– This is crazy! A moment when Louisiana’s sheriff’s deputies were attacked by a furious pet squirrel after pulling the pet’s owner to stop traffic
- Deputy Sheriff’s Office Deputy Livingston Attacked by Authorities Call “Domestic Wild Squirrel” Monday Night
- Officials said he and his partner stopped traffic east of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when they went to arrest a tugboat driver.
- When they searched the man’s car, the squirrel jumped on the back of one of the deputies.
- His partner can be seen in a video recorded from the sheriff’s car trying to hit the animal while he was moving on the man’s body.
- In the end, they managed to control the squirrel, and no one, not even the squirrel, was injured
Two police officers were caught unprepared when they were attacked by a pet squirrel while trying to arrest its owner on Monday.
According to the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office, two deputies were finishing a stop east of Baton Rouge. Louisiana Monday night when they went to arrest an unidentified truck driver.
But when they searched the vehicle, a “domestic domestic squirrel” jumped on the back of one of the deputies, according to the sheriff’s office. Facebook.
As he ran in a circle trying to get the squirrel off his back, jumping and grabbing the rodent, his partner could be seen in a video taken from the sheriff’s car trying to hit the animal, but he moved to different parts of the body. to the man as he tries to escape.
In the end, the deputies managed to return the rodent back to its cage, without anyone – even the squirrel – being injured, the sheriff’s office said.
When the traffic stopped on Monday night, a “domestic wild squirrel” jumped on the back of one of the deputies.
The deputy was seen in a video from the sheriff’s car twisting to take down the squirrel while his partner tried to hit her.
In the end, lawmakers had to return the rodent to its cage without injuring anyone – not even the squirrel.
But that hasn’t stopped people from making fun of lawmakers online after the video was shared 340 times.
Amanda Courtney-Snail wrote, “You’d think that once they fight enough drug addicts in LP, they’ll be prepared for a wild squirrel,” and Donald Martin wrote, “The squirrel moved on the back of this MP’s shirt.”
“The little one was running all over his back,” Martin said. “The squirrel must have made the deputy look like a charlatan.”
Billy Ward also asked if the deputy’s convulsions were a “new training technique,” and Christopher Brown joked, “This deputy was a little cracked up.”
Zachary Marabel, meanwhile, asked, “Who breeds an attacking squirrel?” This is methamphetamine!
And Stephen Castella joked: “He was arrested for appearing behind the wheel? This squirrel is definitely on the trail of all of you, “while Andrea Saya Mistrick simply wrote,” This is crazy! “
Details of the search and arrest of the car were not reported.
DailyMail.com contacted the sheriff’s office for more information.
Many on Facebook mocked the deputies’ account after watching the video
The incident comes more than two years after an Alabama man accused of giving methamphetamine to what authorities called his “attack squirrel” was charged with state crime against wildlife.
Mickey Joel Polk has been charged with one count of illegal possession of wildlife, according to court records at the time.
He was arrested in June 2019 on multiple warrants for serious crimes unrelated to Deez Nutz, his squirrel, who became infamous after police said he was warned about a methane-powered squirrel who had been trained to attack .
Polk did not deny that he had a pet squirrel, which is illegal under state law. But he denied police allegations that he fed methamphetamine to the squirrel to make it aggressive.
Prior to his arrest, he said he was working on a plan to surrender to authorities.
The squirrel was eventually released into the wild by animal control officers.
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