Ravenwood - 09/19/05 06:00 AM
A Czech town is spending $12,000 (290,000 koruna) to build a bridge for squirrels to cross the road.
The seven-metre (23-foot) high cable bridge attached to two trees spans a road that divides a large park in the town of Sokolov in the west of the country, near the German border.I don't know which is worse; classifying furry little tree-rats as a "protected species", or spending $12,000 to string a cable across the road. Most of the money is being put up by a local brewer, with the rest coming from the town. In the U.S., we usually pay people to get rid of the little vermin.We think this construction is unique in the world. I myself witnessed two dead squirrels on the road in the space of two months and I felt we had to do something," Sokolov mayor Karel Jakobec told AFP Thursday.
At the moment the park is home to just three squirrels.
Category: Left-wing Conspiracy
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If they want more squirrels, I'll be glad to let them build a bridge out of my attic into a UPS box for those who sometimes gnaw their way in.
Posted by: Woody at September 19, 2005 9:26 AMHmm, sounds good to me.
I'd love a place like that to go shooting moving targets.
Posted by: countertop at September 19, 2005 9:44 AM"At the moment the park is home to just three squirrels."
So that makes it $4k per rat?
Posted by: Pasty at September 19, 2005 11:12 AMWhy would this require any more than a rope stretched between two trees?
Posted by: markm at September 19, 2005 12:22 PMSqurrels loves nuts as we all know and there are a big amount of nuts there why dont the get them their own little cars so they can drive accross
Posted by: screaming eagle at September 19, 2005 3:46 PMHey Rocky watch me pull a porker outta muh hat
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