Kicker - Squirrel avoidance

NICK EICHER, HOST: At my house, certain words trigger immediate action.

AUDIO: Minka. Squirrel!

Yeah, four seconds from asleep to on the hunt.

But when some others see a squirrel, they get out of the way.

A teenage driver in Massachusetts swerved so as not to hit squirrel in the road.

But what he hit instead was a house. And not just any house. It was a cottage constructed in the year 1650 by an ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln.

No one was injured, but the historic home was.

Police arrived at the Samuel Lincoln Cottage to find an Audi SUV parked mostly inside—after ploughing into a wall outside.

Samuel Lincoln was President Lincoln's great-grandfather. A team of specialists is working to carefully repair the damage.

As for the squirrel—so long as my faithful doberman is nowhere near—looks like it’s going to be OK.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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