View from the North 40: A world of strange correlations for man and beasts
Last updated 1/22/2021 at 10:28am
Because I think being up-to-date in the news also means reading the “Odd News” articles, I occasionally get a sense that human and animals lead parallel lives, or maybe we are influenced by the same forces in the universe. I don’t know, but the correlations seem uncanny sometimes. Humans have been increasingly aggressive and recently erupted into serious attacks, with bloodshed, at the Capitol building, the political home of our national lawmakers. Well, get this, people in a neighborhood in Queens, New York, have been attacked outside their homes by a very aggressive squirrel. I kn.
Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 02.32 EST
New York City is not known for hair-raising animal experiences â save for the odd pizza-loving rat â but one city neighborhood is being subjected to an unwelcome slice of the wild by being terrorized by a highly aggressive squirrel.
At least three people in Rego Park, in the borough of Queens, have been jumped upon and bitten by the possibly deranged squirrel in recent weeks. The tree-based rodentâs reign of terror has made some people in the area afraid to go outside without being armed with pepper spray or other anti-squirrel weaponry.
âA few people are quite scared,â Micheline Frederick, a local resident, told Guardian US. Frederick was herself targeted by the squirrel in a bloody attack on 21 December, when she was holding her front door open for furniture movers.
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