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NJ Man Faces 6 Months in Prison for…Shooting Squirrels in Backyard With BB Gun

Linden, NJ Man Faces Fines, Jail Time Under Animal Cruelty Charges for Shooting and Hanging Squirrels on His Fence

(Photo: Linden Police Department)

A New Jersey man was having problems with squirrels entering his Linden home through a hole. In order to stop them, he killed a few with his BB gun and hung them on his fence, like a warning to pirates entering a port.

Linden, NJ Man Faces Fines, Jail Time Under Animal Cruelty Charges for Shooting and Hanging Squirrels on His Fence

Richard Baird (Photo: Linden Police Department)

Now Richard Baird is facing $250 to $1,000 in fines and up to six months in jail under animal cruelty charges.

According to MyFoxNY, police say the 49-year-old man baited the squirrels by putting peanut butter on his tree, at which point he shot them when they approached it. Police are unsure exactly why Baird hung the squirells on his fence. Six squirrels were found hanging, while a few others were on the ground.

Baird told the authorities he had tried to cover the hole into his house but it wasn’t effective at keeping the critters out.

NewJersy.com reports Baird’s court summons is issued for June 26.

[H/t CBS Local]

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  • TheLegend
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:27pm

    Man if this were the case for me growning up i would be serving 15 consecutive life sentecnces! I sure will be glad when America gets a pair back! Ridiculous!!!!!!!!

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    • wdittgasn
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:39pm

      same here, many a squirrel bit the dust after I finished my paper route in the morning and then went to confront the little critters with my trusty Crosman 766. Animal cruelty?? I thought it was called hunting??……. I guess Bammy should be charged with human cruelty with all of his drone attacks…

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    • armyofnibiru
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:55pm

      over 16 ,go to hunting safety course,get licence.wait for season,kill 8 daily bag limit ,40 for season;keep police and pfetoa out of back yard,keep ass out of jail.i’m a member of People Eating Tastey Animals (peta)this story does not bother me,filthy rodents.

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:55pm

      THELEGEND, I was feeling pretty guilty til I read your comment, whew.

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    • TheLegend
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:03pm

      They need not fret, thanks to me those 6 little fury guys have thousands of friends in squirrel heaven waiting on them. Had to be pretty funny watching those squirrels try to get that peanut butter out of their mouth right before they caught that BB! lol

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:03pm

      Mmmmmm, Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Baked Squirrel, Fried Squirrel, Fricaseed Squirrel, Boiled Squirrel, Any way you cook them, Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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    • TexasHunter
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:04pm

      The only stupid thing he did was hang them out for others to see. There is a 3 S rule. Shoot, Shovel and Shut up.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:16pm

      Hey Texas
      It works for Rapists also.

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    • antiprogressive
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:19pm

      Cruelty generally refers to the WAY they died.
      If they weren’t “tortured” – did you waterboard them to death? – then the charge should be dismissed.
      You cannot TORTURE someting that is already dead…

      They “could” have a case on treatment of a corpse but that would be just as rediculous
      considering we are talking about a squirrel.
      Hunters hang carcasses every day in order to skin them…

      BS charge due to some “offended” neighbor calling the cops.

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    • Bunnyslope
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:35pm

      When they invaded my attic, not only did I kill the critters running through the insulation (and the babies!), but I took my Ruger .22 went outside and killed all that I could.

      I, too, left them where they lay as a warning to the others. Guess what, no more squirrels in the attic.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:46pm

      I didn’t know you could kill squirrels with a BB gun. I’ve been guilty of offing a few raccoons or more.

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    • dan@AL
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:56pm

      I’m just a good old fashion hillbilly and this is wrong to me but NOT a crime. the problem I have is that is not hunting its killing, if on the other hand he dressed them out and fried or stewed them that is great but don’t waste food people. tree rat and gravy is one of my favorite food so I guess my problem is just the waste of a few good meals

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    • aragona
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:08pm

      I’m inclined to agree with Danc@l – it also seems wrong to me. It’s not “hunting” since the meat is hanging, wasted, on the fence. For me, it’s just senseless killing…

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:15pm

      Wow….6 squirrels on the fence and “a few” on the ground. Sounds like he wiped out he entire neighborhood population. It also sounds to me like he was probably doing it more for sport and amusement than just concerned that the squirrels were going where he preferred them not.

