ok, so last night i was forced to scream and run like a little girl.

[vash]

i'm an idiot. i was watching TV, while my wife was making a list of excuses to try to get out of jury duty.

i hear bumping, scraping and tiny screams coming from the rooftop. i grab a stinger flashlight..and against my better judgement, and all the data collected from every horror film i have ever watched..i go to investigate.

i go out into the backyard and darkness in my pajamas. i shine the light up on my rooftop and there are six raccoon fighting up on the roof!! the light hits them and they scatter. three of them are wrapped up in a tussel and they roll off the roof into the backyard with me. i swear they headed straight for me. the other 3 jumped onto a wooden fence, i think they tried to flank me. i bolted. i split the coons like a running back, and dove into the door just as my wife walks into the backroom. i do not think she saw anything.

the coons run away, squeeking..yes squeeking. they sounded like baby pigs crying. i've been experimenting with salting and curing fish. i think my lastest "experiment" attracted the entire hood of coons. i may toss my fish into the neighbor's garbage can when i get home.

maybe it's fine that i dont live in the country..like souk. hahah.

[audiman08]

no worries...I almost picked up an Opossum once thinking it was a cat...it didn't squeek, it just looked at me like I was crazy...it was in the country, it was dark, and I'm a city kid. I don't like raccoons either.

[Targa Me]

"i may toss my fish into the neighbor's garbage can when i get home." LOL!

[MotoSook]

maybe it's fine that i dont live in the country..like souk. hahah

I'm always armed!


Your SWAT bro should know how easily his little sister gets scared

Actually, at the old house we had a raccoon problem. A few young ones liked to fight under my old deck. I had a 4' long steel pipe handy one night and I surprised them while they were on the deck. One ended up in the garbage can, one hobbled off toward the neighbors, the third got away untouched. They never came back to the deck More recently, I almost got a big fat one with my .22 and some CB Longs in the midddle of the night. Couldn't see the fucher well enough to hit him from the back door after he ran toward the fence.

[Rikao4]

the coons ran away, laughing..yes laughing ..

Rika

[Gogar]

Make sure those 'coons aren't shacking up in your attic. PITA to make them go away.

[vash]

good point souk..if i lived in the country..i would be patching bullet holes in my rooftop today.

i forget how huge a racoon can get. huge!

[MotoSook]

i forget how huge a racoon can get. huge!

Chris Streit told me about how he got scare by a racoon once...over the years, the raccoon has grown in size. I think it's become a bear now. LOL!

[M.D. Holloway]

they weren't fight'n, those coons were in a ...what do you kids call it these days? oh ya a F*** fest! Dude, you broke up a Racoon orgy!!!

[Tobra]

No wonder they were so mad.

Racoons and 'possums are tough little buggers.


One question Vash, do you have a cat? Apparently racoons find them quite tasty.

[Rikao4]

Elvis..a recent wood trail find..
released back into the wild..

Rika

[McLovin]

Darn. I thought you were going to find foot tall aliens in metallic spacesuits, which you kick down, then a 6 foot saucer UFO, which you destroy with your broom, only to find the UFO says "U.S. AIRFORCE Space Probe No. 1" on it.

That would have been freaky.

But your story is good too.

[Green 912]

^I remember that one from when I was little kid. ^ Scared the crap out of me back then. Saw it years later and it did not have quite the same effect.

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by McLovin

Darn. I thought you were going to find foot tall aliens in metallic spacesuits, which you kick down, then a 6 foot saucer UFO, which you destroy with your broom, only to find the UFO says "U.S. AIRFORCE Space Probe No. 1" on it.

That would have been freaky.

But your story is good too.

Wait, wouldn't vash then have to be an ad agency exec who's married to a witch?

[Burnin' oil]

"ok, so last night i was forced to scream and run like a little girl." Hmmmm, this must be a Vash thread - BINGO

[Decolliber]

Rural Iowa. My 140 lb. St Bernard caught a raccoon that kept coming up on to the back deck. It shimmied down the railing, raced for a tree, but she caught him. She grabbed Rocky by the scruff of his neck and swung him round and round in a circle, shaking him vigorously the whole time. Somehow Rocky escaped from her, but he never returned.

[KaptKaos]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

Elvis..a recent wood trail find..
released back into the wild..

Rika

Momma coons don't take kindly to tampered babies.

Years ago, when I was just married, the wife and I were renting an apartment in an old Victorian house. 3rd floor. The house had been fitted with fire escapes to allow multi-tenant.

Wife calls me to the window by the fire escape to show me something "so cute." There sat a raccoon that the little misses had put a small bowl of cat food out for.

First, I laughed my ass off. Second, I grabbed the bowl and proceeded to use a lighter and hairspray flame thrower to scare that bugger off the escape.

I admonished the misses about proper care and treatment of woodland creatures, particularly ones that can carry rabies.

[targa911S]

careful they carry rabies.

[911pcars]

There's an Army saying: "If it doesn't move, paint it."

In this thread, one could say, "If it moves and it's not homo sapien, shoot it."

Do all wild, furry animals carry rabies? If not, then why shoot wild, furry animals if not to eat them? No other options?

Sherwood

[lowyder993s]

Originally Posted by Burnin' oil

"ok, so last night i was forced to scream and run like a little girl." Hmmmm, this must be a Vash thread - BINGO

Yup...got it right also.