[Jim from C-Town]

I understand that this might be a tasteless and even a racist prank, but to make a Federal Case out of it, LITTERALLY! You have got to be kidding?!

Had MOST people found a dead raccoon, even one hanging from a noose on their porch, a knife to cut it down and a large plastic garbage bag to get rid of it would have been enough. i am almost certain a call to the local authorities would NOT have occurred. Much less one to the DOJ.

[Slings and Arrows]

Had MOST people found a dead raccoon, even one hanging from a noose on their porch, a knife to cut it down and a large plastic garbage bag to get rid of it would have been enough.

I respectfully disagree. I would call the cops - not because I felt that my civil rights were violated, but because I would suspect that anyone who commit such an act wasn't playing with a full deck. To bring in the Feds, though, defies credulity.