Posted on 08/20/2018 7:05:14 AM PDT by Gamecock
PALM BAY, Fla. - An 88-year-old man posted a $2,000 bond and walked out of the Brevard County Jail on Friday, after being accused of burning a raccoon he had trapped.
His first time in jail, Ezra James said he feared the raccoon would bite him and give him rabies. He said he also planned to kill the raccoon for eating mangos in his yard.
"I throw some gasoline on him and I light a match," James said.
Moments later, as the raccoon burned alive, a neighbor called 911, James said.
James called that neighbor a "wicked woman."
"My business is my business. I don't take my business to strangers," said James. He also said he wouldn't apologize to some disturbed neighbors.
James said he did not know authorities would have humanely euthanized the raccoon.
Palm Bay police said an officer had to shoot the raccoon to put it out of its misery.
James will have some explaining to do to neighbors who thought he was a nice guy.
"Maybe the man is losing it to do something like that," Ana DeJesus said.
"I can't stand what people do to animals anymore. They need to live too," Nancy Gill said.
James rode a taxi home Friday from the county jail. His next court date is not scheduled yet.
Are you sick?
If you have a nuisance bear, I strongly suggest you contact the Game Commission and ask them to trap the bear and remove it. It doesn’t cost a thing and, in the event you’re concerned, may save the bear’s life.
Your biggest challenge isn’t the bear wanting to eat you, it’s bumping into the bear in the dark or otherwise surprising it while it’s raiding your trash.
Nope, but sometimes my humor is.
A bit too subtle this time, I guess.
“Chicken make rousy housepet...” - SNL, or was it SCTV?
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SNL, although it doesn’t do anything for me. But you can reminisce:
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ching-chang-in-love/n9552
Soak his arm in gasoline then set it on fire just to let him know what the animal suffered thru.
Either a bullet to the head or carbon monoxide from a car exhaust pipe would have been a more humane way to dispose of the animal if not just transporting it 10 miles or more away from his house and just releasing it........
If you chose to die, would you prefer to being doused with gasoline and set on fire?
As I posted, the end result is the same.
You’re inferring something that I did not post.
Please pay attention...snarky personal attacks are not welcomed.
Well, if they need to eat, they should get a real job, like the rest of us breadwinners.
Sadly, the link I had to the original story is no longer valid.
NB:https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/04/raccoon_hunter_rising_star_gle.html
Mark
When I used to go trout fishing, before cleaning the fish, I'd hold it by the tail and swing it down, hitting its head on a rock, stunning or killing the fish before cleaning it.
Mark
They’ll find their way back any distance under 20 miles.
They just wiped out all but my last hen, too. At first I couldn’t figure out how they did it and thought that maybe a hen didn’t go in to roost before I closed up. After this occurred again and again it was undeniable that they were getting picked off inside the henhouse. I looked for signs of digging as a dog had dug in one time before. I examined all the wire and made sure the sideboards were tight. The roof seemed tight too. Then one night I caught the coons in action. They had found a way to squeeze through two layered sheets of corrugated plastic roofing and when the light hit them one was halfway out with a chicken in its mouth and the other was panicking because the first was in its way. I beat the snot out of coon 2 with a three prong rake but coon 1 had made it out and up into a tree too thick to flashlight him.
My duck pen has proven to be coon proof and the ducks are safe in the daytime out on the pond, but the chickens are more vulnerable as the coons learn quickly to come out in broad daylight if they can’t get into the pen at night and ambush hens as they range. I used to have a dog that prevented this but after a few weeks they figured out the dog was long gone.
They keep coming back until they have found a way to kill everything you have. The small ones can reach through 1 by 1/2 inch wire....and grab a roosting bird, then they pull off parts of the screaming bird until they have gotten everything but the skull out of the cage or pen. They leave the skull rather clean even through the wire.
A gang of three “baby” coons pulled the wing off a quaker parrot before I got to it- bird survived after stitching it up but all I found of its mate was the head.
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