Posted on 06/12/2018 7:07:14 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Forget Spider-Man. St. Paul has Spider-Raccoon.
On Tuesday, a mottled brown raccoon, originally stranded on a downtown office building ledge on 7th Street, proceeded to escape to the roof of the two-story building, then climbed another 20 stories up the side of the nearby UBS tower, as people gathered on the street below The raccoon's quest became kind of a celebrity cause by late afternoon.
Hollywood director James Gunn, whose movie "Guardians of the Galaxy" featured a hero raccoon, offered to donate $1,000 to charity in the name of "anyone who saves this raccoon. I can't handle this. Poor dude."
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I had a coonskin hat as a kid.
Is he related to the Black Panther?
I hope he makes it to the roof and cashes in on the cat food.
I never knew just WHERE the internet was. Probably been on top of that skyscraper all along. And now that it’s been captured by a raccoon, all the news will be slanted towards a raccoon’s point of view.
It may have rabies. All that activity during the daytime?
The sensible thing would be for someone to shoot it.
Dat be racisssss
To prove to the raccoon it could be done...
Old Minnesota joke...
I hope someone has some kind of rescue plan.
And I just assumed the coon was a close pal of Alex Honnold? Another notorious free solo climber.
He is not looking all that happy.
And he is definitely not fat and round like the ones in my neck of the woods.
Now that you mention it, that may be why my internet service was so slow?
After that raccoon captured it, the internet was using all of its resources to escape?
A rabid Racci would not have enough strength/endurance to make that climb. Somebody open a can of tuna for that little huy! And give him some fresh water. Then give him a few oatmeal cookies ... my wild coons that ring my doorbell like oatmeal cookies.
Like someone else just said, it probably has rabies. Our property crawls with them at night as they are nocturnal. We live in the woods where all sorts of critters live, and have never seen one in the daytime. Occasionally a nocturnal skunk, never a coon.
It does not even look healthy. It needs to be put down.
I had an emaciated Racoon Mama show up one June day at four in the afternoon. She was starving because she had five babies, which she brought to my feeding after they got old enough. That little mother became a regular visitor and she did not have rabies, as the next two litters she parented attest. One from her second litter is right now ringing the ‘doorbell’ to be given a handout!
Maybe he can get a job putting up decorations.
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