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Save Squirrels From Electrocution, Then Eat Them for Dinner

December 07, 2007 05:14 PM ET | Alison Go | Permanent Link | Print

Suicidal squirrels have caused four power outages in two months all over the University of Kentucky campus, and the school will spend $100,000 on equipment to stop it from happening again, the Kentucky Kernel reports.

What may be a cheaper idea, however, is to sic these squirrel hunters on the varmints. "You all hit them with cars, we hit them with guns."

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