Encounters with wildlife

Lil_G · #1 10-02-2001, 12:19 AM

Re-enactment of story told to Lil_G by his roommate:

So i decide to boil some water to make coffee while studying. After a little while I realize that oh s#%& i left the water on, i rush into the kitchen to the smell of smoke. So of course Lu's (one of our roommates) fire alarm goes, luckily she was in her room to turn it off while i opened the kitchen door and windows to circulate some fresh air.

I go back to hitting the books and hear this
shuffling sound - i look over to my desk to see this huge black squirrel sitting on my books....I was like 'ah' get out of here, the damn thing then runs into lu's room, jumps all over the place knocking her s@%! over as it tried to get through the closed window. Remarkably she's all calm and was like, is that your pet?....I'm like no get it out of here! And eventually manage to chase it into the kitchen and chase it out the door to which i realize i left my steaming pot on the wooden poorch....

And thus my anecdote ends. I figured we haven't had a thread like this and wondered if anyone had any funny or unusual stories of wildlife encounter.

damasa · #2 10-02-2001, 01:17 AM

yea..i had a squirrel jump on my head..and it was like all greazy and it like jumped off and stuff...LOL..seriously...i had a squirrel jump on my damn head..chill there for about a minute then take off...crazy sheit

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Thrillhouse · #3 10-02-2001, 01:22 AM

Lol, I have one. One time we were camping and we had two racoons go into our cabin. It took ten minutes to get them out. If I wasn't laughing so hard we could have gotten them out sooner

KSig RC · #4 10-02-2001, 01:30 AM

OK - this happened "to a friend of mine" (which of course means it was me . . . )

So some guys and ladies are heading out camping, which usually means a lot of beast light and garbage hotdogs w/out buns because my dumb ass forgot to buy them. So, of course, we tip back a few cocktails as it were, when suddenly the urge hits to take a dip in the river . . . so we gets all naked, and hit the skinny-dipping waters . . . also known as a colossally bad idea, b/c the water was about 2 degrees celsius. So, of course, drunk people - clothes + beer and lake results in the ensuing thunderstorm . . . and we have to bail for dry land before we all die. We run away, and the girls have the gall to say "Wait - turn around, we're going to change first." It's a freaking storm . . . i'm minutes from death, adn the girls don't want us to see them naked. Unreal. That's the whole damn point of skinnydipping - seeing naked people. For real . . . anyway - so they finally finish, we run out of the river, and start tossing on clothes, when "my buddy" (who happens to be exceptionally well endowed i might add - wait, that sounds really bad . . . not that i'm looking at his junk, shit i'm done, i don't know where i'm going with that) starts screaming and yelling and running around . . . with a fairly large leach attached to what some might call his "Manly Trunk". Then . . . he wants to know what to do with it, b/c he doesn't just want to "tear it off . . . ", which makes sense . . . well after limited thrashing the problem removes itself, and we run up to campsite, running right past the park ranger, who was none the wiser although 'sucking wang' jokes were flying left and right. We didn't tell the girls . . . just all sorts of inside jokes left and right.

Lil_G · #5 10-02-2001, 01:51 AM

I got another story dealing with raccons...We have a bit of a problem with them at our place. They like to gorge on our garbage and the worst time they chewed it up was my turn to take the trash out to the front. So i'm like, ahh jezz that's it i'm gonna start pouring anti-freeze all over the garbage cans to teach them a lesson, or make them go blind - whichever comes first.
But one of my chick roommates starts crying, 'noooooo that's mean' So i've figured out a way to change her mind on the subject...btw, these bastards have been chewing up our garbage every week. So i got a plan that involved somthing similar with what happened with the squirrels. When she's gone, i'm gonna open the kitchen door and lead a trail of food into her room, then lock the door after they're in there so they can rip her room apart.
I'll try to take before, during, and after pics of all this happening to post on gc. After that it's no more raccoons, or squirrels, cats, dogs, or anyother creature that tastes our "special" brand of garbage bags.

The1calledTKE · #6 10-02-2001, 12:15 PM

We had a rabbit get into the fraternity house before. We had to chase it for almost an hour til it wore out to where we could grab it and let it go outside.

valkyrie · #7 10-02-2001, 12:15 PM

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Originally posted by Lil_G
So i'm like, ahh jezz that's it i'm gonna start pouring anti-freeze all over the garbage cans to teach them a lesson, or make them go blind - whichever comes first.

