Tennessee Cop Fired After Altercation With Squirrel

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

A police officer lost his job after a bloody confrontation with a squirrel at the Dollar General store in Mountain City, Tennessee last month.

Reports vary as to what exactly happened. Some say Officer Jody Putnam, who was called to the scene by a concerned employee, fired his service weapon at the rodent and missed, and then doused it with his pepper spray, inadvertently gassing the store's customers in the process. As WJHL reports:

"Shooting back there, of course that should not have been, that should not have happened," said property owner Carl Duffield.

But that didn't work, so he tried another weapon.

Duffield said, "then they began to spray it with mace and pepper spray."

And the mace affected more than just the squirrel.

"There was a lot of people that come out and just like me they came out and they were coughing and a hacking," said Duffield, "It was comical, but I'm sure they didn't feel that way, the customers that came out."
But according to Mountain City's own The Tomahawk, Officer Putnam used the pepper spray first. When that proved unsuccessful, he tried to shoot the rodent with his service weapon, firing at many as three shots before a customer heard the “scream of the squirrel.” The customer reentered the store and found Officer Putnam with the dead animal pinned beneath his shoe.

Despite the obvious danger of firing a handgun—at a squirrel, no less—inside a crowded store, Putnam was not fired for discharging his weapon, according to WBIR. Instead, the City Council and mayor fired him for violating department policy, after he refused to fill out a report about the incident.

I swear this is one of the funniest stories I have ever seen, and the kicker was he got fired because he didn't want to file a report!

 

[Piper Maru]

This is nuts.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

People call cops for a squirrel ...wow.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Well, to be fair TheSquirrel was really mad after his Deathmatch with SuperFerret

 

[Breogan]

Reason for discharging weapon: Dangerous suspect terminated, lethal force necessary.
Description of suspect: Small brown furry squir..... Maybe I shouldn't.
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[Airwings]

"Squirrels, like people, can seem very cute until they get hungry"

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[KevanG]

What the ****? Couldn't they have just shooed it away?

 

[Pink Ranger]

People call cops for a squirrel ...wow.

Apparently, in Tennessee only the police are licensed to operate push brooms.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Apparently, in Tennessee only the police are licensed to operate push brooms.

Well yeah, ever since that janitor held a bunch of schoo children hostage

 

[KevanG]

To be fair that was some type of super squirrel. It took three bullets, mace and pepper spray before going down. I can see why he felt excessive force was needed. If they made this into a movie they could end it like Lake Placid and have a sequel hook with babies waking up.

 

[Hotwire]

I sure hope he had some saving squirreled away!

 

[Hotwire]

To be fair that was some type of super squirrel. It took three bullets, mace and pepper spray before going down. I can see why he felt excessive force was needed. If they made this into a movie they could end it like Lake Placid and have a sequel hook with babies waking up.

Soon to be a SyFy Original Movie!

 

[Hal_Jordan]

it was no ordinary squirrel...

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Cop: "I fought the squirrel and the squirrel won, I fought the squirrel and the squirrel won."

But seriously , this cop should've gotten a marksman award if he managed to shoot a wild squirrel.

 

[Schlosser85]

A police officer lost his job after a bloody confrontation with a squirrel at the Dollar General store in Mountain City, Tennessee last month.

Just the first line has me cracking up.

 

[Piper Maru]

How long until we get a movie about this?

 

[Pink Ranger]

How long until we get a movie about this?

Nic Cage is already phoning his agent.

 

[Ant-manic]

it'll be Zach Galifinakis.

 

[Piper Maru]

I can see Shia Labeouf being the squirrel. The movie will be directed by Christopher Nolan, music by Hans Zimmer.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

it'll be Zach Galifinakis.

I'd pay 3D prices to see that.

 

[Pink Ranger]

it'll be Zach Galifinakis.

Yeah, as the cop, but Cage can play the squirrel.

 

[Immortalfire]

Freakin squirrels, always keeping a man down.


Seriously, they called the cops for a squirrel?

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I swear this story makes me chuckle every time I think about it. Just imagine the bloodlust in that squirrels eyes that must have set that cop off. And he wouldn't write up a report about it.

 

[Dispatch Ninja]

Freakin squirrels, always keeping a man down.


Seriously, they called the cops for a squirrel?

You've never heard the squirrel cop story? It's hilarious.

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[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

I'm bumping this thread to show Alex Murphy what "real news" looks like. There can be only one anchorman in the community forum, and his name is motherf***ing DJ.