Despite their adorably puffy tails, squirrels are a genuine nuisance. So it warms our hearts to see the nerds of the world banding together to battle these furry invaders with what they do best: engineering over-the-top solutions like this water cannon sentry system.
Don’t want vermin stealing from your bird feeder? Then do what this family did, which is to motorise the bottom of it, should something heavier than a bird (e.g. a squirrel) infiltrate. Watch what happens to the unsuspecting critter inside.
It is among my few regrets in life that I don’t have a front yard, only in that it limits me from unleashing an army of solar-powered squirrels on the neighborhood.
