This is awesome! At a major warehouse fire on Sunday the @SouthBendFire Department set up ladders so two raccoons could escaped the burning building. Glad everybody make it out okay, including the raccoons!
(??: Paul Bierwagen) pic.twitter.com/DbGyB1joNi
— Max Lewis (@MaxLewisTV) August 5, 2019
I’m glad the little guys escaped safely, but if you’ve ever lost power due to a coon (or squirrel) taking down a transformer, you’ll get the joke…
Where were the raccoons when the fire started.
Extremely suspicious conduct by the raccoons. pic.twitter.com/iD7NHrjJRD
— Jeff Konrad (@konrad_jeff) August 6, 2019
trollhattan
Great, now those thieving fat bastards understand ladder technology!
Another Scott
Clever of the firemen to stack the ladders like that. I’d never seen that before.
Glad the little monsters got out, also too.
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
Trio of stories which caught the visual orbs.
1. Time to rewrite the texts?
2. Calgary Zoo patches broken penguin egg, buying time for premature chick
AFAIK, no duct tape involved. ;)
3. New tricks for the dog days of August.
catclub
@NotMax: The story that caught my eye was the ‘global warming is a thing’ in many parts of the US, but not the deep south. I live there and would have thought it has come here, too.
A Ghost To Most
Since racoons have opposable thumbs and smarts, I fully expect them to be the next dominant species after we wipe ourselves out.
laura
So happy the trash pandas made an escape, and hugs to the firefighters and their clever ladder stacking
rikyrah
chris evans (@notcapnamerica) Tweeted:
This woman asked Bernie about rape and sexual assault. Why did he start talking about wages? https://t.co/bWQbqrl206 https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1161706690095525888?s=17
Enhanced Voting Techniques
This is why they have masks, so we can’t ID them.
Elizabelle
I am glad the raccoons survived. #Save the trash pandas.
I wonder if fire departments ever do ladders like that with cats in trees.
JPL
Steyer is on CNN slamming trump about his lack of attention span to do the work necessary. He really should use his wealth to support dems especially running for Senate. He needs to put his ego aside.
J R in WV
Glad the “Trash Pandas” escaped — they looked OK to me, jumping the last 4 or 5 feet and scurrying away pretty well. I know they can be a pain in the ass, we’ve had them around here from time to time, but still, they’re pretty successful little varmits, and really cute.
ETA: Hope Mayor Pete awards the responsible firefighters with at least a nice certificate or plaque, or even a promotion for quick thinking…!!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Bernie’s a one-note ol’ tyme Marxist.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL:
Good luck with that.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: The beavers will make them ladders! We’re doomed!
VeniceRiley
@rikyrah:
That’s what the rape essay no one read was about, and Wilmer still believes it. The socialist revolution will solve all ills by paying great wages to all the male rabble; and their wimminfolk will no longer fantasize about being gangraped either … because their man will be a manly man with a secure job and a wage.
JPL
@rikyrah: The other day I listened to him and I was shocked how the media ignored his obvious gaffs to change but focused in on Joe. Count me in as a Biden/Harris ticket being the strongest so I might be biased.
I’d prefer if Joe resigned after the first year though.
JPL
@VeniceRiley: That is such a sick explanation, but I think you are correct.
mrmoshpotato
@JPL: Not resigned after the first day?
JPL
@mrmoshpotato: Okay you win.. I could agree with that. Kamala is on CNN now..
JPL
@JPL: oh my.. Kamala.. trump uses twitter as a weapon. well duh
Boris, Rasputin's Evil Twin
Last Thursday my father in-law received a letter from the NRA telling him about their “Banned Guns Giveaway” He has the opportunity to “Enter for a chance to win the guns that Bernie, Biden, and Booker want to BAN!” Assault rifles, tactical shotguns, pistols and more. We can’t decide if this, coming less than a week after Dayton and El Paso, is really bad timing, appalling taste, or just a slap in the nation’s face.
These fuckers have no souls.
Chyron HR
@rikyrah:
Because He is the lord your GOD, and you will heed His divine words!
TS (the original)
So I just saw the news on the markets. Took GWB seven years to crash the economy, seems trump can do it in less than three. There were no great leaps or falls during the Obama years & the Clinton years were steady growth after the crash of 87. I will never understand how RW governments convince the world they are the greatest of money managers.
Could it just be Democratic Party Presidents appoint people who know and understand what they are doing? Whose advice the Presidents follow?
mrmoshpotato
@JPL: hehe
Ohio Mom
My favorite memory of the zoo in Tel Aviv was the display of the exotic North American raccoon.
What a zookeeper’s delight: they’ll eat anything and reproduce easily. In fact, the cage was a bit over- overcrowded.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Chyron HR:
I thought Tad left the campaign.
Bill Arnold
@catclub:
They need more Red-State hurricanes to get the message?
[0] Link, to encourage reading the piece. 2°C: Beyond the limit – Extreme climate change has arrived in America (Steven Mufson , Chris Mooney , Juliet Eilperin and John Muyskens, (photos) Salwan Georges, Aug. 13, 2019)
FWIW that’s not projections; the projections look worse:
Weather 2050 – America is warming fast. -See how your city’s weather will be different in just one generation. (Umair Irfan, Eliza Barclay, and Kavya Sukumar, July 19, 2019)
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@TS (the original):
David Koch
@rikyrah:He was likely trying to avoid a follow up question on the rampant sexual harassment on his campaign.
