This is why I feed squirrels in my back yard every day. You gotta love their patriotism!
FLAG STEALING SQUIRREL CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 29, 2011
TOLEDO, Ohio — Police solved a series of flag thefts from the Toledo Police Memorial Garden when the culprit — a squirrel — was caught in the act.
The Toledo Blade reports that police had noticed the flag thefts for several days. Then, last week, Lieutenants James Brown and Mark King saw the squirrel take a flag and plastic flower from the memorial.
“I just saw him eyeballing it,” Brown told the newspaper. “He didn’t know I was standing there.”
Officials later found a squirrel’s nest with flags woven into it. “The flower was not visible, but police believe it will be used in decorating,” according to the newspaper.
The Blade reports that, as yet, no charges have been filed and the squirrel is currently at large.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is not the first time a squirrel has used American flags to build its nest.
PATRIOTIC SQUIRREL STEALS U.S. FLAGS TO BUILD ITS NEST
New York Daily News
May 30, 2009
PORT HURON, Mich. - Squirrel. Thief. Patriot.
A brazen squirrel has been grabbing small American flags in a Port Huron, Mich., cemetery and carrying them to its nest, which looks like it was decorated by Betsy Ross.
"He plucks them right off," said Ron Ceglarek, superintendent of Mount Hope Cemetery in Port Huron.
Every Memorial Day, volunteers place the flags next to the graves of nearly 1,000 veterans buried at Mount Hope Cemetery about 55 miles northeast of Detroit. The flags were undisturbed during a Mass held Monday.
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