      I’m not against shooting squirrels, per se, but this guy seems a bit over the top. He crossed the line.

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:18pm

      @ Antiprogressive

      Good analysis! That’s what I was thinking. His actions (the way he displayed the squirrels) was not in good taste, but the charges are ridiculous.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:21pm

      A rat with a bushy tail.
      Twice as destructive, they will decimate a house!
      Never advertise!

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    • Blazebanned
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:22pm

      @armyofninbiru aka encinom.
      Figures you would be a peta puke,or maybe not, since all animals to them are sacred,seriously kid, get a life…..

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:27pm

      A neighbor of ours was shooting squirrels a couple of years back. The squirrels were chewing through the siding and getting into his attic. They did $2,000 worth of electrical damage and almost started a fire. At least he was humane enough to use a .22.

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    • TheLegend
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:27pm

      Im all for eating what you kill, but im sure yall have killed rats and roaches and spiders, im sure you didnt field dress them and eat them now did ya, youve probably even hit a dog or two with your car, i hope you didnt take them home and fry them up too. You have to use a little bit of common sense here and realize that this wasnt some hunting trip this guy has been planning on all year, the squirrels were terroizing this guys house and im sure the great public works of NJ were real responsive on helping this guy out with his infestation of rodents. Sometimes you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelette

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    • cessna152
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:34pm

      I hate squirrels almost as much as I hate NJ….

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:40pm

      Always remember there is going to be some idiot that feeds them and thinks they are cute while they destroy YOUR house not theirs.
      Again do not advertise!

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:52pm

      My dad grew up in N.E. Arkansas during the depression years. They were so poor hunting squirrels was the only way they could eat thanks to the government (Demoncrat) caused great depression. .22 LR rounds were expensive and hard to buy, my dad had to come back showing one squirrel for every round my grandfather sent him out hunting with or He got His a55 beat bad. One day my dad invented a new way to hunt, tying dynamite to a 3 foot rope with a rock at the other end. He lit the fuse in the cap crimped by his teeth and tossed it into a tree where He had spied a nest. Great way to hunt in 1934 since Amatol was much less expensive than .22 rimfire rounds. Needless to say His dad gave Him kudos for bringing home large numbers of squirrels without wasting a single round. Plus He got extra credit for His old fashioned American ingenuity. He fed Himself, a sister, and both parents through years when there was quite simply no other way to survive. Dynamite was cheaper than nails in that day, cheaper than the caps and fuze but still more cost effective than using the old standby Remington. A plus was the BATF did not exist in those days and even if they did the local Law would have chased them out of their county. They had much experience keeping revenuers at bay already, some of the clan up in those hills were the inspiration for the movie Thunder Road. True story. As others have stated, wasting food is the only problem I have with this guy. He should not have hung them up in sight.

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    • Victoriajensen
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 4:05pm

      Heck here in the South they are a staple part of the diet lol. With gravey and bisquts of course.

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    • TexasHunter
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 4:10pm

      Hey dawg what you in here for? Shooting squirrels.. lmao the USA needs to get a grip in reality..

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    • TheLegend
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 4:29pm

      If Obama had a squirrel murdering son, thats what he would look like lol

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    • Knot4u2no
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 4:41pm

      Same here. I was annually asked by people to please visit their yards. 10 to 12 a day was not unusual … all eaten by those who love those rodents.

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    • Lonescrapper
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 5:00pm

      My cat should be in jail…

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    • skippy6
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 5:03pm

      Low in fat and pretty tasty…Should have butchered them……

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    • Smokey_Bojangles
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 5:03pm

      I Would get the death penalty! I actually ate the damn things!

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    • Buck Shane
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:01pm

      What about mouse traps?

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:10pm

      More of a small bird guy and some rabbits. Yes, I’d be in a cell next to this guy! You can’t kill anything around where I live and we are overun I tell ya with rabbits. In a master planned community, we have roadkill constantly.

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    • JohnZiraldo
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:31pm

      There is only one safe way to deal with tree rats.
      Live trap them.
      Sedate them.
      Shave their entire tails.
      Release them to different locations in the community.
      Report a rat infestation.
      Take cover.