Mary G
I am the second racoon.
Percysowner
New national poll shows Warren practically tied with Biden – but it’s their approval numbers that are more important Bernie is #3.
Bill Arnold
One of my first memories is of raccoons. A next-door neighbor used to feed them stale bread; he’d open an exterior basement door (concrete stairs up). I recall a bunch of masked faces with glowing eyes in the semi-dark. No fear for me (and obviously not for the raccoons).
Later, same place, my father fought an endless fight with raccoons over sweet corn. Every summer it was a different method; radio, wrapping the fertilized ears in plastic bags, electric fence, dog (OK, golden retriever, “pleasure blob”. :-), a few others. Nothing worked. Always, the raccoons would consume the sweet corn (neatly, leaving empty cobs) approximately one night before we were planning to pick it. They got annoyed at the electric fence though, pulled it down somehow. I think we got some one summer, perhaps the raccoons didn’t smell it in time.
Perhaps there was a few thousand years of social co-evolution with native Americans in the area, who grew corn.
mrmoshpotato
@Ohio Mom: Raccoons in a zoo – that must’ve been a sight to see!
Jay
CaseyL
@Ohio Mom: @mrmoshpotato: Australians feel the same bemusement seeing kangaroos in zoos :)
I’m extremely fond of raccoons, but my kitties hate them. Since babies/nursing moms, and youngsters fresh out on their own, know I’m an absolute sucker and good for a few handsful of kibble, they come around regularly for handouts. And my cats look at me like I’m out of my mind.
One of these days they’ll try to have me committed as a danger to society.
SectionH
@Ohio Mom:
@mrmoshpotato:
The Cincinnati Zoo has (had?) Raccoons in their petting zoo. They were the #1 animal a good Aussie friend wanted to see when we took him there. For realz. When I showed Mr S the Raccoon video up top, that was the first thing he said, welll, after his equivalent of “ Awwwwww…” So yeah “exotic” depends on where you’re starting from.
Eta: oh, and CaseyL. Exactly!
trollhattan
@Bill Arnold:
Parents had friends on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. They had us over for dinner and then the evening show, when they’d open the kitchen jalousie window and the raccoons would show up for their dinner–bread passed to the chubby arms reaching inside. Boy howdy, there’s no meaningful limit of how many bread slices a racoon can stuff into its maw–they just two-fist it in there as long as you hand it over. When they’d run out they closed the window and the bastards would bang on the glass awhile before waddling off, presumably next door.
As a city kid, of course, I LURVED it.
debbie
At long last, something even stupider than Trump.
SectionH
@CaseyL: Yeah, they’re cute, but DO NOT LET GET INTO YOUR HOUSE. /voice of experience
SectionH
@debbie: I’m not clear if this means ppl who license their name and/or logo must use “The” as part of the name, or if they want to be the exclusive owners of “The” as part of any University ‘s name. In the latter case, Hopkins, uh, excuse me, The John Hopkins University might want a word…
Roger Moore
@CaseyL:
Something like this struck me when I was in Singapore. We went to a park (near Bukkit Timah) that had monkeys in it, and everyone treated them about the way we’d treat squirrels or raccoons: they’re interesting and cute but troublesome, and nothing to get worked up about. But when we went to a nature area and saw a squirrel, people were terribly excited at seeing something so exotic.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: Goes with the territory of being THE Ohio State University.
Jay
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: Can a Twitter user ask Jared to put a number to “the last few years?”
Jay
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
It used to be rare for “conservatives” in office to slip and not use the dogwhistles.
Now, with the Wussolinni Reich in power, almost all of them have abandoned the dogwhistles and are reading directly from Generalplan Ost in the origional german, quoting from Mein Kamph and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
debbie
@SectionH:
Apparently, they want to sell a line of t-shirts printed with “The” alone. They will not get the copyright, but they will bring out those shirts. I can only hope it fails.
debbie
@Jay:
Epstein strikes from beyond the grave!
Jay
Brutal thread,…….
CaseyL
@Jay: That appears to be a parody account.
Kattails
If you have ever tried to grow corn, and were so disappointed when you got these teensy ears, so the next year you
built a massive compost pile, layered, with chicken manure, and it smoked when you turned it diligently,
and you piled on the manure and planted some nice eating corn and some beautiful multicolored flour corn,
and you tended the beds and kept manuring and got several rows of tall corn with great-looking ears,
and TWO DAYS BEFORE YOU WERE GOING TO HARVEST, the f*cking raccoon clan and their entire extended family had a party where they tore down every single stalk and took ONE F*CKING BITE OUT OF EVERY SINGLE EAR
you would not give a rat’s …yes I know they’re cute but… the only time I’ve ever considered owning firearms. Thinking about it, if I had to create a Trump coat of arms, raccoons rampant on a field argent might be a a place to start.
Michael Cain
IIRC, whichever agency it is that tracks power outages has a separate category just for outages caused by squirrels. Because it happens that often.
Miss Bianca
@Kattails: Came to feel the same way about deer. For the same reasons.
satby
@J R in WV: South Bend has its issues, but love of animals unites this city. Serious critter love around here.