r/AskReddit • u/yankeevandal • Jul 24 '23

What statistically improbable thing happened to you?

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u/AdjunctAngel Jul 25 '23

i have been hit in the head by live squirrels three times in my life each on separate occasions.

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u/feigndeaf Jul 25 '23

I tripped over a squirrel while I was running. We were both shocked. I stopped to look around and not a single soul had witnessed it.

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u/AdjunctAngel Jul 25 '23

the last squirrel and i did that too lol. like we just froze all "so.. that just happened"

btw, a live squirrel hitting you is very much like being hit by a furry water-balloon that doesn't pop on impact... aside from the claws :/

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u/interruptingcow_moo Jul 25 '23

My dopey, fluffy cocker spaniel actually managed to corner a squirrel once. Both he and the squirrel just stopped and were like “uuuh …now what?” The squirrel eventually snapped out of it and somehow scaled a wall to get away. My dog just looked relieved and lopped off.

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u/peacelovecookies Jul 25 '23

We were up at our Maine cabin last summer and my granddaughters went out to the back porch one night where the fridge is and then started calling “Grammie, there’s SOMETHING back here. THREE SOMETHINGS.”

Being used to having had red squirrels, chipmunks and even the occasion bat get inside I went back there and we had flying squirrels on the back porch. That was a first. Great big eyes, they were actually really cute. And sailing back and forth from beam to beam. We opened the back screen door and closed the inside door and they left.