Squirrels just wanna have fun: Thieving rodents steal outdoor lights in East Vancouver

[Spazito]

'Tis the season for squirrels to supplement their winter stores — and for some, that appears to include Christmas lights.

Some East Vancouver residents say they're losing bulbs on their outdoor lights to the thieving rodents, who experts say also enjoy gnawing on the chewy cables.

Hastings-Sunrise resident Karyn Lam says she caught squirrels in the act on her surveillance camera last Saturday, after noticing about a dozen bulbs from her outdoor string lights had gone missing.

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"We thought someone came in and cut them, but we didn't know for what reason," said Lam.

She said the mystery deepened last year when her husband found several of the missing lights buried in the yard of a neighbour for whom he was mowing the lawn.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/squirrels-stealing-lights-1.7056080

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. I had squirrels steal about a dozen large, colored Christmas light bulbs when I lived in Minnesota.

[Spazito]

2. I had never heard of it before reading this article...

I had no idea they would do something like this.