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I booped a squirrel (i.imgur.com)
submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by yucandu@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
 

No squirrels were harmed and I worshed my hands after.

EDIT: Also I feed the squirrels, we're chill, that's why this one was so comfortable having his back turned to the gate. He just got a little too greedy.

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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 7 points 15 hours ago

Upvoting for worshed.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

This is so shaky I thought it was filmed on a Handicam.

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

boop

There, I booped you right back. Haha!

Username checks out

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's probably time to increase your cinemet dose or consider video stabilization. This video should come with zofran.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I have tremors. I am seeing a rheumatologist in March. I'm on 2000mg of gabapentin for nerve pain and it doesn't touch the tremors at all, but they say it should.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

Hope that improves! In the meantime consider Deshaker

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 11 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

The squirrels on campus back in the day were so used to people. We'd go with a bag of peanuts and they would all come running. Some would sneak in and steal them out of the bag, others would eat them out of your hand, a couple would go wherever you led them, including on top of my head or in the palm of my outstretched hand. And then sit there and eat the peanuts.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago

We had some that were like that and some that were mean AF. Some would hide in bushes and leap out and attack you when you were walking by.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

I did that with the chipmunks but they started trying to drag away my fingers like it was a really heavy peanut. And they bite hard.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

It certainly wasn't THAT level of engagement, but when I was in college the students had to be told not to feed the on-campus alligators.

[–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You did what with your hand?

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LOLseas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

I read this in an Roy D. Mercer voice. Look up his US Navy Recruiter prank call on Yewtu.be it's hilarious.

[–] zout@fedia.io 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Don't these give you the plague or something?

[–] WarTowel@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Yeah that squirrel should be more careful

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They can be rabid, but they'd have to bite you to transmit that.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

As a trained squirrel handler, while it's not impossible for a squirrel to get rabies, there is probably a single digit number of them out there at any given moment.

At least in the US, no one has ever gotten rabies from a squirrel.

Your rabies prone species are bats, coyotes, fox, groundhogs, raccoons, and skunks.

That said, it's unadvisable to touch any wild animals. (Though I'd still boop that squirrel.)