COLORADO SPRINGS — Twice a year before its pledge drive starts, local public radio station KRCC likes to offer members a thank-you gift for donating early.
Sometimes it’s symphony tickets. Sometimes it’s museum passes.
This time, it is squirrel underpants.
Seriously.
“They are really tiny cotton underwear,” said KRCC’s general manager, Delaney Utterback.
The 100 percent cotton tightie whities – the same style seventh-graders wear when they are hung from their locker doors by bigger, meaner seventh-graders – have a three-inch waist and are machine washable.
They are sold by Seattle-based oddity peddler Archee McFee, purveyor of the inflatable fruitcake and unisex prosthetic chest hair.
The company market the knickers as “The underpants squirrels prefer!”
Make your own nut joke here.
“The only thing we are concerned about is that there is no tail hole,” Utterback said when reached Thursday to confirm that the station is really, seriously, giving away squirrel underpants.
He said yes.
Read more about the unorthodox thank-you gift and the station’s pledge drive at .
