Let’s eat ‘em
As some of you heard, there was a power outage on campus last weekend. The cause was a mystery, until now.
Squirrels got their revenge for birth control measures to reduce their population at Clemson University when one of the critters pulled the plug on the campus Sunday.
A campus wide power outage occurred shortly after 10 a.m. when a squirrel crossed power lines at the main campus substation, campus officials said.
I doubt that squirrel survived his excellent adventure. But the last two paragraphs make me wonder.
Clemson University graduate students are testing contraceptives to try to control the gray squirrel population because of damage to trees and shrubs – a problem also afflicting homeowners in places like Greenville’s Cleveland Park with a high squirrel population.
The Clemson campus, where there are few predators to control the squirrel population, has an estimated 12 squirrels per acre.
Let’s be honest, the campus is filled with thousands of predators. They’re called students. With a few traps and some BB guns in the hands of some good ol’ boys, I’m pretty sure this problem can be controlled at a yearly cost of 4 cases of Busch beer.
When a university resorts to paying grad students to hand out free condoms to squirrels, it’s not really surprising that the football team has a tendency to play soft.
you think this is a joke. But all of this is real. Completely real. The grad students for some Ag classes do make nut clusters (hahaha) with BC pills put in them. And its hilarious. Because that just means the squirrels try to mate harder. But this campus was extremely errie on Sunday when there was no lights on, making this place look like a ghost town with trash everywhere (shit left over from the tailgaters)
I know the problem is real, and the solutions are real funny.
I can understand that there is likely a market for a non-fatal squirrel population reduction product; but until that product is fully developed, there are definitely ways to kill the damn things.
PS – I promise to no longer try to avoid squirrels while driving. From now on I will regard squirrel-death-by-car as a positive thing.
I take it that y’all are not members of the “Clemson Squirrels…Best in the World” facebook group…
I remember when a racoon got into one of the power stations Thursday night before the first Bowden Bowl…….that was a crazy ass night. Bonfires everywhere and pregame festivities started early