Suicide bomber squirrel hospitalizes Chicago politician who spoke out against squirrels
Howard Brookins Jr., the alderman for Chicago’s 21st ward, had publicly spoken out about a toothy menace plaguing the city’s garbage carts: urban squirrels, which in Brookins’s view were “aggressive,” and aggressively damaging the trash cart lids.
He now has another reason to dislike the rodents. One recently sent him to the hospital with a skull fracture in a “freak bicycle accident,” as the alderman wrote on Facebook.
Brookins was biking along Cal-Sag Trail on Nov. 13, when a squirrel darted into his path. The squirrel cut Brookins’s bike trip short by wrapping itself in the spokes of the alderman’s bicycle. The alderman flipped over the handlebars and landed with such a severe impact that he fractured his skull, broke his nose and knocked out a handful of teeth, the Chicago Tribune reported. A woman who passed by called 911. Brookins was only able to leave the hospital Thursday.
“I can think of no other reason for this squirrel’s actions than that it was like a suicide bomber, getting revenge,” the alderman said to the Tribune on Monday. He told the newspaper a full recovery was expected to take months.
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When squirrels go bad...
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was killed, but everyone is focused on the anti-squirrel alderman's injuries. The whole thing is the alderman's fault. He's the one who biked into the path of the squirrel. If he had been walking or running, the squirrel would be alive today.
(I love squirrels.)
When visiting Chicago a couple years ago, we turned into a parking lot to look at directions -- happened to be an IHOP -- and saw this squirrel getting in the way of a couple women going to their car. We commented on how aggressive it was, and I was saying I bet it knows people are leaving with yummy leftovers and if he acts aggressive enough, they'll drop their goodies to get rid of him. It looked like he had done that before and knew the drill.
Next thing we knew the squirrel was on top of our car on the drivers side. I took a blurry picture of it running along the bottom of the windshield and then it perched on the sideview mirror on the passenger side and started staring us down in the car when I got a real good picture of it, lol. It was hilarious. If I can find that pic and post it, you should see the look on his/her face. That little guy was guarding the IHOP parking lot like a junkyard dog! 
Sorry to hear about this person's injuries, and I have to say it was only funny because we were safe in the car. Otherwise, what do you do with an aggressive squirrel.
He could have caused a lot more damage.
