I had a weird sort of horror-movie moment this morning on my way to work. I got in around 6:45am, parked over by the architecture building, and walked across that part of campus over to Library West. It was eerily quiet and empty during my short hike up the hill. Once I got to the Plaza d’Americas, I cut across the grass through a small stand of trees. As I neared the stand, about four or five squirrels raised alarm and all started barking at the same time. When I walked underneath, they simultaneously started shaking the branches and suddenly, millions of acorns rained down upon me!! Ow! Dammit! Ow! Seriously- I’m not making this up- I think they were out to get me. I looked up in time to see one of the squirrels pluck an acorn from his branch and throw it at me- hitting me on the forehead! Spooked, I kept walking and didn’t look back, hearing their chatter slowly fade as I hurried away. I certainly wasn’t going to stick around to see if they were of the flesh-eating sort. *shudder*
November 16th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 16th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
WTF is going on?! Terrorist rodents! It’s scary to think that if all the squirrels on campus planned an attack on the humans, they could totally take us down. Just watch your back. That’s all I’m saying.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Hummmm-Squirrels from Hell? They could have been harbingers of the Spaghetti Monster. Anyway, you shouldn’t be cutting thru the trees that early in the morning anyway. Ever heard of Ted Bundy??
November 17th, 2007 at 11:53 am
haha,no worries- Plaza of the Americas is a pretty wide-open field: http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=113836603&size=o
not too many places to hide unless you’re a bunch of rogue were-squirrels with a taste for human blood (thank god they weren’t able to knock me unconscious!)
Plus with the recent time change it’s pretty light out at 6:45am AND Ted Bundy got the chair many years ago so I don’t really have to worry about him either. ;)
Harbinger of the second coming of the FSM? I don’t know… I’d heard he FSM wasn’t a vengeful god so if that was the case, they should have been throwing daisies at me. I’ll have to look that up.
You know though, the more I think about it, they were probably a DARPA sponsored project that went all sorts of wrong and they’d recently escaped from a campus lab. :O
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:37 am
Okay, so I’m way late on commenting on this, but I’m wondering if there isn’t a correlation between college campuses and crazy-ass squirrels. At ASC, the squirrels would do just about everything possible to terrorize you – I say “just about” because the only thing they never did was actually physically touch you. Anything else was fair game.
That’s when I started using the word “squirrelly”.