It sounds too bizarre to be true. But residents at a Florida village have had to fight off an attacking squirrel twice in the past week.
In the first incident, two residents and a staff member at the Sterling Court retirement home in Deltona were injured after the rodent got into the village’s activity room.
According to media reports, a woman had been sitting outside when the squirrel bit her on the leg. Unable to shake the animal off, she then ran indoors where it found its other victims.
An unlikely emergency
“We had a squirrel that entered our building, and it’s in our activity room, and it’s jumping on people and biting them, and scratching them,” a 911 call from a panicked staff member reveals. “We need help. It’s still in there, and the people are bleeding.”
The squirrel was then tossed outside, but it didn’t deter a second attack this week in which a squirrel, possibly the same one, scratched and bit an elderly women, leading her to fall and break her wrist.
This time, the rodent was shot and killed by a staff member who just happened to have a BB gun, but it’s unknown if it there is one perpetrator.
Holiday Touch, the company that manages the home, says it is doing everything it can to protect staff and residents, setting traps and posting warning signs.
Let’s hope it’s enough to avoid round three.