So i've figured out a way to change her mind on the subject...btw, these bastards have been chewing up our garbage every week. So i got a plan that involved somthing similar with what happened with the squirrels. When she's gone, i'm gonna open the kitchen door and lead a trail of food into her room, then lock the door after they're in there so they can rip her room apart.
I'll try to take before, during, and after pics of all this happening to post on gc. After that it's no more raccoons, or squirrels, cats, dogs, or anyother creature that tastes our "special" brand of garbage bags.

I hope you're kidding. That is really terrible.

Thrillhouse · #8 10-02-2001, 12:21 PM

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Originally posted by zntke711
We had a rabbit get into the fraternity house before. We had to chase it for almost an hour til it wore out to where we could grab it and let it go outside.

did it just run around? That is funny

greeklawgirl · #9 10-02-2001, 12:40 PM

ROFLMAO, people! Be nice to the squirrels or you will incur the wrath of the Alpha Gams on this board! We love our squirrels!!!

XO_Princess · #10 10-02-2001, 12:59 PM

KSig, that was the funniest damn story I have ever read!!

SigmaChiCard · #11 10-02-2001, 01:00 PM

One of my countless experiences with the outdoors was when I was younger, camping with my father and brother. So (note: I sleep like a rock) we're camping in the Appalachian Mountains in very eastern Ky, and a black bear attacks our campsite because someone who was near-by (which I was mad they camped close to us anyway) decided to leave food sitting out. So the bear ate their food quietly , then came to our establishement and began going through our stuff, just kind-of throwing everything to the ground like coolers and what-have-you. All the while, my father and brother are awake, curious as to what is going on, I'm still sleeping.....I awake to being ripped violently from the tent by both legs in my brothers hands, dragging me from the tent, telling me we're getting attacked by a black bear. Mind you, Black Bears are not exactly funloving animals, so we get in our car, and drive off, he makes a half-hearted effort to come after the car (but didn't distrub us on our 'trip' to the car) but gave up after about 4 steps.

Later, a bat attacked the campsite next to ours, where the bat got into the tent and flew around...a particularly interesting campsite, I must say. Two weeks ago while camping, a coyote kept circling our site, but we were trashed, and when the Park Ranger stumbled upon us (we were being really loud, evidently) he scared the beast off

SigmaChiCard · #12 10-02-2001, 01:19 PM

A second crazy outdoors expereince was last year when I went to another place just here in KY called Red River Gorge Geological Area (home of a couple hundred natural bridges) with my father for some QT (quality time) and we hiked about 2 miles into the woods on a trail, then about a mile off the trail into an area with nothing there, no trails, no climbing rocks, nothing but wildlife at it's best. So we set up our campsite, hung out and what-have-you, I was explaining to him the death of my friends uncle there when he was murdered by a crazy local who then raped his wife, then blew his own brains out, right? Well that evening, around 1am, I heard 3 gun shots from a riffle at a distance I'd determine to be 75 yards. Mind you, guns and hunting are not allowed inside national parks (which this is). So I'm thinking, hey cool, 3 is the number of a nice sized family. Someone just murdered three people. Well, 15 minutes later, I hear 4 shots from what I'd say is 30-40 yards away, WHICH IS PRETTY DAMN CLOSE. So, me in all of my self-induced narcolepsy decided that the best possible solution was sleep. Either they were going to kill me, or they weren't. If I was awake, that might provoke them to kill me since I saw him. If I was asleep, I wouldn't fear/feel the bullet. I feel bad for my father though, cause he felt he had to stay up to defend me, so he stayed up all night making sure no crazy-ass locals came and murdered us. But, nothing happened, obviously, but it's so wierd, no one else was camping near us, no deaths were reported that weekend...we have no clue were the shots came from, or where they went, but damn were we scared.

and just as an incidental. If you like camping, and you like outdoors stuff like hiking, climbing, snowshoeing, skiing...if you're ever in the south-eastern portion of France, western Switzerland, or northern Italy, then you'd better make at least a two day trip to Chamonix, France. The most gorgeous place on earth, I think.

AlphaGam1019 · #13 10-02-2001, 01:24 PM

Yeah, lay off the squirrels!They are cute and acutally tough to find as figurines and collectables goes.

I brake for squirrels.

(to remind everyone, squirrels are AlphaGam's mascot)

SigmaChiCard · #14 10-02-2001, 01:31 PM

we have two albino squirels on campus that everyone tries to catch cause 'they're good luck'

Lil_G · #15 10-02-2001, 01:34 PM

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Originally posted by AlphaGam1019
Yeah, lay off the squirrels!They are cute and acutally tough to find as figurines and collectables goes.

I brake for squirrels.

(to remind everyone, squirrels are AlphaGam's mascot)

You want a figurine? It bet it wouldn't be a problem getting this one stuffed and shipped to you.