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    • KevINtampa
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:36pm

      #1. We shouldn’t legalize or illegalize “poor taste”.
      #2. His land, his fence, his tree, his squirrel, his house, his business, his liberty. If this man’s pursuit of happiness involves shooting nuisance rodents in his backyard, I have ZERO problem with it. It’s not on my path to happiness, but it doesn’ty infringe on my pursuit so I could give two ***** and a piss what this man does.

      #3. What does concern me however is that this man’s liberty and pusuit of happiness is being infringed by we the people, by the collective, and this police department and attorney generals office is our arm that is doing so. In the end we all are responsible for the unfair fine and possible incarceration of this man. Really? We will threaten his freedom over a couple of squirrels? Up is already down and down is already up.

      A MAN’S FREEDOM IS AT STAKE OVER A FEW LOUSY RODENTS. I DON‘T CARE IF HE SKINNED THEM ALIVE WHILE POKING THEIR EYE’S OUT WITH A TOOTHPICK. A MAN’S FREEDOM IS NOT DETERMINED, NOR SHOULD IT EVER BE, BY HOW HE TREATS THE RODENTS ON HIS LAND.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:56pm

      Wish we had more squirrels in Arizona…HMMMM !!
      Oh, that’s right, here they are known as Liberals…..

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    • ScratInTheHat
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:23pm

      I live inside the city limits so I use this pellet gun. GAMO THE EXTREME CO2 http://www.gamousa.com/pr-detail.aspx?press-release=22 Tree rats do a number on my garden and I kill every one of them I can.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:19pm

      PEOPLE are going to figure out, one of these days, that GOD gave us animals to enjoy (yes feed us) and to take care of, not to mercilessly kill or torture. Animals are our little angels (think your dog or cat) and no animal should be mistreated. It takes a screwed up human being to get any pleasure out of shooting at another living thing unless 1) it is going to harm you or yours 2) it is going to feed you
      GROW UP PEOPLE. One would think that you think you’re king of the world or something, you aren’t…none of us are. LIFE is a GIFT and we‘re here by GOD’S GRACE ALONE. Not to kill little animals. (or big ones). Pity the fool who would try to do that in front of me.

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    • BigRighty
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:56pm

      We used to shoot gophers by the hundreds, usually through the truck window with a .22 rifle. You should of seen the gophers flip when you hit them low. Also, shooting pigeons by the dozens as they flew out of empty grain bins. Ah! Good Times.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 9:33pm

      Hanging them on fences?

      That was a squirrely thing to do….

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:17pm

      Texas-
      Shoot, shovel, and shut up? that would be a waste of good food. Unless you mean the shovel to whack the idiot, complaining neighbors with.

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    • Wahoobango
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 1:15am

      I like squirrels i just cant eat a whole one myself!

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    • grudgywoof
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 6:26am

      Squirrls are smart critters and hard to get rid of if they have a good food source. I say blast away…..eventually they will get the message and leave. I like the hanging them on the fence thing…..the guys got style. Hope we don’t have to do the same with inner city types when the finacial collapse comes……..Just kiddiing. I hope.

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    • maynardb61
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 8:53am

      If he is not going to clean em and eat em, he has no business killing them.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 9:20am

      He’d probably been fine if he would have just eaten the squirrels and hung the tails.

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    • Bloody Sam
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 9:22am

      What is so hard to understand about Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up?

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    • ConservativeBeauty
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:09pm

      I tried everything I could think of to get the squirrels OFF my deck and plants/flowers. Ex-lax, cascara sagrada. Anything but rat poison. Then I found this stuff that works great! never had a problem with them again. They’re like rats that are kind of cute., but they do destroy all your hard work. Shooting them, Idk, but if they’re a nuisance and there are so many, why not shoot them? There are people who shoot them and eat them…ewww..but whatever.

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    • BeenSetFree
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 2:08pm

      Aragon & Dan@AL, its called pest control. I don’t eat the mice I kill in the traps I set to rid them from my house. Do either of you? Now if he were killing deer or some other animal that wasn’t being invasive, I might agree with you, but that wasn’t the case here. I’ve seen squirrels invade a home and they can definitely do damage.

