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**Rain Man** · 11-25-2011, 06:40 PM

I was in the kitchen today, and saw a squirrel out in our plum tree.

For some reason the squirrels like to gnaw on the plum tree's bark, and my wife asked if the squirrel was gnawing. I wasn't sure, but I was eating crackers and decided to throw one out there so the squirrel would have something else to gnaw.

So I open the door and wing out a cracker. Now, the plum tree is about 25 feet from our back door, so you really have to put some arm into a cracker to have any hope of it making a distance near the tree. I was aided by the fact that it was one of those denser round crackers as opposed to a saltine or club cracker, so I went sidearm and winged it like frisbee.

This thing catches the wind, arcs out and then peels back toward the tree. The plum tree is one of those trees that has a lot of dense branches and twigs and stuff, and this thing stays airborne, zips through the branches ... and nails the squirrel right in the shoulder blade. He never knew what hit him.

What are the odds of that? I try to be a good squirrel neighbor, and then I go and nail one with a cracker from 25 feet away. No one's ever going to believe it was an accident, and now I'm going to be having nuts dropped on me every time I go outside.

craneref · 10-12-2012, 11:40 PM

Reminds me of the time I threw a squirrel and hit a non-suspecting ritz cracker!

**KcMizzou** · 10-12-2012, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by craneref

Reminds me of the time I threw a squirrel and hit a non-suspecting ritz cracker!

Meh, who hasn't done that?

craneref · 10-12-2012, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by KcMizzou

Meh, who hasn't done that?

True, that is why I didn't bring it up before!

**LoneWolf** · 10-13-2012, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Bump

lol the turkeys ran off, even though my friends said "ok" after I said "$20 says I hit a turkey", they felt it wasn't a real bet and never paid. Bastards.

Sounds like your friends all work in upper management at big corporations. They only care about themselves and making money. What assholes.

11-25-2011, 06:40 PM
Rain Man NFL's #1 Ermines Fan Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $3298491 VARSITY	Sixteen years of human-squirrel diplomacy ... gone in an instant. I was in the kitchen today, and saw a squirrel out in our plum tree. For some reason the squirrels like to gnaw on the plum tree's bark, and my wife asked if the squirrel was gnawing. I wasn't sure, but I was eating crackers and decided to throw one out there so the squirrel would have something else to gnaw. So I open the door and wing out a cracker. Now, the plum tree is about 25 feet from our back door, so you really have to put some arm into a cracker to have any hope of it making a distance near the tree. I was aided by the fact that it was one of those denser round crackers as opposed to a saltine or club cracker, so I went sidearm and winged it like frisbee. This thing catches the wind, arcs out and then peels back toward the tree. The plum tree is one of those trees that has a lot of dense branches and twigs and stuff, and this thing stays airborne, zips through the branches ... and nails the squirrel right in the shoulder blade. He never knew what hit him. What are the odds of that? I try to be a good squirrel neighbor, and then I go and nail one with a cracker from 25 feet away. No one's ever going to believe it was an accident, and now I'm going to be having nuts dropped on me every time I go outside.
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