Something is rotten in the state of Denmark concerning this news story.

[chickengeorgeto]

OK, I have often advocated drowning trapped raccoons as a quiet and unobtrusive method of disposal, but I didn't mean for you to do it like this young lady did.

http://www.newsweek.com/raccoon-fig...ign=rss-related&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news

BTW, it has not been established that this coon was a rabid coon, perhaps he or she had just been relocated to this park by a Maine BYC keeper and Ralph Raccoon had it in for the first human it saw.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

I live in the country so am more of a fan of .22lr to the head quick and clean. But ouch that is one mean coon.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I live in the country so am more of a fan of .22lr to the head quick and clean. But ouch that is one mean coon.

I know that rabid animals are prone to biting but did this coon bite because its victim wasn't petting it like the coon wanted to be petted?

 

[Sara Ranch]

Wow.

Maybe it was the raccoon from my area? The one that I saw walking upright across the road carrying a large Dunkin' Donuts coffee cup? Maybe he was still on a caffeine high? Or on a caffeine withdrawal and wanted that young lady to help him?

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The story was written to be inflammatory - stating things as facts when those things were not established or corroborated. Was the raccoon rabid? Did the lady invite contact? Try to pet it? And why did her dad go back for the raccoon and not her cell phone?

For the young lady's sake, I hope the raccoon was not rabid.

For the raccoons death, I hope he was rabid so it was not a senseless death.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

There sure is a lot missing to that overly dramatised tale.
Jogging barefoot?
Racoon bit her thumb while she was dancing around it?
Stephen King's from Maine?

Much doesn't make sense in the telling though Stephen is from Maine making the Pet Sematary reference the easiest part to swallow.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Actually it has been established the raccoon was rabid. That’s why the father was more interested in the raccoon than the phone, to get it tested for rabies. He was more interested in his daughter than the phone. By the time the testing was complete though she had already started her series of rabies shots.

The part I have trouble believing is that she was able to drown it in a puddle. How deep was that puddle? How big? I could see her drowning it in a pond or a deep stream maybe, but a puddle? I trap and drown raccoons a lot, but they stay in the trap during that process. I would hate to try to drown one in a pond with my bare hands. I've seen those teeth and claws up close. If she was able to keep her head with a raccoon clamped onto her thumb and come up with and execute a plan that worked more power to her.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Dancing barefoot with a rabid racoon...Yeah, I'd swing to that.