Crack addicted Squirrels.

[buttmunch]

SQUIRRELS are getting hooked on crack cocaine — hidden by addicts in gardens.
They are digging up the stashes and eating the mega-addictive drug, which comes in small chunks.

Several have been spotted behaving bizarrely in Brixton, South London, since a police blitz against pushers and users.

One resident said: “My neighbour said dealers had used my garden to hide crack.

“Just an hour earlier I’d seen a squirrel digging in the flower-beds.

“It was ill-looking and its eyes looked bloodshot, but it kept on desperately digging. It seems a strange thing to say, but it seemed to know what it was looking for.”



Other residents have seen squirrels become unusually aggressive.

The RSPCA said: “These animals are big foragers. They are attracted by smell and will dig up what they fancy.

“If a squirrel did open a bag of crack and start consuming it there is no doubt it would die pretty quickly.”

Crack squirrels are a recognised problem in America. They are common in parks used by addicts in New York and Washington DC.

They have been known to attack park visitors in their search for a fix.

I know I shouldn't laugh but...

[muchlove]

[muchlove]

How can a squirrels eyes look bloodshot....? lol. They have black eyes.

ETA: God, you actually had me looking into this. There's a forum called Urban75 that's been talking about this, and one of the quotes in this story is stolen right out of a thread there. Too funny! I can't figure out if this board actually started the crack-squirrel story or if it's some weird, long-running British internet joke. If you read all the way down, you can actually watch their fascination as the story starts appearing in papers.

[buttmunch]

I swiped the story from Gawker, who swiped it from the Sun.

[Tiara]

But squirrels are so small I'd of thought it would just kill them!

[UndercoverGator]

Pure urban legend, I can assure you. The only squirrels I've seen behaving strangely in DC are those that are elected officials, ha ha.

But every single time I attempt to have a small picnic lunch on the grounds of the US Capital I have to fend off small furry moochers who will stand between your feet as you sit on a park bench, upraise their arms/hands like they're begging for a bit of your sandwich until you give them something. And that something isn't crack.

[LynnieD]

Well, it's official: I've literallly heard everything.

[DisruptiveHair]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, poor squirrels.