Outliers: And the squirrel news just keeps on coming

When Outliers alerted you recently to the latest squirrel dangers (and fundraising opportunities) (Nov. 28), we had no idea it was only the beginning of squirrel-centric hospital news.

The latest comes from New Jersey, where a flying squirrel caused some havoc. In fact, firefighters were needed stat after a flying squirrel went nuts in a hospital's emergency room.

The squirrel kept launching itself from an 8-foot-high wall-mounted lamp into a glass wall after becoming trapped recently in a trauma room at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Rahway.

Fire Department spokesman Capt. Ted Padavano told the Star-Ledger of Newark it would climb up on a light and would jump off and glide.

A pair of firefighters threw a blanket over the squirrel and released it into a wooded area outside the hospital.

Padavano believes there may be a nest in the building because it was the second time in two weeks that a flying squirrel got into the ER.

Outliers can only wonder if one of them is named Rocky.