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When... squirrels attack

Never mind dogs, the new challenge to postmen is squirrels. Angry, attacking squirrels.

Barb Dougherty, a 30-year Postal Service employee, said she was attacked and bitten Monday by a squirrel while delivering mail in Oil City, about 75 miles north of Pittsburgh.

"It was a freak thing. It was traumatic," Dougherty told The Derrick newspaper. "I saw it there on the porch, put the mail in the box and turned to walk away and it jumped on me."

The squirrel was shot, so that it could be tested for rabies. They don't have any plans to test the postie in the same way.

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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