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West Harlem Residents Are Fed Up With ‘Aggressive’ Raccoons Terrorizing Neighborhood
CBS New York ^ | December 18, 2014

Posted on 12/20/2014 4:53:23 AM PST by Gamecock

West Harlem residents say a posse of raccoons has taken over their neighborhoods and in some cases even broken into their homes.

“These things think they live here and they actually walk in if you leave an opening,” said resident Lauren Flanigan.

Pictures from residents showed a raccoon making itself comfortable on the patio of a West Harlem home, and even coming up to the door. And that raccoon was not alone, residents said.

“They came in the kitchen, and they’re not that friendly, and they also pushed the window screens in,” Flanigan told CBS2’s Tracee Carrasco.

“They climb over the fences to the next backyard and they keep going from backyard to backyard, so that’s why it’s not one homeowner’s problem. It’s everybody’s problem,” Maria Freeman said.

Residents complained that the raccoons wreak havoc in the streets daily, and believe they make the trek from Central Park. They want the city to do something because the problem is only getting worse.

“These raccoons don’t behave normally. They’re out during the day time when they should be sleeping. They are not afraid of humans. They’re aggressive,” Flanigan said.

Residents are now asking the city to step in and pay for a trap-and-release service to get rid of the raccoons before mating season starts in January.

In a statement the city said they are “staunchly committed to addressing all constituent requests from New Yorkers across the five boroughs, including animal related complaints and inquiries.”

Residents say help can’t come soon enough.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: billclinton; coons; raccoons; varmints
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To: Popman

People leaving dog food out for their dogs and feeding feral cats or having food in the kitchen and a pet door , or not tying down their trash can lids... coons figure out how to get those goodies real quick. There’s more coons in cities than you’ll see in the woods.


21 posted on 12/20/2014 5:18:37 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa
People leaving dog food out for their dogs and feeding feral cats or having food in the kitchen and a pet door , or not tying down their trash can lids... coons figure out how to get those goodies real quick.

We have rules around here for feeding the feral cats. Cats get first dibs on supper. Coons have to wait. Works out fine.

22 posted on 12/20/2014 5:22:02 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Diogenesis
Could this be a euphemism for “criminal illegal aliens”.

That was my first though too, that this was parody and they were talking about some group of humans behaving the same way.
I was thinking Feral Yutes.

23 posted on 12/20/2014 5:22:53 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Popman

The Bronx parks and queens parks have plenty. It seems raccoons take trips on open bed and not secured box trucks with good eats in them. Also during the wee hours the bridges are safer to negotiate for the little buggers


24 posted on 12/20/2014 5:23:06 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Gamecock

The residents’ complaint is racist. Overrun with ‘coons, harumph.


25 posted on 12/20/2014 5:26:41 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Gamecock
"Aggressive Racoons"


26 posted on 12/20/2014 5:28:06 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: Liberty Valance

LOL! That’s downright addictive. What a hoot! B^)


27 posted on 12/20/2014 5:30:10 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Are Burmese Pythons winter hardy?


28 posted on 12/20/2014 5:34:22 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Gamecock

Agressive raccoons!

29 posted on 12/20/2014 5:35:54 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Gamecock

If the Racoons are successful, wait for the Skunks to follow.


30 posted on 12/20/2014 5:36:46 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Gamecock

“Heavily armed Harlem residents harassed by aggressive small furry creatures”.

Sorry—this just doesn’t compute.


31 posted on 12/20/2014 5:37:07 AM PST by Flintlock (Our soap box is finished, the ballot box didn't work--now all that's left is the BULLET box.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

FWIW I remember Grandpa going out raccoon hunting at night with 2-3 ‘coon dogs, and the pelts being stretched out on plywood forms in the rafters in the detached garage. This was 50 years ago in rural SE Michigan not far from Toledo.


32 posted on 12/20/2014 5:38:28 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Gamecock


33 posted on 12/20/2014 5:44:10 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: FreedomPoster
raccoon hunting at night with 2-3 ‘coon dogs,

My uncles in northern Michigan were avid coon and bear hunters with their dogs. Fortunately one of them was a vet because it was inevitable that one or more of the dogs would get torn up by the coon or bear......

34 posted on 12/20/2014 5:45:48 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (“We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

They do fine indoors!


35 posted on 12/20/2014 5:50:02 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Popman
I wonder where they came from.... Harlem isn't rural...

All it would take is two, and perhaps five years' worth of breeding in abandoned buildings etc. Precisely because Harlem isn't rural, they would have no natural enemies.

36 posted on 12/20/2014 5:53:33 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Gamecock

Just shoot them and be done with it.


37 posted on 12/20/2014 5:54:24 AM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: Gamecock

Sound rabid to me.

Shoot them.


38 posted on 12/20/2014 5:54:46 AM PST by Principled (Government Slowdown using the budget process!)
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To: Gamecock

But are they causing Global Warming, like beavers and arctic ground squirrels?


39 posted on 12/20/2014 5:57:05 AM PST by Tax-chick (Remember Malmedy!)
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To: chajin

Move over NY rats-—there’s a new gang in town and higher up on the rodent pecking chain.


40 posted on 12/20/2014 5:59:35 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyrannye dontchyaknow.)
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