Posters featuring a mysterious squirrel have been popping up throughout Seattle, and the internet has some burning questions.
SEATTLE – Who is the Seattle Squirrel Watcher?
What we know:
Squirrel-related flyers popping up around Seattle are going viral online, and FOX 13 Seattle is talking to the “person” behind them.
For the last six months, posters throughout the city have been garnering a lot of attention.
Each of the bulletins has a different message, but the topic is always the same: squirrels.
And each of these flyers are linked to the same Instagram account: “SquirrelWatchingSeattle.”
One pamphlet reads, “Looking for love. I am a single squirrel looking for an eligible lady squirrel.”
Another flyer asks the community to prank their neighbors by putting acorns under the hoods of their cars.
The handout that has likely gotten the most attention promotes a service where the Squirrel Watcher will come to your house, dressed up as a squirrel, and you can feed them peanuts.
“I’ve seen one at least on every single lamp post down here,” said Jamesen Shoptaw. “I think it’s funny. I wish I could see more of them,” he added.
Most of the people who we spoke to in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood were aware of the Squirrel Watcher flyers, but the message is spreading more than just on the street.
Thousands of people have seen the different posts on Reddit and Instagram, and some have hundreds of comments.
“I feel like it deserves more,” said the Squirrel Watcher.
FOX 13 Seattle directly messaged the person behind the Instagram account to talk about the flyers.
They tell us, since August, they have posted more than 1,000 posters.
Shoptaw tells FOX 13 Seattle he hopes the Squirrel Watcher keeps up their work.
“I was having a hard time last week and seeing them made me laugh. It was really good,” he said.
The Source: Information in this story is from FOX 13 Seattle reporting.
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Tomorrow (Monday, June 1) brings not only a new month but also the first graduation ceremony of the season for West Seattle’s three biggest high schools. And all are graduating at new venues this year. Summit Atlas, which after nine years remains West Seattle’s only charter school, will graduate 55 seniors in a ceremony at Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien at 6 pm Monday. West Seattle’s two major public high schools, Chief Sealth International HS and West Seattle HS, both have graduation ceremonies on Wednesday, June 17, at McCaw Hall (hosting graduations while Memorial Stadium is being rebuilt) – CSIHS at 5 pm, WSHS at 8 pm. The Seattle Public Schools webpage for graduation info also lists where and when ceremonies are planned for its alternative programs, some of which hold classes in West Seattle.
The Seattle Seahawks lost a key member of the front office to the Minnesota Vikings, as the NFC North team named Nolan Teasley its new general manager. The hire could change the fortunes of both teams in the immediate future.
Teasley will be taking over a Vikings team that isn’t far away from contending. One of the key reasons the team fired former GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah wasn’t that he couldn’t build a collection of talent, but that he didn’t seem to understand how to get the best possible answer at the most important position in sports: Quarterback.
Vikings fans watched as former QB1 in Minnesota, Sam Darnold, signed with the Seahawks last offseason, and then followed that by helping lead his team to a Super Bowl victory. That was Seattle’s second title. Minnesota has never won a Super Bowl.
Teasley, though, has the experience and, clearly, the ability to create an environment in which a team will thrive. He has been working with general manager John Schneider in Seattle since 2013, and has worked in scouting and been the director of pro personnel. He has most recently served as Schneider’s assistant GM.
Schneider could very well be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame one day after leading the Seahawks to two Super Bowl wins. Still, with teams with two completely different rosters and coaching staffs (Schneider is the only GM to ever do that), Teasley would have learned at the knee of one of the best to ever perform general manager duties.
Nolan Teasley could also be entering a situation where his new team is already poised to make a deep run in the playoffs. Minnesota finished 9-8 last season despite the fact that its quarterback play was among the worst in the NFL. This offseason, the Vikings signed Kyler Murray.
Murray underwhelmed or was injured throughout his career with the Arizona Cardinals, as Seattle Seahawks fans know well due to their favorite team counting on two wins every season against the NFC West brethren, but under the wise direction of Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell, Murray could be coaxed into playing a much better form of football.
As the Minnesota Vikings play in the NFC, and could potentially be a difficult obstacle for the Seahawks to repeat as Super Bowl champions, Teasley is already in a good spot. The issue for Seattle is that Teasley is smart enough to make moves to get Minnesota even better well into the future. A great rivalry between Seattle and the Vikings might be about to start.
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