Political correctness has gone stark staring bonkers (again) . . .

[Anteater1717]

"I think both problems can be solved with judicious use of firearms.
I don't know if thier leagal in CA, (probaly not given the way they are there) but a bottle roket would probaly scare the hell out a gang of racoons. "

saddly bottle rockets are illegal too

actualy in ca its illegal to get an animmal to look at you
say you are talking and a squirrle in a tree turns its head to see what you are doing you can get a 50,000 fine i am not kidding

i hate peta and those tree hugers and how they influence the laws

 

[DRZinn]

say you are talking and a squirrle in a tree turns its head to see what you are doing you can get a 50,000 fine i am not kidding

 

[aryfrosty]

PC unleashed

There was a pretty large church down in Tennessee some years back. They built a nice, new big building and were well on the road to enjoying it. Bucky the Beaver and his posse moved into a crick in the rear of the property and built a nice, new bug dam. Within 6 months the basement of the church was flooded and the church was about to have a convicted felon for a deacon because he demolished the dam. They were told the "Beaver was here first and had to be respected." Again, like the good person said above..."Shoot, shovel and shuddup". As my father did when mom was bitten by a 'coon on the deck of their home. The only part of that 'coon still above ground the next morning was its head, which went to a private lab for a rabies test.

 

[Calumus]

It seems like they want to return everything to the natural order that exists in Disney cartoons where foxes and bunnies are friends. They apparently have never watched any documentaries on predators and learned just how brutal nature really is. If I couldn't shoot these little disease vectors and they were causing a serious problem I'd probably let my 120# land shark out to "play" with them. "Oh look honey, that racoon must have just had a bath the dog's shaking him dry. Its so nice to see animals getting along like that" Its like these people that want to keep you from hunting the friendly bears here in Jersey, "they just want to be left alone" Tell me that again after you've been charged by a 500 pounder like I was last week. Once again thank God for the land shark and his 'ornery attitude towards anything not people or dog. These people really do continue to amaze me. Do they have lyme disease on the west coast? Do they understand what vermin can bring into a populated area even if they aren't causing any "real" problems? Why did these idiots have to take over one of the most beautiful parts of our country? Why couldn't they have all moved to a desert somewhere making it possible for normal people to live in Cali without having to deal with nonsense like this every day? Such a shame.

 

[The_Antibubba]

This is not a solution that calls for guns. It calls for lawyers.

Seriously. Raccoons are known rabies carriers. All that is needed is to have someone sue the county for putting their health and well-being at risk, and Animal Control will realize (via the County's accountants) that trapping the little guys is much more humane than court fees.

 

[expvideo]

Won't attack unless cornered

Kind of like the group of racoons that cornered my parents' cat on the porch and then stood up to my dad when he opened the door, only to back down when they saw an angry dog. Sounds like a harmless animal to me

 

[aryfrosty]

Raccoons

From growing up in the woods of the south I can attest to the facts that 'coons have a very bad attitude. There are documented situations where 'coons have drowned dogs. Likewise... where hunters who might have sampled the toddy "before" hunting have gone into a tree to shake the devils out and gotten a severe butt whippin' courtesy of the 'coon. They are vicious little rats and, while they deserve to live unmolested...(unless you like to hunt them)...I'd put up with about 10 seconds of sass from a 'coon outdoors before I cancelled his ticket. Better that than rabies shots, which I've "enjoyed", and stitches enough to make Frankenstein jealous.

 

[NeverAgain26]

N.J. just called off the Bear Hunt because some woman (I forget her title) appealed to the court and basically said not enough has been done to explore non-lethal methods to solve the bear problem (at least she admits there is one ). She wants to explore sterilizing the bears and also to better train humans not to leave trash where it will attract the bears.

It seems Kali is not the only place where problems exist.

Saul Levy

 

[Calumus]

I guess she's forgetting the little experiment they did a couple years ago with deer here. They tried birth control darts. Spent around 5 or 6 million on it I believe and the program ended up being a complete failure. Now what I want to know is how sterilizing the 500-700 pound bears that have no fear of humans that seem to be all we have out here now is going to do any good. Sure, you may slow the rate of population growth but you still have a boat load of large fearless predators roaming around. I've been charged twice in the last month or so, both times I was out in the open so there was no element of surprise for the bears. Neither time was it a sow with cubs. Both times my dog saved my butt. I now go armed when walking him on my property; but unfortunatly that's not an option on the public trails here so my hiking's now shot until hibernation time. All because some idiot who lives in Trenton doesn't want to see Yogi and Booboo hurt.:banghead: