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Outrage After Officer Pepper Sprays Baby Squirrel
myfoxny.com ^ | Friday, 08 Apr 2011 | NEWSCORE

Posted on 04/08/2011 6:13:36 PM PDT by fuzzybutt

MESQUITE, Texas - A YouTube video of a police officer using pepper spray on a baby squirrel has sparked outrage in the city of Mesquite, Tx.

A student recorded the incident. In the video, the officer is seen spraying the animal after it began chasing students around at Kimbrough Middle School.

Students are heard begging the cop, reffered to as Officer Davis on the video, to stop with cries of "No!" and "Don't spray him!"

Mesquite Police Department has defended the officer's actions.

Sgt. Wes Talley said the officer stood between a group of students and the animal because he thought it may have been rabid.

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To: fuzzybutt

Another SWAT team leader in training!


41 posted on 04/08/2011 6:39:38 PM PDT by mongo141
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Why are you “pretty sure that there has never been a case of rabies transmitted to a human from a squirrel”? Do you documentation?


42 posted on 04/08/2011 6:40:37 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: org.whodat
Well, we can't all have such an intimate understanding of squirrels as you.
43 posted on 04/08/2011 6:40:51 PM PDT by Celtic Cross (Some minds are like cement; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: Slump Tester; KingLudd
A “squirrel rehabilitator”? Did you find that in the yellow pages?

Supplying fine restaurants in your area.

Saving a Squirrel by Eating One

If you like hot peppers I recommend the Sichuan Squirrel. ;^)

44 posted on 04/08/2011 6:41:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Wrong. All professions have a few bad apples. ALL of them. I could post a dozen stories every day of soldiers from the various United States Armed forces who commit criminal acts. That doesn’t make the vast majority of them any less brave, patriotic, or honorable. What you and others of your ilk do, is simply take the communist/media playbook, and play the “drip, drip, drip” game to paint an entire profession with a broad brush, all because of a petty little vindictive agenda.

The fact that you hide behind a keyboard to do it speaks volumes about your character.


45 posted on 04/08/2011 6:42:11 PM PDT by freedomwarrior998
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To: IMR 4350

When I was a kid I loved squirrel and rabbit gravy.


46 posted on 04/08/2011 6:43:56 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: org.whodat

I’m sure you can leap buildings in a single bound as well, right? This is the internet after all.

I frankly don’t believe that you’ve killed anything. Even if you have, it doesn’t change the reality of my earlier post.


47 posted on 04/08/2011 6:45:47 PM PDT by freedomwarrior998
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To: freedomwarrior998
(picture a squirrel instead of ant)
48 posted on 04/08/2011 6:47:20 PM PDT by ZinGirl
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To: Flying right
Does pepper spray taste at all spicy??

Pepper spray is pepper. In Vermont I talked to a gun shop owner who was a former police officer and a current firearms instructor. He told us he always took a burrito to his class on using pepper spray and sprayed it then ate it in front of the class.

49 posted on 04/08/2011 6:48:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: fuzzybutt; camle; Alkhin; Professional Engineer; katana; Mr. Silverback; MadIvan; agrarianlady; ...
Mr Flibble is very cross

Ping!

50 posted on 04/08/2011 6:48:06 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 806 of our national holiday from reality. - That 3 AM phone call? Voicemail...)
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To: TigersEye

Looks tastey.


51 posted on 04/08/2011 6:48:10 PM PDT by Celtic Cross (Some minds are like cement; thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Even if what you are saying is true... (if they were going 10-15 MPH over speed limit and faster than the rest of the traffic, how were YOU able to stay with them?) how do you KNOW for a fact that they weren’t going to a mutual aid call the other jurisdiction? Frankly, you don’t know what they were up to, you just assumed... if it happened at all that is.


52 posted on 04/08/2011 6:48:52 PM PDT by freedomwarrior998
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To: Celtic Cross
Grew up on a farm, dad gave me my first 410 when I was 9, squirrel and rabbit hunting was the game. Had a rabit gray fox try to bite the horse I was riding once, could not believe it, the old man killed the fox with a rock.
53 posted on 04/08/2011 6:50:26 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: freedomwarrior998
Wrong. All professions have a few bad apples.<\I>

that's the problem with your argument, the few bad apples argument no longer works. The number of bad apples has exceeded the acceptable bushel basket ratio... The law enforcement profession has more than it's share of bad apples.

If I posted every single story I found each day about a cop arrested for a crime or one suspended for serious misconduct it would crash the Free Republic servers...

54 posted on 04/08/2011 6:51:45 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: freedomwarrior998

Let me guess, mall cop, are security cop?????


55 posted on 04/08/2011 6:54:09 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: fuzzybutt

Hey, that squirrel was making a jump for his nuts and it was self defense.


56 posted on 04/08/2011 6:55:08 PM PDT by RickB444 (Worry about and distrust anyone who fears a lawful person owning a gun.)
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To: org.whodat

Like squirrel and I like rabbit.

Now we’ll both probably catch holy hell for daring to say we eat cute furry animals.


57 posted on 04/08/2011 6:55:22 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: fuzzybutt

I personally don’t like it when any sentient being is harmed in any way - but I’m not totally sure what was happening with this little animal. That being said, what I do know is that recently the police do not have a great track record with pets/animals.


58 posted on 04/08/2011 6:57:14 PM PDT by khnyny (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: freedomwarrior998
"Internet warrior"

Um, this is the internet. More cop logic.

Too bad this isn't real life where you could stir my ass for being impertinent, huh?


59 posted on 04/08/2011 7:00:21 PM PDT by I see my hands (Embrace misanthropy)
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To: IMR 4350

Ate some ground hog once, it is a little on the greasy side. But rabbit and squirrels are really good stuff.


60 posted on 04/08/2011 7:01:06 PM PDT by org.whodat
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