Police Blotter
From the May 10, 2012 Salmon Recorder Herald….
Woman reported a large unknown type of animal (dispatch thought it sounded lick (sp) a rock chuck) confronted her as she was attempting to enter her vehicle. Woman ran back to her house and the animal chased her and then ran under her house. She said the creature chirped at her.
[Editor’s note: When I went to college in the oh-so-sophisticated city of Spokane, Washington, I found out that the species I knew to be rock chuck and whistle pig had other more formal names (please see my earlier scientific journal log about whistle pigs). A rock chuck is also known as a yellow-bellied marmot …
Photo by Wanda Bates
and I’ve never known one to attack a human. Or maybe most humans are too prideful to admit that they’ve been chased into their house by a rock chuck.]
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Dear Podunk,
“..I’ve never known one to attack a human.”
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=marmot+attacks&oq=marmot+attacks
“Or maybe most humans are too prideful to admit that they’ve been chased into their house by a rock chuck.”
Perhaps they use aliases on YouTube.
Kind Reader,
I watched a few of those, including “Killer Marmot on Mt Ralston trail from Camp Sacramento attacks defenseless hiker” and I have yet to see the actual attack. I, however, was ready to attack the Mt Ralston trail hiker for his horrible camera work. He should be forced to watch my mom and dad’s underwater video from Tahiti.
When I read that report in the paper, I laughed for a good 10 minutes, half of which was devoted to the horrid spelling and half to the incident itself. Thanks for sharing the “you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up” moments of our blotter!
PS — I also watched the “Killer Marmot on Mt Ralston,” and now I’m a little sea-sick . . . . : Q
That was an incredible episode in the police blotter. I love Podunk!