A woman had to "double take" when she looked up at a tree while in the park with her nephew.
Sammy Barker, 33, from Wallasey in Wirral had taken her three-year-old nephew, Leo Morris, to a nearby park when she witnessed something very strange. The social worker was forced to do a double take after seeing a squirrel eating what she described as a "giant red pepper".
But it wasn't until she looked closer that she thought she was "going nuts" when she saw what the animal was holding was in fact a red vape, Dailystar reports.
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She said: “I was in the park with my nephew playing on the swings and we were watching a couple of squirrels playing and running around the trees. I spotted one on the ground eating something which at first, I thought at first was a giant red pepper.
"As I got closer I thought I was going nuts (excuse the pun). The squirrel then ran up the tree with a bright red vape and sat on the branch with it between his feet, suckling on the end of it.
"I was so shocked and was concerned for the squirrel as I thought several tokes of the vape might make him sick. We sat and watched him for a few minutes until he climbed further up the tree with the vape still in hand.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
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