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June 13, 2018
"This raccoon is unifying all of Minnesota."
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James Lileks, today's The Bleat.
There’s so much in this little story. I mean, it’s just a raccoon up a very, very tall tree. But the reasons this went global are fascinating. For starters, there’s this:
Things are so bad we can all unite around wishing the best for a creature in peril.
Or:
Things are so good we have copious excess emotion to expend on a creature in peril, whose situation is known to us only because of the vast technological miracles we take for granted.
Take your pick. Or choose your percentage of each.
Trump should invite him to the White House before he is released in the wild to MAGA other raccoons
That's the wrong clip, unless the raccoon took hostages.
And he's doing it from Orlando, Florida! What a determined little critter.
FYI - we probably shouldn't give guns to raccoons.
The video on the post is about the multiple murder in Orlando.
There was a somewhat similar case in Phoenix a week ago. Four people were killed by an angry ex-husband.
Why do educated black women choose such violent men?
Domestic dispute calls are probably the most dangerous calls police make. I saw lots of consequences at County Hospital years ago.
I hate raccoons they are aggressive vicious creatures.
"That's the wrong clip, unless the raccoon took hostages."
LOL. It automatically advanced to another video and I copied the code from that. Fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out humorously!
we can all unite around wishing the best for a creature in peril.
What? After months and months of carefully planning the route and the hours of exhausting free climb you fuckers came along and wrecked it!
Unbelievable...
Lileks sez -
"USB’s ...primary tenant is a Swiss money firm. ...
... and the boss wants to know why they’re getting dragged and hammered on Twitter because they’re not rescuing a nocturnal scavenger in this city, what, St. Paul? Where is that? By Mindianapolis in Minnekota or some state?"
Ohio would have to change its law. Here you can't release a trapped raccoon elsewhere. Killing it is the only option.
Apparently they're considered to be weeds.
It’s like shark watch.
Racoons are the one critter I will swerve to hit.
Trump is the raccoon.
Take that, Messner.
"How can anyone root against a small furry creature?" Over a course of a couple years, a raccoon chewed its way into my roof, causing leaking after every snowfall melt. $10,000 roof repairs later, I bought a trap and have successfully caught and removed every raccoon I hear on the roof (usually February) to... a farm up in the mountains where they all live happily.
Wait until they find out the raccoon voted for Trump.
Yes, raccoons can be a problem but this little guy deserves our respect. Free climbing, too! Well, not counting his crampons...
I love raccoons. Wh? don't ?o?? These bea?tif?l & intelligent creat?res are killed with imp?nit? by heartless h?nters wherever the? are fo?nd. Twent? ?ears in prison is not too harsh a sentence for barbaro?s h?nters. Don't ?o? agree?
The raccoon needs a psyche evaluation. What an idiot.
Every few years, the squirrels manage to get in my dad's attic at the same corner, despite all attempts to stop them. They must pass the preference down the generations somehow. Fortunately, the wiring is old and metal-sheathed, since they pull off the plastic insulation on newer wiring.
"Yes, raccoons can be a problem but this little guy deserves our respect. Free climbing, too! Well, not counting his crampons..."
The fault, dear mockturtle, is not in raccoons,
But in yourself, that you piteously lack understanding and empathy for other species. At your advanced age, you are tragically irredeemable. So, shut your snapping turtle beak!
Thanks for pointing it out humorously!
Sorry I wasn't humorous but I had just read about the man who murdered the four child hostages before killing himself.
Climbing up is easier for animals than climbing down. Once he got past floor one, down was probably never an option.
Raccoons are tough. Note that the raccoon was the only member of the Gaurdians of the Galaxy team to survive Thanos.
I figured that the raccoon was just seeking attention in order to get a summit meeting with President Trump.
St Paul sits on a lazy S bend of the Mississippi river. Raccoons abound there. They are a goddam nuisance.
A lot of people were wondering if the raccoon might be ill, perhaps rabid, to be out in the daytime like that. I hope they give her a full checkup before releasing her to the wild.
I actually saw a raccoon in my back yard a couple of days ago, wandering into the bushes. Yes, in the daytime. I also saw a coyote about 4 a.m. when I was driving to work, less than two miles up the road. Lots of wildlife around here!
"St Paul sits on a lazy S bend of the Mississippi river. Raccoons abound there. They are a goddam nuisance."
You are hating right-wing vermin - a goddamn Trump-inspired troll. I love raccoons. Trump is a catastrophe. How dare you speak ill of an animal superior to you in every way.
Sorry, but raccoons are assholes.
"Wait until they find out the raccoon voted for Trump."
Winner!
Getting to the roof, the raccoon called down: "Yippee-ki-yay, mother*ckers!"
Now somewhere in the tall buildings of Minneapolis
There lived a young boar named Rocky Raccoon...
C'mon Rocky boy!
C'mon Rocky boy!
Don't you know?
Scaling the outside wall of a skyscraper and wearing the raccoon mask is essential to "always keep the element of surprise on our side".
"This raccoon is unifying all of Minnesota."
Send it to all of Korea.
@Ralph L, there are two kinds of exterminators. One kind kills the squirrels and comes back next year to do it again, and the year after that, and the year after that, and ...
We lucked into a guy who figured out how they were getting in, trapped them in havaheart traps, and sealed all the possible openings with metal.
“Sorry I wasn't humorous but I had just read about the man who murdered the four child hostages before killing himself.”
I’m sorry to have expressed my appreciation for humor in the context of murder (which I had not noticed).
Minny-sota is full of Coons.
But not so many Coon-asses.
That ain't no raccoon... that's ROCKET!! Guardians of the Galaxy!
Wait till Trumpit discovers that racoons catch and eat other cute animals, including puppies. What to do. What to do.
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