Stanford University students are being traumatized by squirrels. The campus squirrels have begun bizarre suicidal death leaps into the path of oncoming student bikers.”Yesterday, I was riding my bike along Escondido Road, when all of a sudden, my friend Katie screamed at me,” says Vauhimi Vara. “When I turned around, it turned out I had almost biked over a dead squirrel … It was quite traumatic.”

“It’s really hard to even ride your bike on campus,” says Katie Founds. “They’re always leaping in front of you.”

“It’s pretty scary, actually,” says Walter Shen. “They got these huge claws … like Spiderman up the walls.”
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