Raccoon bullies of Spryfield

yup ivan, that’s her. has haunted me all my life. no one even shouted out the window. and this is the same. no one shouted out the window? we hope for ‘karma’ to get them, we hope they’ll ‘get theirs’ someday, somehow, and meanwhile scuttle back and turn up the tv volume. at least in this instance someone did phone the police, and yes, i can see the hesitation in running out onto the street to confront these assholes, but this is exactly why these things happen. because they know no one will interrupt them, no one will call them on it. no one will risk it. my neighbour (despite his appalling taste in music) is a good one. we were all woken up one night by a woman crying and a rough male voice. we met in the road, he had a bat and i had my broom. the couple took off towards the main drag, but he ran back and got in his truck to chase them and i ran back in to call the police. he held them there til the police arrived. did we think it was probably a ‘domestic’ oh yes. but as he said ‘you can’t hit a woman – they can’t take the hit’ and so he was willing to get out there. and will do so again. and to take a little more time….i will spend the rest of my life paying it forward, because one night, when i was walking across a downtown bridge some guy tried to pull me into his car, i was screaming and stabbing at him with my nail file but probably would have ended up in the car, but for a young woman who started screaming and yelling and running towards us from the end of the bridge. her boyfriend was trying to pull her back. so. can you live with yourself if you don’t try to stop it?

bro, the latest comments are about trying to stop the event, getting out there or at least shouting out. we know the police were called.

would be nice to see if you can track the trail of blood, OP, to see if the poor creature is still suffering, and then call HFW. better late than never.

i have re-read the post a couple of times, and i guess the OP just isn’t that into animals. first point was that they woke up the neighbourhood. so i guess it wouldn’t have been an all consuming urge to go down and see if the poor beast was still alive. and i guess it was being facetious to suggest therapy. you think someone who could do that would be worried about escalation? ‘ oh heck, i am turning into a sociopath! better get a shrink’ damn and damn, toygrrl, yes.

no zzz, thats the point. ‘defenceless animal’ vs human with cell phone and 911 on the line. and if one human goes out, it may spur another one. and another. someone has to make the first move.

blow me..sometimes you’re ‘inappropriate’ .

i love the little beggars too, even though i lost a beloved cat to them years ago. but maybe not such a good idea to hand feed them. they should not trust humans. they have no idea the one person is giving them crackers, while another wants to bash their heads in with metal rods. they should run from the sight of humans. if you get the little ones used to kind humans, they could be killed by unkind humans.

hey crunch, it would be indeed a wonderful world. i think it’s too risky to ‘tame’ wild animals in an urban setting, too many other humans. but in the country? maybe not so risky.
i think humankind would be loathe to truly communicate with the rest of the beings on the planet, because that might mean they had equal footing with us. maybe the right to live?

^^^ i am not william munny but i also approve that message

^^^ huh? where did you get that from any of my comments?

however, since you mentioned it, i am an omnivore, but my daughter turned vegetarian, then vegan when she got pregnant, and raised her daughter that way for 16 years. never saw healthier people in your life. no allergies (ate lots of organic peanut butter) and no snivelling colds, even when she was in daycare, then school. but a neighbour of mine ran a health food store, and he was pasty looking creature, so i asked him straight out, ‘why are you so unhealthy when you run a health store?’ doh! he replied, ‘i run a health store because i am so unhealthy, and thats why people shop there, because they are unhealthy and this stuff is good for them. but it won’t provide miracles’. so that was fine. but a person of basic good health who decides to start vegan-ating about what they are eating, can do very well indeed. and everyone has dif reasons for going that way. with her, it was the thought of hormones in the meat and the killing methods. not the concept of meat/animal flesh itself.
still puzzled over your last sentence though….why wouldn’t animals be eating meat?

ahhh, had to re-read what i had written in various posts. i was not clear. equal footing would not mean equality in the way you may be thinking. and when i say right to life, it means, to me, the right to not be exterminated, wiped out. i was musing along with cap planet’s thought of complete communication with the other ‘higher’ species that share this planet with us, and that perhaps we may not be killing apes for their hands, or bears for their gall bladders. perhaps we would be navigating with whales, instead of harpooning them. however, carnivores are canivores, and lions and tigers and bears, oh my! would still want to eat us or anything else tasty they could catch. and we would be eating chickens and rabbits and anything else tasty we could catch. but perhaps saying a small thanks/prayer to the creature we killed to eat. to acknowledge the gift of life it was giving us.

it’s all about the money. doing it the cheapest way possible. but, for gods sake, why do they have to skin them alive? the korean dog meat farms torture the dogs because they believe high adrenaline tenderizes the meat. what’s the point for this?