some dude kicked a squirrel into the grand canyon...

[Exophase]

What a dick. Hopefully the squirrel survived. Many small animals can't easily die by falling, but I am not sure where a squirrel lies on the terminal velocity scale. You'd have a hard time killing a mouse by dropping it.

I have no idea how close this was to terminal velocity, but at least it's something: http://io9.com/5946627/squirrel-hurls-itself-through-a-fourth-story-window-scampers-off-unscathed

But in this case the squirrel didn't jump or was dropped, but kicked pretty hard, that can't be too good for it :/

 

[Pr0d1gy]

What videos is this?

White Wilderness.

 

[John Connor]

Someone should shove a pipe bomb up his ass and kick him over the side of the canyon.

 

[Puppies04]

but I am not sure where a squirrel lies on the terminal velocity scale.

African or European?

 

[SMOGZINN]

Somehow this just feels like a euphemism.

"Back off or I'll kick your squirrel into the grand canyon!"

 

[amdhunter]

lol it's cruel and all but the soundtrack kinda made it hilarious at the same time.
What a dick for feeding the guy then kicking him off though.

 

[Mark R]

It's not really acceptable or ethical to go kicking a harmless animal.

That said, the terminal velocity of a squirrel is such that the fall is unlikely to hurt it seriously (just like a cat), and also just like a cat, squirrels have a very well developed "righting reflex".

 

[DigDog]

how did he manage to get close enough to kick the squirrel in the first place?
EDIT:
LOL, thats brilliant.
poor squirrel, many laughs tho.

 

[Phoenix86]

Holy shit.

Wow, I'm fucking amazed by this thread, I don't have the words to explain.



















He got a threat title correct.

 

[BUTCH1]

It's not really acceptable or ethical to go kicking a harmless animal.

That said, the terminal velocity of a squirrel is such that the fall is unlikely to hurt it seriously (just like a cat), and also just like a cat, squirrels have a very well developed "righting reflex".

It fell 4,000ft, not 40ft, it was toast.

 

[Markbnj]

I have no idea how close this was to terminal velocity, but at least it's something: http://io9.com/5946627/squirrel-hurls-itself-through-a-fourth-story-window-scampers-off-unscathed

But in this case the squirrel didn't jump or was dropped, but kicked pretty hard, that can't be too good for it :/

All true. Being of low mass does help in the kicking part too, but the acceleration might wreak havoc internally.

And Butch1, I don't think the height really matters. That's why it's called terminal velocity. If you drop a beatle from 4000' there is no way for it to fall fast enough to die when it hits. I think that is true for a mouse. Not sure about a squirrel, but after thinking about it I lean toward dead . It's been a long time since I handled one. I remember them being pretty light, but I don't know if they are light enough.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Seriously?

<--Having a hard time giving much of a fuck about this quite frankly.

 

[halik]

Yea, they can be annoying in the lawn but pummeling critters so you can enjoy watching them die is kinda sick IMHO.

This. Psychopathic fuck; not sure why you'd do it to any living creature.

 

[zinfamous]

At the grand canyon they are 1 step away from trained cuz all the tourists feed them. Even though they have signs not to feed them.

yeah. anywhere you have constant visitors, especially tourists, the squirrels are a legit terror. Any college campus, they are evil bold little assholes.

Every visitor things feeding them and photographing them is such a great idea. And this is the worst time of year--the new generation is running out of the nest, learning to gather and hide shit. They learn pretty quickly that large bipedal humans are a great source of food. They stalk and attack random people just walking by.

Over the last two weeks, just walking outside the building--one of the annual squirrel breeding ground/facebook photo studios on campus--I've seen 4 squirrel attacks.

People think this is "cute."

 

[OBLAMA2009]

All true. Being of low mass does help in the kicking part too, but the acceleration might wreak havoc internally.

And Butch1, I don't think the height really matters. That's why it's called terminal velocity. If you drop a beatle from 4000' there is no way for it to fall fast enough to die when it hits. I think that is true for a mouse. Not sure about a squirrel, but after thinking about it I lean toward dead . It's been a long time since I handled one. I remember them being pretty light, but I don't know if they are light enough.

trust me, that thing died, i went to a university that had palm trees and i would ride my bike past dead squirrels that had fallen out of those trees and onto dirt ground (not freakin rock) every day

 

[waggy]

Seriously?

<--Having a hard time giving much of a fuck about this quite frankly.

yes and no. while i hate squirrels and really won't care one died.

what that guy did was wrong. kick the squirrel for no other reason to see it fly to it's doom...D:

 

[PlanetJosh]

He got a threat title correct.

And the rest of us are snobbish intellectuals or snobbish educated people with our clear understandable grammatically correct thread titles. His sentences/titles are funny though.

 

[JulesMaximus]

yes and no. while i hate squirrels and really won't care one died.

what that guy did was wrong. kick the squirrel for no other reason to see it fly to it's doom...D:

Are you even sure it died though? Squirrels are pretty good at not getting hurt when falling and if the canyon this douche kicked it into has a sloping wall it may have survived with no injuries... assuming it survived the kick of course.

 

[PlanetJosh]

Could he have slipped when approaching the edge to get a good view and when he tried to balance himself his leg swung around or up and smacked into the squirrel by accident? Wait and see if this will be a defense.

 

[Markbnj]

trust me, that thing died, i went to a university that had palm trees and i would ride my bike past dead squirrels that had fallen out of those trees and onto dirt ground (not freakin rock) every day

I have yet to see a squirrel fall out of a tree, but I'll take your word for it. It's a long way down from the crown of some palms.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Nice, I always believed animal cruelty needs to have bigger fines. If he had kicked a person over it would be murder.

There is a potential chance the squirrel survived but it's probably hurting bad. I don't imagine they have a very high terminal velocity. Either way, I would not want to try it. The kick probably did him in though. That's gonna break pretty much every rib and possibly the spine.

I miss the old place I used to camp at all the time, they would come eat from our hands and stuff, was awesome.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Kind of messed up, but it is a squirrel. Big deal.

 

[master_shake_]

It's not really acceptable or ethical to go kicking a harmless animal.

That said, the terminal velocity of a squirrel is such that the fall is unlikely to hurt it seriously (just like a cat), and also just like a cat, squirrels have a very well developed "righting reflex".

i watched a squirrel fall off a high tension power line over a road it was about 50 feet that squirrel was dead.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Saw a squirrel fall about 30 feet out of a tree into grass when I was a kid seemed to have broken two or three of his legs.

 

[olds]

Mayne, wanna go to the Grand Canyon?