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Scunthorpe boss gets hit by a squirrell

  • 06-09-2012 3:25am
    #1
    grenache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭


    Its all rather nuts.


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19487255
    Scunthorpe United boss Alan Knill tells BBC Radio Humberside how getting "hit by a squirrel" whilst cycling has put his side's recent poor form into perspective.

    Knill says the squirrel got caught in his wheel, which resulted in him falling on his head but the United boss say he is lucky to have only suffered bruising rather than a broken collarbone, or worse.


Comments

  • #2
    chupacabra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭chupacabra


    Was hoping someone threw it at him instead of him just hitting it with his bike.

    How disappointing


  • #3
    Your Airbag
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    Is the squirrel okay?


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Your Airbag wrote: »
    Is the squirrel okay?

    Quite dizzy (at best).


  • #5
    Your Airbag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,517 ✭✭✭Your Airbag


    I'm hearing its the same one and he's fine. A bit of celebrity in the squirrel community apparently.

    SimpsonsAbeSquirrel.jpg


  • #6
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    That excuse is up there with grey jerseys


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  • #7
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,648 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    Your Airbag wrote: »
    Is the squirrel okay?
    Yeah it says in the article he was lucky to only have bruising,

    Lucky Squirrel, let's hope he doesn't take up hitting cars as his next hobby.

    What a sh1t story anyways, must be a really sleepy place Scunthorpe, what with squirrels having to resort to hitting cyclists for excitement and not much else must happen for this incident to be used for putting things into perspective.


  • #8
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Squirrell is out for 3 months.


  • #9
    Roger Sterling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 978 ✭✭✭Roger Sterling


    I heard it happened because the squirrell was out of his tree at the time....


  • #10
    RandolphEsq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    Delighted the squirrel got mangled, little rodents annoy me these days on the golf course, can't leave the golf bag unattended or else they'll climb in to have a root for food leaving god knows what sort of disease behind. Cull them all!


  • #11
    Your Airbag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,517 ✭✭✭Your Airbag


    I hate to be the bearer of bad news but ......

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgA6JyP_FJ8


    Why do the good have to die so young? :(


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  • #12
    Father Damo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    chupacabra wrote: »
    Was hoping someone threw it at him


    A squirrel? THIS is how you make a point by throwing animals

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrOBqn0asug


  • #13
    jaykay74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,594 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    That excuse is up there with grey jerseys

    bit of a random dig at utd. :confused:


  • #14
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,928 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    It's that effing squirrels we should be looking out for....!

    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/girl-catches-bubonic-plague-squirrel-024949496.html


    (literally just after reading article linked)


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