Posted on 06/13/2018 3:37:13 AM PDT by C19fan
A raccoon who captured the nation’s attention by climbing 20 stories up the side of a skyscraper in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Tuesday reached the roof of the building overnight to the delight of the internet. Tim Nelson of Minnesota Public Radio, who has been covering the high-altitude drama, tweeted the news just after 3:45 a.m. Eastern time.
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Bo pix no clix certainly not for Huffpoo
Now what - he base jumps down?
You can follow the msn link, which is not quite as odious.
Raccoons are complete vermin... As much as I love animals, I can’t stand the pests.
Animal control shoots him so he doesnt fall and hurt himself
Very atypical raccoon behavior - probably has rabies
I know what you mean, but...speaking for myself, I cannot help but admire something in Raccoons.
I don’t know what it is...their bold thievery, their ability to survive (except when crossing roads) but something about them appeals to me.
They just can’t cross roadways...like squirrels.
When God created squirrels, I have long thought that he used the angels to help him out, because he was so busy.
He asked angels to do things like design the color palette for rainbows...put the horn on the rhino, the stripes on a tiger, and the trunk on an elephant.
The angels helped him out with these tasks, and did a stellar job, except for one. There was one good-hearted angel, who was generally incompetent. The other angels liked him, and implored God to allow him to take on a project, so God allowed him to design the road crossing algorithm for squirrels.
Well, that is the cross that squirrels must bear on their short time on earth...crossing roads for them is as predictable as flipping a coin.
Heads, you make it. Tails, you get squished by an oxcart or a car, and have the opportunity to discuss the faults in the program with that angel.
That same road-crossing algorithm was probably used to save time in armadillos, possums, and...raccoons!
Anything to take the Sumit Success off of the front page!
“I am NOT a raccoon!”
It looks thirsty.
You would be too.
If you had rabies.
I think you nailed it.
Seeing images of the WTC makes me sad, and then it makes me mad.
I worked in NYC around 9/11. I walked by the Twin Towers often. I loved them.
Post-9/11 when I was working near Ground Zero, I walked to see "the pit" (as it was called). As I got closer, EVERY PERSON walking toward me/away from the pit was either crying, had a look of horror or sorrow on their face, or they looked furious...some had a mix of all these emotions on their face. Every person looked that way...black, white, Hispanic, whatever.
When I got there, I called Mrs DoodleBob and said "they're gone....they're just gone." I can't explain the vast emptiness I saw AND felt. My words didn't do it justice.
Walking back to the office, I was one of the guys who looked furious.
Although I work in Houston, my company used to be based in the WTC.
I’m the librarian. I open up books and there’s oftentimes a stamp that says “property of (company) WTC, 106th floor”.
It gets to me every time.
I school the young engineers here about it; they have no idea.
I heard on the local Minneapolis news a snowflake say that he was “hoping and praying that the raccoon made it safely”
Whatever go and “pray” for a raccoon...
I wonder if the local press/news would ever quote somebody saying I was hoping and praying for President Trump and a successful summit with NORK?
No such thing as a rhinoceros. It’s a chubby Unicorn!
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