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Re: wtf a raccoon <Reply # 40 on 9/26/2013 6:05 PM >
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Those things are crazy.
Awwwww! It's mouth kinda forms a heart shape! HOW CUTE!!! Give a person a match and they'll be warm for a minute, but light them on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life. =)
Re: wtf a raccoon <Reply # 42 on 10/13/2013 7:14 AM >
Had a incidence with a coon recently myself, this was in broad daylight and it showed no fear repeatably attempting to enter the rooms I was photographing in. I was getting a little unnerved due to its behaviour ( I had a run in with a rabid fox years ago, that has left me a little freaky about animals behaving contary to their nature) Only when I called my fellow explorer from the next room and we stood side by side did it very relunctantly wander into a back room. I then slammed the door shut and placed a milk can against the door, as the door would not close completely. That coon spent the next hour with it`s paws wrapped around the side of the door trying to push it open even though the two of us were in the next room. Unnerving to say the least..
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Re: wtf a raccoon <Reply # 43 on 10/13/2013 3:23 PM >
So when you left, did you leave it trapped in there?? Give a person a match and they'll be warm for a minute, but light them on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life. =)
Re: wtf a raccoon <Reply # 44 on 10/14/2013 2:20 AM >
Therrin, the room I trapped it in was the summer kitchen. The raccoon had access to the basement( basement had a hole in the foundation) and to a open window in the summer Kitchen it could get out of.
Re: wtf a raccoon <Reply # 45 on 10/14/2013 2:34 AM >
Not a coon, but I spotted an opossum climbing out from the exact same exit as I took from a location I was at 20 or so seconds after I had exited. Interesting how I might have been standing right next to it and it still didn't bite me.
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Re: wtf a raccoon <Reply # 46 on 10/14/2013 11:20 AM >
(This has nothing to do with raccoons)
This one time I went mine exploring with a Sheriff's Deputy. He took me into an area I couldn't get into by myself, he had keys.
So we're out driving around in his black & white suv from work, and hitting up a few different little mines. One of them was a really tight fit, and he got video of me wiggling in and out that's up on youtube.
But the last one of the day was a little different. Had to cross this field area covered with dead weeds, and there was a piece of ore cart rail sticking up out of the ground near this little opening. So we agreed that I'd go in first, and if it was cool then he'd come in, cuz he was still in uniform.
So I go in, and make my way back and around finally to this collapsed area inside, and I head back to tell him it didn't end up going anywhere...
and I hear him shout "DON'T COME BACK OUT!!"
And I'm all wtf... So I start to ask what's up and he's like "DON'T COME OUT YET MAN, SERIOUSLY"
So I'm sitting there... and finally I yell at him "WHAT THE HELL, ARE YOU TAKING A SHIT OUT THERE OR SOMETHING??"
And he says "No! A MOJAVE GREEN RATTLE SNAKE JUST SLITHERED INTO THE OPENING WHERE YOU CRAWLED IN AND ITS SUNNING ITSELF THERE!"
The opening is about 2ft tall. So there's no way around the snake. And he doesn't want to scare the snake further in towards me.
So I go "SHOOT THE FUCKER!!" Then I think I bumped the ceiling with my helmet and a big clod fell out of it (or something similar) and I was all "WAIT! DON'T SHOOT THE FUCKER!" Then I explained my fears about the ceiling collapsing.
So he went to the Black&White to get a shovel, but when he came back he was like "OH SHIT IT'S GONE, I DONT KNOW WHERE IT IS, CAN YOU SEE IT?"
So i go, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S GONE???? WHERE IS IT??"
So he pokes and prods in the weeds right around the mouth of the opening and tries to figure out where it's "not". And finally he figured it might be safe for me to belly crawl back out, and then we'd "figure out how to get back to the Black&White".
So the next thing he knows I'm out of that thing like a shot from a canon and hauling ass through the weeds to his SUV, so instead of figuring out a plan he just promptly up and follows at a dead run.
We get back to the SUV and he was like "well that worked". I pointed out that he had a gun and a shovel and that I figured he'd follow once he saw the 'plan' I had devised.
We headed back out after that.
I really hate coming across "critters" when I'm in confined spaces. Give a person a match and they'll be warm for a minute, but light them on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life. =)
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Re: wtf a raccoon <Reply # 52 on 10/21/2013 7:28 PM >
Dude, 93 at KPPC is a raccoon-turd mine field. The main stairs in the center is a maze of fecal horror. They live in the shopping carts. "Are you happy now with all the choices you've made?" "Are there times in life when you know you should've stayed?" "Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?" "Winners and losers... which one will you be today?" ***Social Distortion***
Re: wtf a raccoon <Reply # 54 on 1/21/2014 10:54 AM >
One time while me and a couple friends were exploring Lucky 13 drain, we came across a possum half way through. It sort of walked towards us and hissed at us. We did not really know what to do so we just tried to kind of get it away from us by making some sound and it did the trick. The possum just continued down the drain. Most of the time animals like raccoon's are a lot more afraid of you than you are of them.
Re: wtf a raccoon <Reply # 56 on 2/7/2014 9:58 PM >
I had a racoon for a pet for about a year. they're awesome animals and VERY smart, but you can't domesticate them no matter how bad you want to. Their wild instincts always take over.
and a word of advice, do NOT try to display dominance lol. If you come across one in the wild most likely you're in it's home and they will defend it if they feel threatened.
Re: wtf a raccoon <Reply # 59 on 2/10/2014 11:52 PM >
So it rained all day Saturday and I had run out of milk. I had hoped the rain would stop but it continued all night and I ended up waiting til 2am before going downstairs to fetch my milk. I feed 2 neighborhood cats on my porch and the food sometimes attracts raccoons, skunks, possums, and something that appears to be a badger.
So....on my way back as I round the staircase with my mail and a gallon of milk, dripping wet, in my PJ's and drenched slippers....a HUGE raccoon that had been on the porch eating, comes BARRELING down the stairs and rams his head into my shin. I got knocked backwards down 2 stairs and my slipper rotates on my foot and I go sprawling on my ass desperately trying to save the gallon of milk. I'm laying there as raccoon #1 goes scrambling around the corner and all of a sudden his mate raccoon #2, comes running down the stairs and tramples/runs over me with wet muddy feet....right up and over my chest (tearing my shirt) AND my face. Dug his/her back claws into my scalp as it pushed off too so now I was bleeding a little. I start cursing up a storm and trudging up the wet stairs. I reach the porch and there is raccoon #3 standing on hind legs hissing at me and blocking my entrance. I stood there for 20 full minutes trying to get him to leave. Soaked to the bone with muddy footprints on my forehead and blood dripping down my neck.
Icing on the cake....Police rolled by and shined spotlight on me. The question is not when are we gonna stop, It's who's gonna stop us?
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