On my way home last night, residential side street, a cop car passed me and then ran over a squirrel that had darted across the road. Cop didn't stop. I stopped and saw that the squirrel was still conscious but immobile - no blood or guts but his limbs weren't moving. His eyes were lucid and his mouth was quivering. It was mildly disturbing and the memory of seeing him there stays with me.

I figured somebody else would run over him and that would be that but I didn't wait. Talked myself out of running him over with my bike.

Assuming the cop knew he'd hit the squirrel, think he should've stopped and run over him again or something?

Saw the squirrel again this morning - a flattened carcass like dozens of others I see every week.

Life is short and precious.