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    • Bryancpe
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 5:38pm

      @Bunnyslope
      Down here in the Arizona desert we don’t have much of Squirrel problem… we have a pack rat problem. Those critters are very destructive and make their nest out of anything their teeth will clamp onto. After those pack rats ate all the electrical wires out of the engine of my car and destroyed my alternator costing me lots of money at the mechanic, I took my .22 pellet gun and hunted as many as I could around the house and left poison for the rest. What a pestilence!

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    • armyofnibiru
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 10:00pm

      hey blazebanned thought you were banned byblaze are’nt you the godfather to.encinimon maybe blue but he aint no anunoky.lol.in case you aren’t to much of a reader the animal rights group is People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals,pftetoa. not People Eating Tastey Animals,peta.go back to huffpo where you belong troll.why the hate.?

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:25pm

    PETA will ask for the death penaty.

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    • blackyb
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:44pm

      Hug a tree and kill a baby people. These people are evil and are nothing but a way to get in the business and cause laws to govern people who are trying to live in this world. Most of these people are children of the affluent who have nothing to do but run around and try to spot things that does not fit into their world in la la land. They need to mind their own business and homes and do something useful with their lives. They really need to live like others and have to drive forces of nature and other forces back that hinder them in their pursuit of happiness. Of course many of them are financially secure and cannot relate to others, so they run around taking up causes to look busy. They might better back off.

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    • ICEDRAGONNITE
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:52pm

      PETA is for libs. Notice they haven’t said squat about HALAL and how it is prepared? SQUIRRELS are just like rats. They eat their way through the walls of most anything. The people in the community should thank him for ridding the area of pests. Since when is it illegal to protect your property from rodents?
      Tell the busy bodys to bugger of.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 4:32pm

      I can hear my father right now. “Son, squirrels aren’t your problem. The hole in your house is. Fix it.”

      I have nothing against killing varmits. But, this guy spent his time not solving his problem. I bet the money he has to pay in fines would have helped toward the cost of repairing his house.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:31pm

      @ DISMAYED VETERAN: WOW!!! You said it just right!!! I grew up in the South and squirrels were
      not considered rats. If I lived in NYC I’d want to get rid of the rats, but YOU nailed it!!!

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 10:37am

      Non sequitur. People are animals, also, so PETA can’t call for the harming of another human being. Unless, of course, said PETA rep is a hypocritical misanthrope. And we know that’s never the case, right? The worst PETA can do (and not cross their own self-impose line) is make one of those hilarious propaganda cartoon images of the guy towering over a mound of dead squirrels while the last one quivers before the leering human in a comical manner.
      ELF, on the other hand, takes a literal scorched earth approach to saving the planet (funny, that). I’m sure one these clowns would be happy to execute “the enemy” to prove a point.

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:24pm

    All creatures are part of the food chain. I have birds, squirrels, chipmonks, rabbitts and other underground critters. We also have a mated pair of large hawks in our neighborhood, many cats, and dogs like my schnauzers, who all are part of the big scheme of things. We get occasionl fox, possem, raccoons, too. It is a pain in the toosh at times, but I would think sealing the dang hole would fix it. I think there is an element of sheer cruelty here. Better ways to handle it. He doesn’t impress me. And the neighbors must love the smell.

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    • SageInWaiting
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:35pm

      A pine 1×6 is NOTHING for a squirrel to gnaw through. Personally, a “re-engineered” bug zapper might have been an option. ….but then you’ll have to deal with the smell of scorched fur….

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    • Theheartofanartist
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:53pm

      I agree with you, Jenny. In the time it took to kill all of these little animals, he could have fixed the place where they were getting in. It appears he took pleasure in killing them and showing off. It was easier and more fun for a cruel person to do this, than to do the needed work.
      I have no problem with hunting for food purposes. I do have a problem with anyone who kills for pleasure. What kind of person does this and then brags?

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    • deeberj
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:03pm

      You don‘t know that he didn’t try to fix the place where they were getting into the house. Squirrels are very persistent.

      And in some neighborhoods there are no other wildlife like you are talking about. Not everyone lives in a rural or semi-rural area with hawks and foxes and etc. As everyone has said, squirrels can be damaging to your home. It doesn’t happen in rural areas very often because they have plenty of trees to live in, but I know people who live in cities that just can’t get rid of them.

