But the really fiendish attack was a team effort during November. I discovered one of the felonious pair drowned in the guest toilet bowl, having failed in his mission. I spent the day at work puzzling over how he could have gotten in the house, then in the bowl, then pulled the lid down before drowning. I found out when I got home and discovered his buddy had made it all the way to the outlet pipe to the septic tank. His body plugged up the pipe, causing my (here-to-fore unknown to me) slowly leaking guest toilet to overflow instead of draining down the pipe. Cost me $500 to get the carpets dried out and cleaned.

Eric

(In case you were wondering — November. Nights get cool. Squirrels look for warm places. Like the plumbing vent tubes that poke through the roof. The little ruffians entered the vent, then traveled or fell down the tubes, then scurried around — one surfaced in the toilet, the other found is way down the waste pipe until he drowned. Guy who pumped my septic tank (before we figured out the outlet pipe was plugged) said he sees several cases like it every fall. I put anti-terrorist squirrel mesh over the vent tubes).

A week or so later there was a sizzle, a click and all things went black as squirrel #2 plummeted to the ground.

We had a new transformer two days later.

Squirrel Cop.

That story is hilarious! Thanks for linking it.