What animal doesn't hate postal workers?
November 2, 2006
11:00 AM -- Step aside you mailman mangling mongrels, as dogs are no longer the postal worker's most feared enemy:
Letter carriers occasionally have to deal with angry dogs or maybe even a spider's nest in a mailbox, but a mean squirrel? Barb Dougherty, a 30-year Postal Service employee, said she was attacked and bitten Monday by a squirrel while delivering mail in Oil City, about 75 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Perhaps the little fur ball was just trying to save good ole' Barb from sticking her hand in a spider's nest?
The animal ran up her leg and onto her back, she said.
Hmm... Kinky.
"I eventually got a hold of the tail and pulled it off me," Dougherty said. "No one was home at the house where I was delivering the mail, but the neighbor lady heard me screaming and came over."
The neighbor lady?
Squirrels do not frequently bite people, said Regis Senko, who works for the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Steve Jolley, a Postal Service manager in Oil City, said, "We are not issuing a squirrel alert, but everyone is aware of the incident."
That's the spirit, Jolley! If we live in fear, the terrorist squirrels win.
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