Raccoons Find a Home at Montclair’s Watchung Plaza Train Station

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 steps.

Check out the video — we especially like when the raccoon peeks out of the hatch when the train comes, considers boarding, and then goes back to bed.

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 life.

Three trains were forced to stop mid-journey, while five others had to be re-directed. A spokeswoman for German rail operator Deutsche Bahn was not able to say how many passengers were affected by the delay.

The delays of all eight trains amounted to 270 minutes.

However, the raccoon is not thought to have been a member of the left-wing extremist group that sabotaged German railways in and around Berlin last week.

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I didn’t know there are raccoons in Europe. I thought they were a North American animal.

In German, a raccoon is a wash-bear: Waschbär.