Posted on 11/14/2007 4:33:30 AM PST by laotzu
HUNTSVILLE, Ark. — A high school teacher killed a raccoon with a nail gun after discovering the planned subject of a skinning demonstration was alive.
Superintendent Alvin Lievsay said a student's parent promised to bring in a raccoon for the exercise, but surprised teacher Jerick Hutchinson by bringing the animal in a live trap. Lievsay said Hutchinson, "who used to work in a slaughter house," took the animal outside to the back of his truck Friday and shot it with the nail gun. Lievsay said no students witnessed the raccoon's death.
"He used the nail gun to, as they say, to dispatch the animal," Lievsay said. "It wasn't like he held a nail gun against the head of a cute little animal in front of the class."
Hutchinson used the dead raccoon to demonstrate how to skin the animal and to examine the contents of its stomach. Lievsay said only one student asked not to attend the skinning.
Lievsay said officials at Huntsville High School later talked with Hutchinson and told him not to kill animals on school grounds. The superintendent said Hutchinson, one of two agriculture teachers at the school about 30 miles east of Fayetteville, also would provide more detailed lesson plans.
"He does a great job. The kids love him," Lievsay said.
Take one coon. Be sure it is dead or have a nailgun handy.
Skin, pick all fat off. This will take some time, but will be better later.
Salt and pepper, stack sweet ‘taters around the meat, splash liberally with Italian Salad dressing.
Bake at 350 until done to the bone.
Serve. Good eating on a coon.
“HUNTSVILLE, Ark. “
I’m surprised; I expected this to have happened in Berkeley, CA.
A seven course dinner coming up! A ‘coon and six pack!
Arkansas students get lessons in SKINNING animals. At last, a school that teaches something useful, hehehehehe!
Coon Skinnin’ 101, wish they would have had that when I was in school.
Hahahaha!
What size nail does one use to dispatch a raccoon? An 8d finish nail? 16d common? Galvanized or steel?
Posted last night:
My son came home and all he could talk about was how they butchered a hog, they saw the hog alive, then a couple of minutes later it was hanging upside down while being skinned and gutted. It was all he could talk about, that one lesson will probably stick with him for the rest of his life I think.
A good lesson.
Meat does not originate on a foam tray in plastic wrap in a grocery store refrigerated case, no matter how many people think that is the way it works.
Lol!
Great pic!
WHAT!! Get OUTTA HERE...REALLY!!
Looks like some nice curly maple on Daniel’s rifle.
probably lead nails from Cina....oh the horror
How I wish this guy was my children’s teacher. My kids think chicken has plastic skin.
LOL!
We did that as a way of life as a kid.............Did they scald the hog, after killing of course, to make it easier to remove the hair by hand?.......I remember my mother-in-law once made a mistake when she went to gut the hog that was hanging up and accidentaly went too deep with the knife and she pierced the intestines and stomach. They were under some pressure and literally exploded all over her.........
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