Two raccoon stories
 

My parents have 2 garbage bins that are sunk into the ground with heavy steel lids... supposedly raccoon proof... but at least twice a week they would wake up to find garbage strewn all over the place. They figured it was the raccoons... one holding up the lid, another scrounging for food. Well, one morning they caught the thief... ONE raccoon, with one hind paw on the step-pedal, and two front paws digging through the garbage, and two little beady eyes staring up at my father as if to say "WTF are YOU doing interrupting my meal???" From then on the trash went out in the morning... like, say, when the garbage truck was pulling up. :)

Another story: This happened to my husband's grandparents. A raccoon took up residence in their attic and had some baby raccoons (cubs?). My husband's grandparents discovered that there were raccoons in their attic, and boarded up the attic fan and any other access they could find. Well, it turns out that Mama Raccoon had been out looking for food and had left the cubs behind. She actually tore a hole in their roof to get to her babies!! This time, they let her and her cubs leave before reshingling :)

Well, Well, Well...i've learned a lot about this thread so far...ppl don't mind if we poison racoons, but god forbid we hurt the squirrels...which i have to say would only be a preventive measure vs over-population. If someone can reply with a viable solution as to my dilemna - like i said, i'm not making this story up, it's an actual daily problem - I will take it under consideration.....while the jury is still out on the verdict, let me provide everyone with another anecdote.

This summer my buddies and I are playing golf on a beautiful summer afternoon. I should note that there is quite a bit of wildlife on this course. On different occassions dear and wolves (to give a couple examples) have been spotted by different golfers. Anyways...on the second hole i'm waiting for my buddy (who shanked his tee shot) to hit, while I stood ahead by a tree.
As we wait for the ppl ahead to move, i look back to notice a creature is jogging toward my buddy. Lo' and behold it's a coyote....(me yelling at my buddy) "hey whitey, whitey!"
"shutup i'm hitting,"...the jack#$& didn't even care that a somewhat dangerous creature strutted right past him....so now it's headed toward my direction, not sure what to do I back into a semi-defensive stance with my 4 iron in front of me. Closer, Closer, Closer he approaches until he's a few feet in front of me....then with a somewhat smug look, he takes my nicey hit tee shot into his mouth and runs off.

Iritated from mother nature's wrath that occurred a few holes earlier, I seek out revenge by betting my buddy a case of beer that he can't grab a Canada Goose and run with it for at least ten seconds. At this current hole, it's a short par three with a stream near the green. There's about 6 Canada Geese or so just shootin' the S%*^ with eachother - not caring about any of the golfers walking by.....

So my buddy creeps up on the closest one and scopes it into his arms. Now for those of you that haven't seen a can. goose up close, it is a very large bird that could definitely cause some damage. So as he has this thing wrapped around his arms, the whole time squaking and bitting his arms while the rest of them are nipping at his legs.
He's all 'argg, owww, you #$*^*$,"... meanwhile we're rolling around on the green laughing at this spectacle. The whole endeavor lasted maybe 5 seconds - the geese definitely kicked his #@% ...for the effort i bought a few rounds of beer later on that night.

Are you sure you're not making this up? if you were, that would immediately label you as a poopy head pedophile assclown jagoff moron. Don't make stuff up dude. Not funny.

hey....we be truckin'....

Yeah but pabst? It would be better if it was schlitz or strohs.

BTW rob, what did you do to remove the leech attached to your buddy's genitals...?

Dude, us midwesterners know that Stroh's is a great idea at the time (ie 10 bucks for 30), but the next morning it's not even worth eating. Seriously. Like a goose.

My memory is a little fuzzy . . . I either used my teeth, or ran away screaming all high-pitched like a little girl. One of those, definitely.

Come on K Sig, show a little class and put Rocky Mountain High Colorado Coor's on your beer wagon or add Buckhorn, the most frugal of college students beer to it! Oops, probably NO one knows Buckhorn!!!!!

God I hate wild life!!!!!! If they dont mess with me, I damn sure wont bother them!

I grew up hunting for food and after hunting people on the KCK PD I never went again! They dont carry guns so what is the sport of shooting a POOR unarmed Bambie?:D

PS, I am trying to be normal, scary isnt it?:p

ewww ewww ewww.....it's funny, because it's true....
moving along...

As the survey is tabulated, no one has come close to offset the sway of the vote much. As we all know, certain GC users hold greater status than others. The highest being BillyMac and lifesaver, so when both of these esteemed gentlemen favor for the elimination of our furry little freind... it's gonna take a whole lot of 'something' to sway the vote back in the opposite direction.

Tom, i understood your whole post ;) how fabulous! Rob may be upset about your "return to normalcy" - he thought your sense of humor was pure genius

Tom is just letting we mortals get a clue...

As for wildlife, there was quite a bit around where I went to school, but the biggest animals on campus were the Phi Delts.

Sorry.

I was driving home last night and almost hit a deer. I had to slam on the breaks to avoid it.

i hate those kamikaze deers....they have a bad day and then want to screw with us by playing chicken...as damasa would say...bah!

yes....those kind of deer..the kamikaze deer are not friends...they are out to get us..and they deserve a total...>BAH!

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