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    • woodmantech
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:05pm

      Jenny, you are making all kinds of assumptions about the problems this guy was having (the size/nature of this “hole”, his financial ability to properly fix the “hole”, etc., etc.). And you are giving far too much of a human aspect to these squirrels. They are… squirrels. They are rodents with a cute, bushy tail. They are destructive little animals that can cause quite a bit of damage. If this guy was a farmer and the squirrels were eating his crops would you be OK with him baiting and killing them? Farmers do that all the time. Not in NJ, mind you, but still.

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    • travlman77
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:10pm

      First of all, squirrels are nothing more than a rat with a fuzzy tail and a good PR man. I had the same problem in my home and I sent dozens to their maker, but for everyone shot, two took its place! I finally solved it by spraying ammonia in the attic where they were nesting and after a couple days they were gone and I sealed the hole. End of problem.

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    • SoDakUSA
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:13pm

      Good call WoodManTech…the coasties would have a stroke if they seen how we do things out here…

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    • jackal
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:31pm

      When the wife gives the word they the squirrels start disappearing.They are nothing but a rat with a furry tail they can live here with us as long as they do not tear stuff up.Back before Katrina eliminated about 15 in one week have not had to since for Katrina did her part.

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    • Melika
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:50pm

      Jenny Lind: It‘s obvious you’ve never had a squirrel problem. The article does state that he already tried fixing the hole and they chewed/worked through it. Once they have established a “home”, they are extraordinarily difficult to stop. They can chew through quite a bit of materials & they are intelligent which makes them very good problem solvers. I’m probably one of the few people who actually likes squirrels and has no problem with what this guy did. So what that he hung them up? A dead carcass can sometimes deter the same species. Who cares that he killed them with a BB or .22? It’s a fast death, way faster and less painful than plummeting to their death (which happens), diseases, or cats/dogs/foxes. He didn’t burn them alive (which would be cruel).
      I wonder what bothers you more, that the squirrels are dead or that he did it by not paying some exorbitant amount of money to have someone else do it. I suppose if you had the same problem, you’d hire a company to live catch them and kill them “humanely” where you can’t see. Or worse, dispose of them in some other back yard far enough away that they aren’t a pain to you.

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  • dude5722
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:23pm

    How can this be construed as animal cruelty when squirrels are a pest, a nuisance and a disease carrying menace? This is going way too far! I guess the SPCA is going a little over-board and having a field day with this one. Let the little critters stick to water skiing, nut gathering, home invasion, disease infecting and whatever else someplace else, but not HERE!

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  • chips1
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:23pm

    Why in the world would liberals be in his back yard?

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  • sikrik
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:22pm

    Something fishey..er squirrley about this.

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  • jg2pto
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:19pm

    When the twerp prosecutor can’t get animal cruelty charges to stick, they’ll pull some other BS out their a$$, like some kind of public health violation from hanging the squirrels on the fence. It’s a witch hunt, nothing more.

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    • Ruckus_Tom
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 5:13am

      Nope. It’ll be shooting a firearm within the city limits.

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    • Msgt Ret
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 7:20am

      “Most” city ordinances allow the shooting of a bb gun as long as it does not go off of your property.

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  • cbotrader
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:16pm

    Hate to tell you….but these are RODENTS!

    Next you are going to jail for killing a rat or a mouse…..I cry everyday for what my country I love has become….we are lost!

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    • One of the Quiet Ones
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:46am

      You can poison a rat but you can’t poison a squirrel. I think it is in case a hawk or something like that eats it.

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  • obxned
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:16pm

    Richard Baird is guilty!

    He is guilty of living in a state where the most ignorant and least qualified are regularly elected to rule their subjects.

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    • SFsuper49er
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:54pm

      Exactly , I was born there… Glad i got out when i was 5… All i had to see is where the story came from then i understood… Liberals !

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  • hauschild
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:13pm

    That’s what one gets when one chooses to live amongst communists.

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  • Arc
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:12pm

    Unfortunately, the dead squirrels didn’t scare off any others if he continued to shoot those who came back for peanut butter.

    The US Navy attempted to “scare off ” seagulls by killing several and placing them around their airstrips.

    Any jet mechanic who has had to work a “bird strike engine ” knows the problems

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  • moreteaplease
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:11pm

    It’s so hard to believe that you can be sentenced to jail over something like this these days.

