{"id":1013943,"date":"2022-03-08T01:08:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T01:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/08\/watch-louisiana-deputy-pounced-on-by-squirrel-during-traffic-stop\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T01:08:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T01:08:06","slug":"watch-louisiana-deputy-pounced-on-by-squirrel-during-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/08\/watch-louisiana-deputy-pounced-on-by-squirrel-during-traffic-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Louisiana deputy 'pounced on' by squirrel during traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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March 7 (UPI) —<\/span> Sheriff’s deputies in Louisiana shared video of the moment a deputy was “pounced on” by a squirrel during a traffic stop.<\/p>\n

The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that deputies were conducting a traffic stop involving an arrest when “things got squirrelly.”\n<\/p>\n

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“Upon a vehicle search, a ‘pet’ feral squirrel — which was inside — pounced on the deputies,” the post said.<\/p>\n

The video shows the deputy flailing as the squirrel quickly climbs around his body.<\/p>\n

The post said the squirrel was safely returned to its cage. The sheriff’s office said the deputy and squirrel were both unharmed by the encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 7 (UPI) — Sheriff’s deputies in Louisiana shared video of the moment a deputy was “pounced on” by a squirrel during a traffic stop. The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that deputies were conducting a traffic stop involving an arrest when “things got squirrelly.” Advertisement “Upon a vehicle search, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1013944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}