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.
Rocky Racoon, checked into his room, only to find Gideons Bible.
——All it would take is two, -——
Don’t tell that to he gay raccoons...
You know they hate those “breeder” coons...
/ Sarcasm...
‘trap-and-release’? I thought they wanted to get rid of them? Or is this going to be just another government job?
social justice...
It seems to me from the names in the article that this is a gentrified liberal enclave. I would think that the coons would be welcomed because they were there before the libs
took over. The coons are just exercising their eminent domain on the area and the righteous libs won’t give it back.
Quite a bit of irony in this story that will remain unspoken...
‘...Do NOT leave rat poison where raccoons can get at it...”
Hehehe! My daughter who lives in Harlem just blocks from West Harlem will definitely never under any circumstances leave out any rat poison if the raccoons migrate a few blocks further east. (She lives on the the third floor so is very unlikely to have a problem.)
Exactly what I was thinking.
Yup. First sign is that they are out in the daytime.
An old coot who we hired to trap some beaver out of our lake was the county “go to” guy for coons. I’m friends with one of his sons, awhile after his dads passing he laughed and told the wife and I what his old man was up to.
He would go into the nicer subdivisions and trap annoying coons for a fee, then release them near another nice subdivision across town, the old fart had a real scam going around the entire county.
He said his dad probably caught this one same old coon with a bobbed tail at least 10 times over the years...
Finally a use for all those crazed pit bulls that ghetto dwellers like.
Racoon will tear them dogs up.
(Makes me think of the Jerry Clower coon huntin story.)
What they need is about a dozen large sacks of dry cat food. Raccoons *hate* dried cat food.
Just to be clear, there’s absolutely nothing humorous about this topic.
LOL!
Back in the summer of 2006, I was transferred back to my company's big manufacturing plant on Detroit's east side. There was a cat that kept coming onto my deck in the middle of the night causing my cat to go crazy, trying to fight it thru the back doorwall.
Well, for about a week I kept trying to catch it with my hav-a-heart live trap but all I caught was 2 possum and 2 coons. So what I did was throw the trap into my trunk and on the way into work, I let them go about a block away from the plant.....LOL!
Never caught or heard the cat again...........
Glemie Dean from Detroit has the answer, but before you buy, Look for the Paw.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20090402/METRO08/904020395
I grew up in Brighton, we had 10 acres across the road from Kensington Metropark’s nature study area. Everybody and their brothers uncle dropped their pests over there, the population of coons and possums per acre is higher than anywhere in the state I think.
(Grampa owned 40 acres that bordered it across from us, we also had the best deer hunting land in lower Michigan as well thanks to the park’s woods and golf course... :-)
Perfect description of a weekend in Chicago.
Why? Can they sing, “On the radio! Whoa-oh-oh-oh, on the radio!”
(Oh, that was Branigan, not Flanigan.)
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