In the greatest epic Ramayana, there are so many interesting anecdotes.One interesting is of the little squirrel.Lord Sri Rama had to cross the sea to reach Lanka and his warriors were involved in building bridge across the sea.Mighty monkeys and powerful bears were carrying huge bolsters and putting them on the sea and alongside was a small squirrel, putting small pebbles and then drenched itself in sea water, ran to shore, rolled itself thus making its body full of sand – then off-loading that sand on the bridge – it was perfect example of not getting overawed by the situation nor by what others did, but contributing one’s mite towards fulfillment of the target. ~ and we know that Lord Sri Rama was so compassionate .. ..
"Squirrel
is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to
be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth,
and real-time requirements of applications like video games." ~ in civil
society there are some who terrorise, who put fear into people pursuing their
objectives ! ~ and can squirrel the little one, ever be considered as one ?
Over there in Germany, the
Federal Police (Bundespolizei or BPOL) is a (primarily) uniformed federal
police force in Germany. It is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of the
Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern (BMI)). Ordinary police forces, meanwhile, are under
the administration of the individual German states (Bundesländer) and are known
as the Landespolizei.
Squirrels are members of
the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents. The
squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots
(including woodchucks), flying squirrels, and prairie dogs amongst other
rodents. Squirrels are indigenous to Asia, Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and were
introduced by humans to Australia.Squirrels
get lots of attention from humans, but not always much appreciation. We tend to
dwell on the stolen birdseed or the occupied attics, yet squirrels have a long,
mostly harmless — and often entertaining — history of living in our midst.
A couple of years back was
a news item that a woman was stalked in
Germany, she reported the matter to Police, who duly arrested the stalker
…..it made news because the stalker was
a ‘squirrel’ that followed a woman through the streets and she could not escape
it. The incident occurred in Bottrop in
West Germany; Police responded her emergency call and apprehended the small
creature. German news agencies reported that anaggressive squirrel that stalked a woman through the streets of a German
city was 'arrested' by police. The worried woman reported the 'nutty' incident
to police in the city of Bottrop, after she thought she was being followed by
the creepy creature. After failing to shake the animal off her tail, she made
an emergency call to police officers, who attended and promptly put the little
squirrel behind bars.
While being taken care of
at the police station, officers worked out that the rodent was showing signs of
exhaustion and fed it honey and slices of apple, reported The Local.A video of a Police woman feeding the animal
using a pipette and wrapped in a blanket went viral with more than 300,000 times being viewed. In a
statement, the force said once the squirrel is well rested it will be passed to
an animal welfare center.
Now comes another news
involving squirrel and German police.Police have rescued a man after
he called for help saying a baby squirrel would not leave him alone. Emergency
services received a call on Thursday from the man, who claimed he was being
chased down the street by the tiny animal. Police in Karlsruhe said the unnamed
man called them in desperation after he was unable to shake off the small
rodent.
Officers sent a patrol car
out to investigate and arrived to find the chase still in full flow. But the
drama ended suddenly when the squirrel, apparently exhausted by its exertions,
lay down abruptly and fell asleep. Officers took pity on the animal, which had
probably become separated from its mother. Police said it likely targeted the
man because it was in search of a new home. “It often happens that squirrels
which have lost their mothers look for a replacement and then focus their
efforts on one person,” said Christina Krenz, a police spokeswoman.
She said the animals could
be “very persistent, not just running behind someone, but entirely fixated on
them. It can be pretty scary. The man didn’t know what to do and so he called
the police. He was certainly feeling a bit threatened”. But police on the scene
appeared more amused than alarmed. “A squirrel will be our new mascot, it will
be christened Karl-Friedrich,” said the police write-up. “The squirrel has
fallen asleep in fright.”Krenz said: “It was just a bit of fun. The officers
thought up a name that would suit the baby squirrel.” Officers took the
sleeping Karl-Friedrich into police custody, and then to an animal rescue
centre, where it was said to be doing well. Krenz said the rescue center was
looking after two other abandoned baby squirrels brought in on the same day for
similar reasons, though theirs was the only case in which police have had to
intervene.
Interesting !
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
11th Aug 2018.
