NEW YORK (AP) — Residents of a Queens neighborhood are going by map of a squirrely threat.
Denizens of the Unique York Metropolis borough’s Rego Park neighborhood yell an aggressive squirrel has jumped on them and bitten them within the past a entire lot of weeks, WCBS-TV reported Wednesday.
Micheline Frederick pointed to a bruise on her wrist where she talked about the squirrel landed on her after which sank its tooth into her fingers and hand.
“We’re wrestling within the snow and there’s blood in each place and my fingers getting chewed and it won’t let chase,” Frederick talked about. “In the end, it gorgeous stopped and there I was a huge bloody mess.”
A teach Frederick says she took after the assault reveals a snowy pathway coated in blood.
“This was an MMA cage match! And I lost!” she added.
Two other neighbors informed WCBS the squirrel had jumped on them, apparently unprovoked.
“These squirrels are aggressively going after folk,” Vinati Singh talked about.
Town’s Division of Health informed the neighbors to rent a licensed trapper, but the dapper metal traps grasp not yet captured any squirrels, the broadcaster reported.
The reason for the squirrel — or squirrels’ — aggressive habits is just not certain. Cramped rodents admire squirrels hardly ever test obvious for rabies and are not known to grasp transmitted it to humans, in accordance with the Centers for Illness Control and Prevention.
