When a lady saw a squirrel inhaling on a vape stick, she initially believed she was “going crazy.”
The rebellious rodent was observing its new behavior from a tree, which made social worker Sammy Barker pause.
The 33-year-old woman from Wallasey, Wirral was at a nearby Merseyside park with her 3-year-old nephew Leo Morris when she saw something odd.
“I saw one on the ground munching on what at first glance I initially mistook for a huge red pepper.
“As I drew nearer, I believed I was going crazy.”
The squirrel then went up the tree carrying a vivid crimson vape, perched on the limb with it between his feet, and suckled on the end, according to Sammy.
“I was so astonished, and I worried that the squirrel would become sick from multiple puffs of the vaporizer.
“I was in the park playing on the swings with my nephew, and we were watching a couple of squirrels playing and running around the trees,” she said.
“We stayed and observed him for a while till he continued to climb the tree while holding the vaporizer in his hand. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”
