April 2013
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Runway Raccoon
This story is from Karen Inman
In St. Augustine, Florida, north of town, we have a small airport. My husband (Randy) and I had just gotten back from finally getting a bite to eat, when the wildlife phone rang. The lady on the other line began to say, “I work in the tower at the airport and one of our pilot’s has just left the runway. As soon as he got in the air he radioed back to say there is...
December 2012
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Raccoons Find a Home at Montclair's Watchung Plaza...
Raccoons Find A Home At Montclair’s Watchung Plaza Train Station
BY Liz George
Baristanet.com
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 6:49am
A tipster sends us this video of new tenants living rent free at Montclair’s Watching Plaza train station and writes…
Montclair has freeloaders living in attic of Watchung Plaza train station. Attic hatch left open, family moves in. Park street side, above southern...
August 2012
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Woman Attacked by Raccoon at NY Train Station
April 19, 2012
VALHALLA, N.Y. – A 33-year-old White Plains woman was attacked by a raccoon while getting into her car in the Valhalla train station parking lot Tuesday evening, Mount Pleasant Police Chief Louis Alagno said.
Alagno said the woman saw the raccoon looking at her from underneath an adjacent car, and rushed to get into her own car before it could attack, but the raccoon was too fast...
January 2012
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Raccoon retrieved from traffic lights, given lift...
Raccoon saved after shutting down Burlington intersection
Gloria Er-Chua
Staff Reporter
The Star
(Burlington, Ontario) A busy intersection in Burlington came to a standstill on Friday after a small raccoon became trapped atop a traffic light stand.
The little critter caused quite a stir, bringing out about a dozen workers from multiple organizations.
“It was one of those...
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The price of curiosity
Stuck raccoon causes train delays
Published: 17 Oct 11 10:58 CET
A raccoon stuck in a railway switch point shut down the intercity train lines between the central German towns of Göttingen and Kassel on Sunday.
Trains in both directions on the line in the state of Lower Saxony were suspended for an hour a half, while technicians removed the raccoon, which paid for its curiosity with its...
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Waiting for the raccoon bus
Poco Pete, the raccoon at Port Coquitlam Transit Centre
Poco Pete, the raccoon who has taken up residence on a bench at Poco Transit Centre.
By Jhenifer Pabillano, Translink
January 9, 2009
Vancouver, British Columbia
So, with all this bad weather, a raccoon has taken up residence on a bench at the Port Coquitlam Transit Centre! The staff has taken to calling him Poco Pete. (You...
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"Acting strangely" gets school bus raccoon shot
So remember, transit-riding raccoons, be calm. Act blasé. Let the driver assume you’re a fur-coated new student who just moved to town.
CMS driver finds raccoon on bus
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
By Stephen Lyttle, Charlotte Observer
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools bus driver headed to pick up students early Monday afternoon found an unwanted passenger aboard — a raccoon.
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