Raccoon Murder Lands Frat Brothers In Hot Water

[hoosier]

Raccoon Murder Lands Frat Brothers In Hot Water

Dec 25, 2003 2:40 pm US/Central
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) A fraternity member was treated for possible exposure to rabies, and he and two others could be expelled for beating, skinning and then eating a raccoon that might have had the disease, the fraternity's president said.

The men had spotted the raccoon behaving erratically outside the Phi Kappa Psi house at the University of Georgia on Dec. 12. One hit it with construction pylon and shot it with a pellet gun in the fraternity's parking lot, Athens-Clarke County Animal Control officials said. Another skinned the raccoon, and a third cooked and ate some of its meat.

Erratic behavior can be a symptom of rabies in an animal, but the raccoon could not be tested because its carcass was burned. At least one fraternity member was treated for possible exposure to rabies, which can be fatal if left untreated.

The three members involved will go before the fraternity's grievance committee and face possible sanctions from reprimands to expulsion, said Larry Bales, fraternity president.

"It was a ridiculous situation -- an isolated incident," Bales said. "It was not a fraternity-sanctioned event."

[KillarneyRose]

Idiots. What would possess someone to do that? I'm not even talking from the "cruelty" angle. More from the "dumb" angle.

[Adelphean]

Stupid, I'll agree.
However, it does sound like a typical stereotype of something any person from a southern state would do. Too bad they're in GA. Here in TN it's perfectly legal to pick up roadkill for the purpose of eating it.
And no I'm NOT kidding!


-Lindsay

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[dekeguy]

Racoon Murder?????
Since when can one "murder" a racoon? One can murder a human being but one cannot murder anything else. I'm not sure what kind of idiot would kill and eat a racoon displaying eratic behavior, which ought to send all sorts of warning signals. For that matter I'm not sure why anyone would want to kill one anyway, but, you cannot MURDER an animal. That word has precise legal meanings and only applies to humans.

[squirrely girl]

It's just one more example of people attributing stupid behavior to that of belonging to a greek org. Nobody would have said crap if they'd been three regular people...

marissa

[jharb]

That was in the Cincinnati paper this morning and my Grandma called me to ask if my sorority does stuff like that.

I just wish it had been GDIs that had been caught and not members of a GLO!

[Rudey]

We're lucky it happened in the South. I don't care if it offends Southerners but the country has just come to expect these types of things from them. Now if it happened in NYC, shiznit would hit the fan.

-Rudey

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by jharb
I just wish it had been GDIs that had been caught and not members of a GLO!

It wasn't just a GLO, it was my fraternity! Phi Psi did not expand in the South for over 8 decades, except for Vanderbilt, Duke and dormant chapters lost to the Civil War, until my chapter originally chartered at FSU in 1962. We've had a tough time penetrating the South, but we have made slow and continual progress. Some of our once struggling and new chapters at large southern state universities, like FSU and LSU, are not so new and doing quite well now. Then this happens. 3 Phi Psis eat a rabid racoon at the University of Georgia. YEE HAW!!! The South shall rise again, and all that BS.

[ThetaPrincess24]

I know i shouldnt........I really shouldnt..........but when i read this initially I couldnt help but to laugh at fellow southerners.......I'm sorry the racoon died, but animal control wouldve killed it anyway and after testing to be positive it had rabies, they'd have burned it too. Now I do wonder about the mental state of the guys who thought it would be okay to eat a rabies infested racoon.......

I wont mention the name, but there is one fraternity at UK that is known for shooting possums (rabid or not) when they come around their fraternity house (it's off campus enough not to draw too much attention). I dont know what they do with the possums afterwards, but I know they are not skinned or eaten, my guess is thrown in the dumpster.

[Sigma Sage]

Originally posted by Rudey
We're lucky it happened in the South. I don't care if it offends Southerners but the country has just come to expect these types of things from them. Now if it happened in NYC, shiznit would hit the fan.

-Rudey

Are you kidding me? First of all, I was born in Chicago, where people hunt rats in the streets with a .22 for fun. I have now lived in the south for the past 20 years and can tell you this is not a normal situation. My fraternity house is actually across the street from the Phi Psi house and is comprised of really good men. Three of them are obviously not too bright, but everyone cannot be a rocket scientist. As for your comment that the country comes to expect this from the South is just plain ignorant. That is like saying Southerners expect all Northerners to be Rude, mannerless, belong to a gang, and shoot dice in an alleyway every Friday night. Absolute nonsense.

[aopinthesky]

Originally posted by Rudey
We're lucky it happened in the South. I don't care if it offends Southerners but the country has just come to expect these types of things from them. Now if it happened in NYC, shiznit would hit the fan.

-Rudey

While I have noted that you do not much care WHO you offend as long as you get to put your .02 cents in about pretty much everything, whether or not you know what you are talking about, this Southerner IS offended. Your post shows your incredible ignorance and bad manners - once again.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by aopinthesky
While I have noted that you do not much care WHO you offend as long as you get to put your .02 cents in about pretty much everything, whether or not you know what you are talking about, this Southerner IS offended. Your post shows your incredible ignorance and bad manners - once again.

Good manners involves you telling people they don't know what they're talking about and that they're ignorant?

-Rudey
--Lady, go eat a coon and shutup.

[AXJules]

Originally posted by Sigma Sage
Are you kidding me? First of all, I was born in Chicago, where people hunt rats in the streets with a .22 for fun.

Um......what?? I'm not even going to attempt to argue with that except to say that it's totally false. You're not the only person around here from Chicago.

You say Rudey's post was ignorant/prejudicial, but I guess I don't see the difference between that and making such a sweeping generalization.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by Sigma Sage
Are you kidding me? First of all, I was born in Chicago, where people hunt rats in the streets with a .22 for fun. I have now lived in the south for the past 20 years and can tell you this is not a normal situation. My fraternity house is actually across the street from the Phi Psi house and is comprised of really good men. Three of them are obviously not too bright, but everyone cannot be a rocket scientist. As for your comment that the country comes to expect this from the South is just plain ignorant. That is like saying Southerners expect all Northerners to be Rude, mannerless, belong to a gang, and shoot dice in an alleyway every Friday night. Absolute nonsense.

I didn't see your post. Regardless I'm not from the projects of South Chicago where you "shoot rats for fun". Generally a lot of those people were raised by Southern families who moves up there.

-Rudey
--You can talk about bad manners and gangs and we'll talk about incest with your pah and eating raccoons.

[Sigma Sage]

Originally posted by Rudey
I didn't see your post. Regardless I'm not from the projects of South Chicago where you "shoot rats for fun". Generally a lot of those people were raised by Southern families who moves up there.

-Rudey
--You can talk about bad manners and gangs and we'll talk about incest with your pah and eating raccoons.

No one moves from the South to the North.