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Meta4 · 12-20-2005, 04:14 PM

Sometime yesterday evening, my house was broken into. I was able to apprehend the intruder this afternoon.

Alright, so maybe it isn't your stereotypical breaking and entering, but he still put up one heck of a fight.

The old wood stove in the picture is located in my basement, and hasn't been used since I moved in three years ago. It connects to a full brick chimney outside. Apparently, Mr. Squirrel got a little too curious and fell down the chimney into the wooden stove. That must've been quite a fall!

He got stuck in a bend in the stove pipe last night, and I had no way to get to him. He created one heck of a racket, and I thought someone had broken into my basement until I located the source of the noise.

He must've made it the rest of the way down the stovepipe into the stove itself sometime last night, and I was able to get him into a bucket.

He is now safely outside once again, doing whatever squirrels do when it's 8 degrees and snowing. Now I'll have to make an expedition onto my roof to figure out what happened to the mesh covering on the chimney...

-James

jetsiphon · 12-20-2005, 04:22 PM

Oh man I hate squirrels, I swear they all want me dead. I've had them run up my legs and fight me for food. They just don't like me

ichy_trigger · 12-20-2005, 04:27 PM

My wife thought that was really cute!

nogoa · 12-20-2005, 05:45 PM

If that is a five gallon bucket, that squirrel should be jerkey by now!

Gem1n1 · 12-20-2005, 06:07 PM

Ha Meta!

I had/still ma have a critter in my crawl space. Put 2 glue traps up there and the sneaky devil got out of both of them. I think the poison pellets got him though...as I haven't heard from it in awhile

**einheit 13** · 12-20-2005, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jetsiphon

Oh man I hate squirrels, I swear they all want me dead. I've had them run up my legs and fight me for food. They just don't like me

JHA XD40 · 12-20-2005, 07:35 PM

Month or so ago we had a couple squirrels on our roof that fell down the vent pipe for the septic tank. Ended up dying and clogging up the pipe. Made a hell of a mess in the basement. Count yourself lucky for yours just falling down into the wood burning stove...

jonas

jetsiphon · 12-20-2005, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by einheit 13

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Originally Posted by jetsiphon

Oh man I hate squirrels, I swear they all want me dead. I've had them run up my legs and fight me for food. They just don't like me

I'm tellin' ya, it's almost as bad as me and lobsters. We had a business meeting at Morton's and they brought the fresh lobster to the table. That bastard lunged at me too. I thought I was going to have to take him down with a steak knive. Just shove it in that abyss of a face it had.

**R Dub** · 12-20-2005, 08:11 PM

I love 'em, cooked tender with dumplings and gravy!

A_Ninja_Racer · 12-20-2005, 08:12 PM

I used to have a pet squirl when I was a kid. that thing was awsome.

12-20-2005, 04:14 PM	#1
Meta4 XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Southern Michigan Posts: 555	Home Intruder Sometime yesterday evening, my house was broken into. I was able to apprehend the intruder this afternoon. Alright, so maybe it isn't your stereotypical breaking and entering, but he still put up one heck of a fight. The old wood stove in the picture is located in my basement, and hasn't been used since I moved in three years ago. It connects to a full brick chimney outside. Apparently, Mr. Squirrel got a little too curious and fell down the chimney into the wooden stove. That must've been quite a fall! He got stuck in a bend in the stove pipe last night, and I had no way to get to him. He created one heck of a racket, and I thought someone had broken into my basement until I located the source of the noise. He must've made it the rest of the way down the stovepipe into the stove itself sometime last night, and I was able to get him into a bucket. He is now safely outside once again, doing whatever squirrels do when it's 8 degrees and snowing. Now I'll have to make an expedition onto my roof to figure out what happened to the mesh covering on the chimney... -James

12-20-2005, 04:22 PM	#2
jetsiphon XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Aurora, CO Posts: 1,192	Oh man I hate squirrels, I swear they all want me dead. I've had them run up my legs and fight me for food. They just don't like me __________________ XD9 Service Black - XD45 Service Dark Earth 1945 Sistema 1911 - Para Ordnance LTC Steyr M9A1 - Glock 17

12-20-2005, 04:27 PM	#3
ichy_trigger XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Dayton, Ohio Posts: 8,016	My wife thought that was really cute! __________________ "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." http://militarysignatures.com/signatures/member2645.png

12-20-2005, 05:45 PM	#4
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12-20-2005, 07:35 PM	#7
JHA XD40 XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Central Alabama Posts: 478	Month or so ago we had a couple squirrels on our roof that fell down the vent pipe for the septic tank. Ended up dying and clogging up the pipe. Made a hell of a mess in the basement. Count yourself lucky for yours just falling down into the wood burning stove... jonas __________________ "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." --Dr. Johnson

12-20-2005, 06:07 PM	#5
Gem1n1 XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 114	Ha Meta! I had/still ma have a critter in my crawl space. Put 2 glue traps up there and the sneaky devil got out of both of them. I think the poison pellets got him though...as I haven't heard from it in awhile

12-20-2005, 08:11 PM	#9
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12-20-2005, 08:12 PM	#10
A_Ninja_Racer XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tampa Posts: 105	I used to have a pet squirl when I was a kid. that thing was awsome. __________________ XD40 Sub Compact

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