Seriously, I did play with them.
It takes a few days of patience, but you can tame them enough to get them to run up your leg and sit on your knee for a peanut, and eventually get them to sit on your shoulder for one. I used to have one that would go into my shirt pocket for a peanut.

Or, if you feel like pranking them, you tie a peanut to a length of string and tie the other end to a long stick. When the chipmunk takes the peanut you can lift him off the ground and swing him back and forth. (Of course, then you toss him a peanut to compensate for freaking him out.)

And then, of course, there was the Bugs Bunny box-on-a-stick trap...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 30 Mar 2012, 14:49, Reply)