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    • wdittgasn
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:43pm

      It is all for the purpose of making us afraid of our own shadows, afraid to even think.

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    • Cavallo
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:53pm

      Land of the free… or so we are told.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 10:43am

      You can be sentenced to jail because a judge has a sore behind. And people will defend this garbage because an authority figure shan’t be questioned. The contempt of court threat is one of the most misused and abused powers the legal system ever dreamed up for itself.

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  • LameLiberals
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:10pm

    Sick bastard.

    He needs to remove whatever tree branch is hanging over his roof giving squirrels access to his roof. Plus, his roof role repair was not done correctly or the animals would not be able to gain access to his house. Lots of homeowners have had issues with squirrels getting in the attic, including me. But I didn’t have to kill them.

    This idiot reminds me of an old neighbor I once had who repeatedly shot squirals in his attic with a gun. Fool blew holes in his roof which he covered with another shingle. When he sold his house, he took a bath on it because the extensive roof damage was done by inspectors and he refused to fix it and sold it “as is”.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:00pm

      Sometimes the squirrels come over from the neighbor’s roof if the houses are close enough.

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    • RockinChuck
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:15pm

      squirrels can climb brick walls (like a spiderman) . My problems is hanging them on the fence. That is unsanitary. bury them or eat them or feed them to your cat or dog. That fence thing is a little wrapped.

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  • Johnny Cocheroo
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:10pm

    Hunters kill deer with bullets = ok
    Hunters kill deer with arrows = ok
    Farmers kill chickens with ax = ok
    Land owners kill coyotes = ok
    Hunting squirrels in state parks = ok
    women kill growing babies in belly = ok
    Obama kills people with drones = ok
    Obama kills U.S. citizens without trial = ok

    Guy kills squirrels with bb gun on his property = prison?

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    • caleejr
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:37pm

      ain’t that the truth …I couldn’t have said it better myself

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    • Dannytheman
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:14pm

      Very well said!! NJ has completely lost it. There is no saving them now! All the ones with common sense have left!

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    • Landon410
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 4:18pm

      i guess i could understand a ticket for shooting in city limits, but $1000 and jail time? seriously?

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:09pm

    I was out walking the dog last night and must of committed at least a dozen acts of mosquitocide. It‘s a good thing Michigan doesn’t have a death penalty, I could be in trouble.

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    • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:15pm

      serial killing sociopath with megalomaniacal tendancies. Hope you enjoyed your walk you are now on a list…..they are WQQtching you…

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    • Johnny Cocheroo
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:24pm

      I am harboring a fugitive.

      I let my dog out in the morning before leaving for work. Much to my surprise, he had a dead woodchuck in his mouth when I let him in.

      I delivered a punishment he will never forget: 2 dog bones, a good scratching behind the ears and a “Good Boy!” He is living up to the terms of our pact: free food, comfort and fun in exchange for protection and possibly his life one day. Animals are pretty and cute – until you surprise them.

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:56pm

      Lol!!

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  • inblack
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:08pm

    Cruelty?

    What exactly was cruel?

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:08pm

    I have chipmonks eating all my strawberries. Can I shoot them? Guess not. At least they are well fed, but I sure would like to get rid of them.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:15pm

      We live in a rural area and there are plenty of field mice and chipmunks all around. A couple of our cats have become excellent hunters of the ground squirrels. The field mice have always been easy pickings for them. If we could just get them to stop killing the lizards all would be well.

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    • wdittgasn
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:01pm

      I know someone who has pecan trees but they don’y get to enjoy the nuts because of squirrels…. I said pop a cap in em. they did. now we get to enjoy the pecans ourselves. And just one rabbit can devour a small garden…. One year a rabbit ate every one of the soybeans they tried to grow.

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    • jbw1960
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:14pm

      There is a hunting season for squirrels in Nassau County New York, however, there are no restrictions on chipmunks. I HAD the same problem with my strawberries.

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    • CMDR6
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 5:13pm

      Four small, “so cute”, rabbits devoured my lettuce 3 times this spring until they had a severe case of acute lead poisoning. I even bought bunny food and put it out in various places in the yard, put onions around and nothing worked like a sub sonic lead head .22
      My wife even bagged one…..BUT we did not hang them out for others to see. Bad show on this guys part…..

