[bk1000]

“Not guilty! And I’ll buy that man another can of gasoline.”

Why would anyone advocate, or in your case, celebrate the torture of an animal? (Yes, there are raccoons where I live.) Your post reeks of evil. I don’t know you or perhaps I would express myself in greater detail. Perhaps you are just trying to be clever or funny. If so, you have failed miserably. This is the cruellest post I have ever read on FR. Go back to DU where you belong.

[Vigilanteman]

Actually, I'm a softie when it comes to even marginally useful living things. I won't even kill spiders, save in rare circumstances, but I've seen the damage raccoons can do. They are vermin, rabid and nasty. And I don't advocate burning them alive because of the damage it can do to the live trap and the waste of gasoline.

My sympathies are with the 88 year old man here, even if it would have been better to drown the varmint.