Kamikaze rabbits around here. I see anywhere between 30 to fifty of 'em on my morning commute on my way out of the neighborhood and along the mup.

I swear they must be breeding like, well like rabbits.

An epic contest between two matched intellects!

Next time, keep going straight and let the squirrel work things out.

I've had a couple of close calls with squirrels, but nothing got the blood pounding like the skunk that was eyeing me from the side of the road a while ago. He was sauntering along and never got too close but now I keep imagining that I see skunks in the darkness on the edges of the pavement when I ride in the early mornings.

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It's all part of the animal revolution. They're reclaiming the earth.

All you have to do is keep straight. Its like the squirrels think they can make it across the street before you, but then suddenly decide they can't make halfway, then turn back the opposite direction into a tree. Strange behavior if you ask me.

just be lucky it wasn't russian squirrels - Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'

3 Hurt In Squirrel Attack At SJ's Evergreen School

my estranged wife once had a stand-off with a male squirrel, apparently defending its turf or trying to dominate her. she was able to resolve the issue without deadly force.

nutty squirrels
 

My cyclocommute home Friday afternoon started off well enough. I still had the nice northerly, dry breeze from the morning. About 20 minutes in I ran over something, a bump. Then an immediate scraping sound from the front. I looked down and thought my fender had collapsed and folded under itself. I slowed aiming for grass on the side of the road, but then the bike slowed even faster with the wedging-up of something. I crunched the brake, looked down again. There was a squirrel wedged up between my fender and the top of front tire at the back of the fork crown. Stopped and after a second's wonderment, I got the front tire off as quickly as could to get the poor little bugger out. Too late, though.

I've been thinking this could happen on to me on the MUT I use, but I've envisioned the squirrel getting into the spokes and me doing an endo.

Squirrels seem to be like teenagers. I was coming down an incline into a parking lot one day years ago and there were three oblivious teenagers in front of me walking three abreast down the middle of the road. I move to the left to get around them. They panicked and ran to the left. I moved to the right to get around them. They ran to the right. I finally got past them without running over one.

My procedure now with squirrels is to stop and apologize for getting in their way, and ask them to please go first.