KING-TV reports that raccoons have established their home in the cab of a huge tower crane, bringing its construction project to a halt. The raccoons are big ones, locals allege: "The thing was like a dog," said Lumber worker Trent Kristjanson.

  • http://burntheflag.ca Jardine

    Yes, but what do they want!?

    • Bersl

      SHINIES!

    • waetherman

      Affordable housing for raccoons, higher taxes on top predators, who knows? That’s the problem with this whole occupy movement – any procyonid can just claim to be a part of it!

    • franko

      i don’t know, but if they are anything like the raccoons in our neighborhood, i think the best course would be to just give them what they want. maybe they will go away.

      • Antinous / Moderator

        Oh, you’re the person who leaves the food out for them. That’s why they don’t leave and have invited all their relatives to stay.

  • TombKing

    Yes they would be big. We had enough animal control had to come out and trap a bunch a few summers ago.They didn’t act aggressive but sure were pretty not caring about humans noticing their activity. With a wetland area right nearby there isn’t much to totally keep them completely away but they get big living off the junk food us humans leave out for them.

    • s2redux

      They’re normally not aggressive….until you encounter a momma protecting her babies; then you need to vamoose. If you live in a racoon-rich area and have a fireplace chimney, fer Bog’s sake pay the money to install a good cap — mama racoon sees it as a hollow tree, and she’ll climb down it to birth her kits on the fireplace smoke shelf.

      (And if you do wind up with a racoon in the chimney, don’t try to “smoke” her out — it’s needlessly cruel and usually ineffective. Instead, soak a towel in ammonia and drop it down from above. Then get out of the way, ‘cuz she’ll come barrelling up outta there carrying the kits.)

      • Jack_Spellman

         Thanks for this excellent advice!

  • http://whimsicalacious.tumblr.com/ Patrick McGorrill
    • -hms-

       My thoughts exactly.

      • trackofalljades

        Ditto!

  • theophrastvs

    Overnight a seven-eleven was hauled skyward and lashed to the jack

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  • Felton / Moderator

    Your crane style is no match for my raccoon style.

  • annoyingmouse

    The Raccoons were always against construction projects but it used to only be if Cyril Sneer was behind them…

  • Jason Baker

    This would never happen in Eagleton.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=11712276 David Gill

    I call the big one bitey. 

  • robotnik

    Just wait until the cephalopods show up.

  • niktemadur

    Raccoons Occupy… this chick.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      They really don’t give a shit. I’ve had a cat, a raccoon and a roadrunner all eating out of the same bowl.

      • niktemadur

         A cat and a raccoon side by side?  Pics or it didn’t happen!

        • Austin McHenry

          Yep, it’s true! Cats and raccoons get along pretty well. Cats treat them like big alpha cats.

          • Antinous / Moderator

            Things that don’t eat each other often ignore each other. And nobody fucks with a roadrunner. Those things are scary.

    • http://twitter.com/missshenna Lithi

      The one in the back is photobombing.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

    OPEN . . . THE . . . DOOR . . . NOW
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/8280419110

    • Antinous / Moderator

      I’m pretty sure that The Second Coming is actually about the possibility of raccoons developing opposable thumbs.