Attack Squirrel Sends 2 People to ER in San Francisco

THERE’S AN ATTACK SQUIRREL THAT HAS ALREADY SENT TWO PEOPLE TO THE ER NEAR SAN FRANCISCO

Some people have some powerful feelings when it comes to squirrels. And by powerful, I’m talking negative to the degree that things can get somewhat aggressive. My grandfather was one of those, and the fate of the squirrels in his yard was only tempered by the constant intervention of my grandmother. I never quite understood his squirrel anger, as they didn’t chew up the deck or house or the like. One did break into the garage to make a nest, and a couple enterprising ones would invade the bird feeder from time to time. But that’s all it took for my grandfather’s old man ire. Yet I can only imagine what he’d do if presented with the attack squirrel that sent two people to the ER last week in San Francisco.

ATTACK SQUIRREL TORE UP ONE WOMAN’S ARM, AND ANOTHER’S LEG BADLY ENOUGH TO NEED THE ER

Yes, an attack squirrel. Because that’s the only way to label a squirrel that does just that: attack, and repeatedly. The two people who needed to go to the ER were Joan Heblack and Isabel Campoy. The two women had the temerity to walk around in the Lucas Valley neighborhood in San Rafael, separately. But the attack squirrel saw something that almost all other (non-rabid) squirrels saw: something much much larger than itself that needed to be attacked out of nowhere. Both women shared a similar experience, with the attack squirrel suddenly appearing out of nowhere and going on the offensive.

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ATTACK SQUIRREL HAS TARGETED AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE, MAYBE BECAUSE IT WANTS FOOD

Heblack was walking when the attack squirrel jumped up on her leg, clawing and biting furiously. But Campoy was walking and the attack squirrel jumped up at her face, ending up on her arm, tearing her up all bloody. But this vicious varmint has kept going after people, with at least 5 people getting it’s vicious attentions. Animal specialists believe that the squirrel was fed by people in the past, and lost their source of food which is why it is now attacking people just for walking nearby. That seems farfetched to me. But I know if my grandfather was anywhere in the vicinity, the attack squirrel’s days would be numbered (short).

And my grandmother would be blissfully ignorant.