[raybbr]

Every morning I can see a dozen on the first two streets I drive on without even searching the trees.

They've been playing daredevil with cars all around here. A lot of them are losing.

I simply cannot understand this.

[Boogieman]

“They’ve been playing daredevil with cars all around here. A lot of them are losing.

I simply cannot understand this.”

Squirrels dart back and forth in front of cars because they’ve adapted that strategy to escape predators, like an evasive maneuver. Doesn’t work so well when the predator is going 40 mph in a straight line though. Natural selection apparently hasn’t had enough time to correct for the automobile yet :)