Gun-Toting Grandad Gets His Terrorist Squirrel
Fri Nov 8,10:01 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - A squirrel which terrorized a British town by attacking people has been shot and killed by the grandfather of its latest victim.



Geoff Horth, enraged by the squirrel biting his two-year-old grand-daughter Kelsi Morley on the face, took up his airgun and hunted down the rogue rodent, the Sun newspaper said on Friday.

"When I tracked him down I was surprised how big he was. He came down a tree and headed for me, but I shot him before he jumped," the 61-year-old school caretaker told the newspaper.

The bad-tempered squirrel's reign of terror in the town of Knutsford in central England had made parents frightened to let their children out to play.

Animal experts say it is very unusual for squirrels to behave in such an aggressive way toward humans.

Horth was philosophical about his role as gun-totting local hero. "Its a shame he went nuts, but I couldn't let this little beggar hold the town to ransom," he told the newspaper.

On in England could a squirrel do that.
Here, at least where I live, you could have shot that thing in the village square with a 4 bore cannon and no one would have cared.
Well, a squirrel that attacks somebody would probably get a story, but it wouldn't instill fear into the community, it wouldn't live long enough to bite another child.