Freehold Attorney Fined $2,500 for Trapping, Drowning Squirrels (Wife Turned Him In)

NOVEMBER 19, 2010 | Charles Webster

[nickcarraway]

Freehold Attorney Fined $2,500 for Trapping, Drowning Squirrels

[BenLurkin]

Squirrels = tree rats.

[rcofdayton]

If I were him, she would VERY soon be my ex-wife.

[IrishCatholic]

I trapped a whole family of fluffy eared squirrels and had them in a cage in the back seat of my car when I was pulled over for speeding.

The officer saw the full cage of squirrels and told me to take them to the zoo.

The next day I was out and the same officer pulled me over. I wasn't speeding this time, he saw the cage still in the backseat. He comes walking up to the car and sees the full cage of squirrels and gets all mad.

“Hey! I thought I told you to take those squirrels to the zoo!”

“I did,” I replied. “Today we are going to the museum.”

Rimshot.

(Copyright infringement and plagiarism alert. The original joke had penguins in it.)

[HP8753]

Gamo Shadow 1000 >>.177 cal air rifle w/8 grain pellet at 1000ft/sec.

Remington 510 >>>.22 rimfire bolt action single shot with CCI CB Caps w/ 29 grain bullet at 725 ft/sec

Both work great on squirrels in urban settings.

The .22 w/ CB caps is actually quieter than the pellet gun and has more energy.

Bait them at the base of a tree so that you have a nice safe back stop.

[Cementjungle]

My cat caught (and mostly ate) a chipmunk yesterday... I hope he’s not going to be charged.

[andyk]

You might appreciate this thread on Boise Shooters.

[Free in Texas]

I had an odd squirrel problem. In my front yard beneath the large shadetree I started noticing strips of woodbark about 1/2"x3" scattered about on the ground. One day a wood strip hit me on the head as I was working under the tree and I saw the culprit in action. It was a large squirrel hard at work debarking a limb.

Well, I saw red, went and got a scoped .22 and promptly shot the tree-hater off of his perch. He bounced from limb to limb on his way down and hit ground. It was then that I noticed my neighbor's kids yelling and pointing with wide-eyed looks of disbelief on their faces. I live on a rural county road so nothing was ever said about the squirrel's untimely demise. But I never knew that squirrels were bark strippers.

[Conservative Tsunami]

(Wife Turned Him In)

I'm going to go out on a limb and say she's a Rachel Maddow Groupie.

[Daffynition]

[null and void]

And you might apprciate this...

[andyk]

Hehe, I enjoyed that. Thanks.

[Lancey Howard]

A good Daisy BB rifle is more fun.

[4yearlurker]

I trap and drown chipmunks. The cute little rodents are everywhere! They can destroy a vegetable garden in a few days. They ate all the plums off my little tree. They ate all my mulberries too. So I get rid of them. God will make more.

[ApplegateRanch]

5 miles isn’t nearly enough; see the links below.

I’m blessed with a home remote enough from neighbors, and with laws permitting, to shoot the beggers. A .22LR hollow point or .22 short or .22 snakeshot, depending on where they are, is quick and efficient, without doing any damage. Unfortunately, these are not a particularly edible squirrel, though the cats don’t object to an occasional treat.

http://unexco.com/popups/release.html

http://squirrelsinattic.com/#squirrelsinattichomingbehavior

[grady]

You think that’s bad...try this one on for size.

http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/15/brian-aitkens-mistake

Christie’s been talking a good game with the teachers’ unions, and he killed the over-budget NY tunnel project, but he hasn’t really shown that he’s willing to implement anything. Plus, he’s a gun-grabber, pro cap & trade, and has refused to address NJ’s big problem of fleecing suburban taxpayers to pay for urban school districts. But, as one commentator in NJ put it, the longer he keeps pretending to be a conservative, the better it is for NJ. Near as I can tell, he’s a skilled politician who knows how to say what the mood of the day calls for.