[TLEIBY308]

I just use a 17hmr.

[Past Your Eyes]

Un-flippin believable. Luckily for me, my wife knows how to keep her mouth shut about such things.

[devere]

You can’t shoot your gun in suburban NJ, so how do you hunt squirrels? I would have fined him for failing to eat what he killed. One of my relatives has a freezer full of squirrel meat.

And if he doesn’t divorce his wife he’s an idiot.

There’s no community property in NJ, so he should do well in the financial settlement.

[Bud Krieger]

Those little buggers can definitely do some damage to a house. I have first hand experience with that. I still trap them if I see evidence they are trying to gnaw their way back into our house but release them in a wooded area 5 or so miles away.

The damage they can do is pretty incredible. I once read that a sizable amount of all house fires are believed to be started by squirrels (gnawing on wiring etc..). Don`t know if that is true but it wouldn`t suprise me.

[Soothesayer]

A squirrel has more rights than the average citizen of NJ.

[Atlas Sneezed]

There are traps designed to do just this. What is the crime?

[EGPWS]

I couldn't kill a squirrel unless my life depended on it.

It's still just an animal legally though for crying out loud!

Next it will be a crime just to eat meat.

[steveo]

Day Rats

[Past Your Eyes]

Aren’t you glad you moved to NH? Too bad we couldn’t bring Christie along, too.

[Red_Devil 232]

Hey a five gallon plastic bucket half full of water with a small piece of wood for a ramp does a good job. Just sprinkle a few sunflower seeds on the ramp and some onto the water in the bucket (they float) And bad ol’ squirrels and chipmunks think it is their private swimming pool. Just post a sign "No Lifeguard On Duty"! Heeeee Heeeeee

[ConservativeChris]

Lucky he doesn’t live in Iowa.

“Council Bluffs is the home of the rare black squirrel. It is illegal here to taunt, maim, kill, annoy or otherwise disturb a black squirrel, and there are legal penalties for those who do so”

from here:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/4098

[devere]

Lively debate here:

http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/article91999.htm

Evidently New Jersey is the only state in which this is illegal. You are supposed to “relocate” the squirrels:

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/pdf/relocation_policy.pdf

[BenLurkin]

Squirrels = tree rats.

[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.

[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]

[Lancey Howard]

A good Daisy BB rifle is more fun.