. Of course we have fun with our animals, we better. My dog Charlie and my cat Rose are like my children, we should always treat them as such. Otherwise, don’t have them.

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