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  • tbo
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:08pm

    Whats next, prosecuting exterminators for killing rats?

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  • D-Fence
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:07pm

    Lol

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:06pm

    They are rats with fuzzy tails, what’s the problem?

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    • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:12pm

      the government officials or the squirrels?

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    • justangry
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:13pm

      Best served baked in a parmesan cheese breading.

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    • chips1
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:30pm

      Shades of Davy Crockett!!!

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    • Mainer forever
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:06pm

      Squirrels are kinda cute…I do HAVE to remind myself that they are just Rats with a furry tail. I did not know that a BB gun could kill a squirrel.

      Chipmunks are very cute. Nervous little guys they are.

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    • Ruckus_Tom
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 5:28am

      No problems at all … until the gun laws are changed.

      A .22 in your back yard – hell, .22 short rounds with snake shot (at least)- should be legal.

      Unfortunately, within most city limits, it’s illegal.

      The Feds / State / County / City / (HMO?) frown on people shooting firearms for any reason inside a city limit.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:05pm

    since when is hunting cruelty??????

    that is essentially what he did

    screw the government , and the nosy neighbor that reported him

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  • Steve28
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:05pm

    Not sure how it can be against the law to keep varmits out of your house. I do think hanging them on the fence is bizarre and baiting was not too sporting but this is insane. These are wild animals and if not for the fluffy tail you would think they are rats.

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  • The Original Ralph
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:04pm

    why he hung em on the fence is easy – don‘t think those squirrels don’t get the msg. A buddy had a few peach trees in his garden and a problem with squirrels taking a bite out of the peaches on the trees. he shot a few and hung them in those very trees – problems stopped.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:12pm

      We do the same thing with coyotes in the San Joaquin Valley and it has the same results.

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  • SLEAZYHIPPOs ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:03pm

    Me thinks this could be a hate crime…..

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    • AmericanStrega
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 11:41am

      Now see, here in NE Kansas we have Bl.ac.k Squirrels. If you purposely kill a .Bla.ck Squirrel, you get a big fine and possible jail time (if you kill more than one or are a repeat offender). Now, we also have brown squirrels. They don’t get the same protection as the Bl.ac.k ones.

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  • Mandors
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:02pm

    It is difficult to express the sadness that we have become a nation more concerned with the lives of vermin than the lives of our unborn.

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    • inblack
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:08pm

      Amen.

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    • Rajabear1
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:49pm

      Man, you hit the proverbial nail on the head. I have to say though, my grandpa would have LOVED to have caught that many good eats. He loved him some squirrel! Never forgot how tripped out we were when we‘d go back to So Ill visit and he’d catch himself some squirrel and eat them. The most squirrels we ever saw were the ones that we would feed at the Grand Canyon or Disney’s chip and dale…and there he was making stew out of them…

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    • OlderCowGirl
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:45pm

      There are so many people on crusades to protect polar bears, whales, turtles, squirrels…..but we maim, torture, and then kill little baby people by the millions. Birth Control??? I want a boy…not a girl??? God’s gonna really be mad someday. I live in Oregon where thousands of families lost their job because of critters like the Spotted Owl…or red squirrels…or worse…fish. I used to write environmental reports. I know how the EPA works. They are insane (and keeping a job) by protecting all the critters they can…but it’s really just a big land grab.

      I know personally of a little boy who died from picking up a road-killed squirrel…of the Bubonic Plague. Never touch the vermin. Heard another report just today on the radio of a man sickened with the Bubonic Plague.

      I live on a small farm. We have 3 guard dogs that kill anything foreign that comes into our pastures. That includes the neighbors cats. I trapped and killed a “bird” one time for taking my alive-peeping-baby-chicks to their nest, to eat alive. I hung that bugger-bird over a gate (secret) and the rest of those “birds” left. My neighbors who don’t have livestock guard dogs lose their goats, sheep, llamas, and horses to cougars and bears. Folks actually want to bring back the Grizzly bear? Grizzlies could go through my 6 ft fences, & into my house if they wanted.

      I’ve personally killed predators that were attacking my animals…and I’m a 65 yr old woman. The rule is…don’

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