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When Squirrels Attack

A cautionary tale
Source: Gleb Garanich / Reuters

Summertime in Washington, D.C. sometimes seems like an exercise in survival. There are swampy heatwaves in a region where the standard dress-code includes a blazer. And a metro that always seems to be catching fire.

But also: squirrel attacks.

“I was attacked by a squirrel while running this morning so that’s a real thing that happens apparently,” my colleague AdamSerwer told me this morning. He didn’t kill the squirrel with his bare hands, he after it bit her.

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