Woman Finds Squirrel Swimming In Toilet, Calls 911 (VIDEO)

The police can sometimes get a bad rap, but we often forget the important role they play in our community. Case in point: the police in Edmond, OK, recently performed their civic duty with valor and integrity. The culprit in question? A renegade toilet-swimming squirrel.

In a scenario straight out of a Dreamworks animated movie, a local woman was startled to find a squirrel splashing around in her toilet. So she did what anyone would do -- called 911. The dispatcher sent over a cop to apprehend the critter, who immediately called for backup. Apparently the crime rate in Edmond is such that apprehension of squirrels is a priority.

Check out the video below. Come for the rodent chase, stay for the squirrel-related puns dished out by the local news.

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Comments

[bridgeman]

06:03 PM on 12/13/2010

she may need to ask her boyfriend just exactly what they did on his "night out with the boys"

[LeftLeanWing]

11:06 AM on 12/13/2010

D@mn ! ... what did she eat for dinner ?

[gypsysailor]

02:15 AM on 12/13/2010

Oh, my aching nuts!

[bibb]

07:52 PM on 12/12/2010

Squirrelly creature spreading crap around and gets T.V. coverage..................sounds like Sarah Palin to me!

[edgeninja]

06:55 PM on 12/11/2010

I'm surprised she didn't yell "Hey, Pa! I found us some dinner!"

[CPAwADD]

05:37 PM on 12/11/2010

Probably came into the house on the freshly cut Griswold family Christmas tree.

[signgrrl]

05:49 PM on 12/11/2010

we had a snake come into the house just that way (Florida). very exciting.

[LMPE]

05:03 PM on 12/11/2010

I guess that I could quote the dog in "Up", except it's probably too obvious.

[Erica Anderson]

03:33 PM on 12/11/2010

It looks gray? She doesn't know what a squirrel looks like? lol

[maxwelldog]

02:13 PM on 12/11/2010

well, good news, bad news, and same ol' news...
Good news, squirrels don't generally do the through the sewer run
Bad news, rats do
same ol' news, the announcer is right. Look first...terrible time to discover a surprise.

[Bartolo27]

12:25 PM on 12/11/2010

He had to call for back up. Wow. That was one difficult case of Police work.

[MemphisBuffalo]

10:08 AM on 12/11/2010

The squirrel looked flushed.

[jsarets]

08:52 AM on 12/11/2010

"look before you leak"

groan... what is it with TV newsmen and bad puns?

[Paul Houston]

08:32 AM on 12/11/2010

Same happens over here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2xNshiVSfM

[arizonabay]

07:33 AM on 12/11/2010

New urban myth mutant sewer squirrel that eats sewer alligators.

[Sara Lira]

05:39 AM on 12/11/2010

This reminds me of anchor man when one of the guys s*its a squirrel and the dumbe rone thinks it's a chocolate squirrel and eats it~ Hahahaha