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Nov. 16th, 2007 10:17 amSquirrel's epic swim across lake
Tourists on board a pleasure boat in the Lake District could not believe their eyes when they spotted a red squirrel in the middle of Ullswater.
The mammals can swim, but they find it very strenuous, and have been known to drown in water troughs.
But this determined squirrel had swum 300 yards (274m) - or about the length of six swimming pools - from the shore.
Passengers lowered a rope to the mammal and it climbed on board and hitched a lift back to shore.
This is like a live-action Disney film - the little squirrel, boldly training for the Animal Olympics, mocked by his squirrel peers, and other animals, but he keeps going and makes it to .. wherever the Animal Olympics are held. Probably all for the love of a beautiful girl squirrel, voiced by Angelina Jolie, and with a wily rat as his trainer, a bumbling hedgehog as his supportive but slow best friend, and a flock of middle-aged-women pigeons who watch him run and make initially disparaging comments but are eventually won over by his pluck and courage, and can be seen, towards the end, cheering him on (along with the rest of his animal friends) via a TV screen in a shop window. Why the Animal Olympics would be on TV, I don't know, but I'm sure Disney can come up with some reason.
In fact I think I should draft a script. Disney would eat me up with a spoon ;)
Tourists on board a pleasure boat in the Lake District could not believe their eyes when they spotted a red squirrel in the middle of Ullswater.
The mammals can swim, but they find it very strenuous, and have been known to drown in water troughs.
But this determined squirrel had swum 300 yards (274m) - or about the length of six swimming pools - from the shore.
Passengers lowered a rope to the mammal and it climbed on board and hitched a lift back to shore.
This is like a live-action Disney film - the little squirrel, boldly training for the Animal Olympics, mocked by his squirrel peers, and other animals, but he keeps going and makes it to .. wherever the Animal Olympics are held. Probably all for the love of a beautiful girl squirrel, voiced by Angelina Jolie, and with a wily rat as his trainer, a bumbling hedgehog as his supportive but slow best friend, and a flock of middle-aged-women pigeons who watch him run and make initially disparaging comments but are eventually won over by his pluck and courage, and can be seen, towards the end, cheering him on (along with the rest of his animal friends) via a TV screen in a shop window. Why the Animal Olympics would be on TV, I don't know, but I'm sure Disney can come up with some reason.
In fact I think I should draft a script. Disney would eat me up with a spoon ;)
