Killer Raccon Packs In Oly Wash:

[Brock Samson]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/08/22/international/i075248D01.DTL 

[Johnny SixPack]

Elephants, sharks, deer and now raccoons.

You push animals far enough and they're gonna push back.

Either that, or this finally proves cities drive you 'crazy'.

Hell, sounds just like a raccoon version of the Crips/Bloods/etc.

[bull]

Hmm? That story reminds me a lot of the illegal immigration debate going on right now.  You give the poor bastards a little food and shelter and suddenly they try to take over.

[8WHEELER]

I truly don't understand it, everybody complains and jokes about how much it rains up here in the
Seattle area, and most of it is true. But people are still moving up here like you would not believe.

Eight years after I moved into this 'older' house they started a housing development just 2mi past me.
There is over two thousand new condo's and 1500 new houses, and they did not make the roads
any larger to help with traffic. It used to be one light to get into town and 4 minute drive. Now they
have added six lights in a one mile distance, and it takes almost 20 minutes at 9pm at night to get to town.

We used to have every animal you could think of back then, now the animals that were out where
the new houses are have been driven closer to me and closer to town, and then people don't
understand why    Hell they trapped two black bears this year in down town Seattle, and
people are scared and are still asking how can this happen. Drive around this area now after
not being here for 7yrs and it is not recognizable.

We even have a wild peacock that stays within the three houses around me and nobody has
any clue where it came from or who owned it, it walks across our kind of back road, and people
diving by stop so they don't hit it and tell us to get the bird out of the street, we all say its not
ours it just hangs around doing what ever it feels like.

Dan

[sunfire69]

Time to get out the old Remington 870.
I bet PETA is behind this giving support to packs like this
Jerry

[Recharger]

I blame the parents.   

[4402tuff4u]

Cool bird 8WHEELER! Nice to have something like that in the backyard. Wonder if you have wild turkeys too.

[Headrope]

The original story the nationals picked up and re-wrote as if their own is still available online at http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060821/NEWS/608210327

[Shakey]

I just got back from Seattle, WA a few hours ago.  Had a good time.  Lots of trees!   

[8WHEELER]

I just got back from Seattle, WA a few hours ago.  Had a good time.  Lots of trees!   

  Please tell everybody it was raining and 45 degree's in August  Please Please 

Dan

[6pkrunner]

They're urban raccoons, and they're not afraid."


-for some reason that hit me hard in the funny bone. A posse of raccoons dressed in bling and Fubu gear roaming the streets at will looking for victims.

[bull]

They're urban raccoons, and they're not afraid."


-for some reason that hit me hard in the funny bone. A posse of raccoons dressed in bling and Fubu gear roaming the streets at will looking for victims.

They do have fur coats.

[Charger_Fan]

We have a family of antelope that come-n-go as they please near my house. It's not uncommon to see a few of them in the mornings eating grass in the small parks. There's also some cool looking hawks & a few owls that live on the field mice nearby too. I feel bad when one of them gets pasted by a car as he flies across the road with a mouse in his crosshairs.

[SeattleCharger]

"It's a new breed," said Tamara Keeton         

            That is funny.  I thought the coyotes running out of territory was killing the pets, but racoons? 

  When they fight outside the house here, they sound dang vicious.   Once I was standing outside the back door and one was in the bushes and the thing got scared and I couldn't believe how fast that thing ran through the bushes, very fast.  I always thought they were slow and lumbering, but they can rip and move fast when they want. 

[SeattleCharger]

   

   "Psycho Killer Raccoons Terrorize Olympia"

              man that is funny.   I lived in Oly about 14 years, guess I moved just in time, heh