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The sound of a hammer and a thick country accent directly outside of my bedroom window woke me from my nightmare sleep.  This was a rather jolting thing because my bedroom window is on the second floor and I can’t imagine anyone being able to simply stand outside of it and talk.  Until men and women learn to fly, which I figure is just a matter of time.  I wouldn’t mind a jet pack.

I guess the apartment complex decided to do something about all of the holes that squirrels get into in our roofs.  On cold winter nights, I listen to the scratching sounds of squirrels walking around above my head all night long.  And on some nights, fights break out and there’s all this thumping and scratching and hearty noise.  It’s really annoying.  I never complained though because, hey, this is there living space, too.  I’m not one of those, “I don’t want animals existing in my sphere” type of people.  I think it’s only fair to let them get warm in the roof on a cold winter night since this place probably cut through their habitat anyway.

Doesn’t stop it from being annoying as hell, though.

So, they put up these plastic grate things underneath the parts of our roof that stick out that the squirrels burrow holes into and get in by.  It got so annoying that I went to take a shower in the hopes that everything would be done by the time I got out.  There’s only so much yelling and hammering I can take not a foot from me with only a thin wall to separate us.

It occurred to me though… they are trapping squirrels in the ceiling.  True, it’s the day and they don’t tend to really fill the space until night, but I am sure there are a few in there.  And now they have no way out.  That’s just cruel.  Surely there must have been some way to flush out the squirrels before just trapping them in there to die from the heat or from starvation. Not only that, but what when their little squirrel bodies begin to rot in the heat? How is that going to smell?

It’s true, internet.  The people who own this apartment complex are effin’ idiots.

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