A sadistic squirrel is making a bloody attack on a Queens neighborhood, leaving some injured in fear of leaving home.
“The squirrel didn’t care, he just wanted something – he wanted blood,” masked Rego Park resident Micheline Frederick, 56, told The Post on Wednesday. “After a few days, I went out with a shovel, just in case, looking around.”
The squirrel survivor also told ABC 7 that she has a good reason to remain shaken by the dishonest rodent: “The next thing I know is an MMA fight in the cage and I am losing. It basically goes up my leg and I’m like, ‘OK, squirrel, hello – what are you doing?’ ”
The bushy-tailed beast “bit me or scratched my neck,” said Frederick of the invasion that left his hands with blood and bruises on December 21.
Since she had at least eight bites and her little finger was “quite chewed,” doctors at a nearby emergency care center sent Frederick to the emergency room for rabies shots.
Then she warned her neighbor, Licia Wang, about the imminent threat.
His message, however, was not enough: despite being alert, Wang was also brutalized by the animal.
“I tried to get rid of it, but I couldn’t, you know – because squirrels have claws that cling to your winter jacket. There is no way you can get rid of it, ”Wang told ABC 7 of his recent encounter with the cute madman, who may be the same one who attacked Frederick.
Three other people – at least – reported recent encounters with bloodthirsty worms near 65th Drive, near Fitchett Street. It is not clear whether all the incidents were committed by the same terror or whether a pack of squirrels is at work, but either way, residents now live in fear of being attacked.
“[I’m] concerned about children. That’s what most people are concerned about – it’s the kids, ”said Frederick.
“When we leave the house, we have to carry Mom’s homemade pepper spray to make sure that if she comes to us, we spray it,” teenager Anika Singh Sood, an eye-witness of the wild squirrel, told the news team. of local TV, cracking.
However, Anika’s mother, Vinata Singh, 45, told The Post that she identified the multiple squirrels – one of which “invested” in your face.
“I don’t know how many – but I think there would be at least three,” said Vinata, wielding his DIY pepper spray and pointing to bite marks on a wooden chair on the family’s porch. “The first time my husband was attacked, he realized why [the squirrel] I was gnawing here aggressively. “
The concerned mother also said she heard a rumor that a neighborhood pet may have escaped. A representative from “one of the agencies” approached by the residents told Vinata that the violence may be the result of a “pet shop squirrel who does not know how to hunt or look for food, who may have followed another squirrel who might have been sick – and possibly infected. ”She emphasized that it’s just a“ theory ”right now.
Despite requests from the community for help, the city only recommended that they hire a licensed hunter, which was done. So far, the fur monster remains at large.
“The New York Department of Health received a complaint about an aggressive squirrel in Rego Park and advised the owner to hire a licensed New York State hunter,” the city’s Department of Health said in a statement. “Squirrels and many other small rodents are rarely infected with rabies. If New Yorkers believe they observed an animal infected with rabies, they must report it to 311. ”
Meanwhile, Frederick showed The Post his bandages and said with a laugh: “Yes, 2020 was a hell of a year – but he definitely didn’t expect to be attacked by a squirrel.”