Rescued squirrel 'dived like Tom Daley' (From Western Telegraph)
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Rescued squirrel 'dived like Tom Daley'
10:06am Tuesday 3rd July 2012 in County News
Firefighters who rescued a trapped squirrel from guttering watched it plunge to the ground from two storeys up "in a dive Tom Daley would have been proud of."
A fire appliance from Pembroke Dock was called to the rescue at 2.50pm on Sunday in Lewis Street, Pembroke Dock.
The call came from the RSPCA to rescue a grey squirrel with its paw stuck under guttering on the two storey house.
Graeme Callan, Watch Manager at Pembroke Dock Fire & Rescue Station, said: "The squirrel immediately freed itself and did a dive that Olympic high diver Tom Daley would have been proud of.
"Unfortunately the landing was a bit of a belly flop onto the road.
"The squirrel was fine and ran off down the road presumably in search of its nuts".
Comments(12)
taff2010
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2:30pm Tue 3 Jul 12
A Northerner in Pembrokeshire
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3:29pm Tue 3 Jul 12
Andrew Lye
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3:44pm Tue 3 Jul 12
Hyper-injunctions
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6:02pm Tue 3 Jul 12
I think the grey squirrel was probably pushed by a red one. Why can't they just get along?
Eckysense
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6:19pm Tue 3 Jul 12
taff2010 wrote:"Four legs good, two legs bad!"
What a waste of tax payers money, how ridiculous that the fire brigade is called out for vermin!!
Nicholas Brake
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8:05pm Tue 3 Jul 12
taff2010 wrote:What a horrible comment !!
What a waste of tax payers money, how ridiculous that the fire brigade is called out for vermin!!
It is good to see a nice story for a change, something to smile at. I'm glad that some of my cash has gone to do something good :)
conspiracy
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10:45am Wed 4 Jul 12
William 1
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9:18pm Wed 4 Jul 12
RFowler
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11:13pm Wed 4 Jul 12
I've called the RSPCA after finding abondoned dogs around my friend's farm and they didn't want to know. A bit strange then that they go to this sort of trouble for one vermin animal.
termite
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3:36pm Thu 5 Jul 12
Hyper-injunctions
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8:21pm Thu 5 Jul 12
Kevin Viner's recipe for two pasties
140g squirrel meat cut into 1cm cubes;
100g sliced potato; 100g sliced swede; 50g diced onion; 30g smoked bacon;
15g chopped hazelnuts; 75g butter;
5g chopped parsley; a good pinch of salt and pepper
Method
Egg wash edges of pastry circles.
Place the potato, swede, hazelnuts, parsley and seasoning on to each circle followed by the bacon, squirrel meat and, finally, the onion.
Place butter in each pasty, then fold over the pastry and crimp the edges.
Put the pasties on to a greaseproof baking tray, egg wash both pasties well, place in a pre-heated oven at 180C or gas mark 5.
Bake for 45-50 minutes. The juices should start to boil and the pasties should be able to move on the tray with ease.
Hyper-injunctions says...
11:23am Tue 3 Jul 12