Redneck or Resourceful?

Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself.

With the warming weather, the squirrels have been running around in wild abundance, leading to many a squirrel vs car contests. Haven't seen a squirrel win one yet.

I found one in front of my driveway, DRD (Dead Right There), and figured, "What the heck..." It hadn't been there for long, so I grabbed my knife and a pair of gloves, cut the tail off and threw it in a box (the tail). Realized the "street" value of my neighborhood was fantastic. So I took a ride (and a bottle of hand sanitizer) around the plan. Ended up with eight of them. Sick, huh?

So yesterday I'm out gettin' some tail and my cell phone rings. It's a buddy of mine..."Hey, where are you and what are you doing?"

"Um...why?"

"We a had a lady call complaining of a guy in a red SUV who stopped in front of her house and cut up a squirrel. Ran the plate...it came back to you."

I told him what I was up to...after about a minute of solid laughter (and incredulous disbelief), he cries, "Now I have to tell this lady that it was a redneck, not a Satanist...GREAAAAT!"

Maybe Suburbia isn't for me...

Redneck if ya skined them and ate them, resourceful if ya just saved the tail & hide.

Not to hijack the thread, but what if  you shoot starlings in your backyard for feathers with your son's bb gun?

Pitt  

Mo - now that is a good one!!!!! Thanks for the laugh!!!! Thing is though - I can remember doing the same thing but I never got questioned about it...... Very funny story!

Good job MS..
Haven't taken that plunge quite yet but I've been eyeing this dead possum out front for a couple days now....

Kinda funny how it used to be just road kill now that I'm tying flies it all looks like dubbing and streamer material..

ORIGINAL: Plum Bob

Black squirrel tails, Westfield, NY. Picked up a couple last year, natural black is superior to dyed for salmon or sthd hair wings. Pedestrian asked me what I was doing out in the middle of the road with a dead squirrel. Just told her I'm retired living on a fixed income.

She didnt ask you why you were only in your underwear? That would have been my first question.

We are a sick bunch. A few weeks ago I was on my way to work and saw a red fox road kill. I figured I would stop and "harvest" some material on the way home. I did stop, but someone beat me to it. Same thing happened with a gray fox same week! I wanted some porcupine quills for a mayfly pattern, and I actuallly put a pair of pliers in my daughter's car, as she travels a route to work that always has a porky or two on the side of the road. She wouldn't bite though, and ended up buying quills for me from e-bay.