KFI: An Atlanta family is livid after their insurance refused to cover over $150,000 of damage to their home caused by a squirrel. Kari and Dustin Drees moved into their house last month but spent Christmas in California.
When they returned home from vacation, they were shocked to find the inside of the house had been destroyed.
“When I opened the door, I saw a ton of wood chips on the ground, so I initially thought someone had broken in and had broken through the door,” Dustin told NBC News. “We initially thought we had been robbed, but then we started looking around. The TV was still there. A gift card that was left out was still there. Nothing was taken. Maybe someone had broken in, and our stuff wasn’t interesting to them?”
Instead, they found their home in shambles. The baseboards and window frames were chewed up, the floors were covered in scratches, the kitchen sink was running, and their brand new sofa was turned into a nest by the squirrel. As they were inspecting the damage, the animal jumped out of the couch and tried to escape through their fireplace. read more
If a squirrel can cause $250K in damages, imagine what Sen Chris Coons has been doing!
Rats with fluffy tails.
That is not $150,000 worth of damage.
$40,000 Max
Good thing the little rascal didn’t invite Bullwinkle over too.
This is just plain nuts. we had a squirrel get into my house a year or so ago. I was wondering what my cat was up to closely watching something under the couch and then a squirrel exploded out from under the couch followed by the cat chasing it and my dog chasing the cat. It was quite hilarious and fortunately we were able to get the squirrel out by opening the back door for it to escape. Racoons would’ve been far worse and we have a few of those around here on occasion. The squirrels use my roof as a squirrel highway during the Summer from the trees on the East side of my house to the big maple tree on the West side, my daughter can hear them scurrying across the roof from her upstairs bedroom.
Pellet gun. Dam critters eat my pecans.
This is exactly what a Magic Black Squirrel did to America….
Tree rat. Had one get into my basement somehow. Luckily heard it running back and forth along the ductwork before any damage was done. Released him back into the wild… head first into the bottom of a garbage dumpster.
So … a yard-rat can do $150,000 worth of damage to a home, but millions of rat-people are GOOD for America?
izlamo delenda est …
Avoid that insurance company. They’re mercurial.
They chewed the lead collar around the top of our bathroom and kitchen roof vents.
Must have been the squirrel from “Christmas Vacation”
I trap em, then dispose of them
Build a squirrel catapult.
If you built a squirrel catapult then you’d have real live flying squirrels. Maybe they should have a redneck squirrel chucking contest in the South somewhere with a squirrel eating contest with the splattered squirrel remains afterwards, that should really tenderize the squirrel meat for squirrel stew.
Reminds me of the rabbit scene in the Monty Python Holy Grail movie
You manky Scots git!
Ach mon, it’ll do ye a treat!
Probably the most unread and signed contract in the history of man
I think they added a zero to the total for effect.
Cisco Kid JANUARY 9, 2020 AT 6:21 AM
This is exactly what a Magic Black Squirrel did to America….
Squiggers…
As they were named at the college my kids attended…
I’d let the squirrels in my yard swim in the fish pond.
But first I’d protect them inside a wire live trap, sorta like a diver’s shark cage.
😉
GoFundMe ?
@ SAC Vet
I’m a SAC vet, too!
Squirrels are good for us. We need something to compare liberals against. In doing so liberals come off looking worse than squirrels, and probably have more communicable diseases than squirrels, who are often rabid.
What would be nice for the soul is to see liberals running across busy highways like squirrels do.
Arthur the liberal to his friend Benjamin, the liberal: Hey Bennie, let’s run across this freeway here.
Bennie: Arthur, don’t it’s rush hour.
Arthur: Watch this!
A few moments later, Arthur is hit by a semi doing 95 mph and goes airborne for 50 feet, landing on his head.
Bennie: Oh nnnnooooo…..poor Arthur.
Then Bennie runs across the freeway to help Arthur, and is hit by a semi doing 95 mph.
Sorta like squirrels.