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[brian64]

Police find pet raccoon holding meth pipe during traffic stop in Ohio

The officer returned to the vehicle and found a raccoon, named Chewy, sitting in the driver's seat with a meth pipe in its mouth, police said.

Police find pet raccoon holding meth pipe during traffic stop in Ohio

Police in Ohio had an interesting encounter Monday after a pet raccoon was found with a meth pipe during a traffic stop.

www.abc15.com

 

[Servant King]

But just imagine the feathers that got ruffled when it was disclosed that the raccoon does the hot water flush...

 

[The Benedictine]

 

[Olkofri]

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Finally some pipe related news!

 

[Briarcutter]

Finally some pipe related news!

Only in O-hi-o

 

[Sig]

Years ago I got a call from a local sheriff deputy friend of mine.
He said he was at a house where a raccoon had an entire family, including their 110 pound German Shepard, held hostage. There is no animal control around here, so it's up to the cops to deal with animals. The DEC might show up......in a couple days. (But that's another story).
I showed up to find the raccoon going through drawers, opening the refrigerator and scrounging through cupboards.
My first thought was this wasn't this bandits first rodeo. He was about 50 pounds and very un-bothered by humans or dogs.
I tried coaxing him out, that wasn't happening. I got my catch pole and planned on a fight. I told the homeowners their kitchen may take a beating. Raccoons ain't pushovers.
I reached over and very easily got the loop around his neck and he very uneventfully walked out the door. He wanted to get in the front seat of my truck, but he had to settle for a cage in the truck bed. Realizing this was most likely a pet raccoon, I contacted a rescue organization in PA.
He's at the rescue to this day and has a great life. The day after he got to the rescue they could carry him around and he was in their house using the sink to wash his food.
True story.

 

[brian64]

Years ago I got a call from a local sheriff deputy friend of mine.
He said he was at a house where a raccoon had an entire family, including their 110 pound German Shepard, held hostage. There is no animal control around here, so it's up to the cops to deal with animals. The DEC might show up......in a couple days. (But that's another story).
I showed up to find the raccoon going through drawers, opening the refrigerator and scrounging through cupboards.
My first thought was this wasn't this bandits first rodeo. He was about 50 pounds and very un-bothered by humans or dogs.
I tried coaxing him out, that wasn't happening. I got my catch pole and planned on a fight. I told the homeowners their kitchen may take a beating. Raccoons ain't pushovers.
I reached over and very easily got the loop around his neck and he very uneventfully walked out the door. He wanted to get in the front seat of my truck, but he had to settle for a cage in the truck bed. Realizing this was most likely a pet raccoon, I contacted a rescue organization in PA.
He's at the rescue to this day and has a great life. The day after he got to the rescue they could carry him around and he was in their house using the sink to wash his food.
True story.

Great story, with a happy ending.

And good thing he wasn't on meth!

 

[georged]

Speaking of crazy raccoons, I had one pry its way into my attic through a vent and try to set up shop there thirty years ago when I lived in semi-rural Ohio. People told me it was probably planning to raise a family, and things would only get more complicated fast if I didn't take action.

So, I checked the situation with a peek from the top of the fold-down ladder, and sure enough Mr. (Mrs?) Bandit was looking straight at me from about 15 feet away. Big sumbitch.

Figured it was nothing a well-placed high velocity rimfire hollow point couldn't solve, though, so eased back down and fetched an old target model High Standard to do the deed.

The critter was still in the same spot when I went back up the ladder. He (she?) wasn't aggressive or shy---more like curious---as I emerged fully from the hatch and took a couple steps to my left for the best shot. One pop between the eyes was all it took. Mr. (Mrs?) Bandit shuddered and relaxed. My biggest surprise was how soft and luxurious its fur was.

People have told me since that I was lucky Mr. (Mrs?) critter didn't attack because it felt trapped in an enclosed space, but have no idea that's true or not. A rimfire .22 definitely doesn't have "body shot stopping power" if that had been the case.

 

[pinem]

We found a couple raccoons holed up between the floor joists in the basement of a old farm house that was only used during deer season. No way to get them out but pop them in the head with a .22lr. The resulting release of blood pressure was something very reminiscent of a samurai movie. It was a little alarming. Had to be done, though, as they can destroy a unihabited house in very short order.

 

[Sig]

Speaking of crazy raccoons, I had one pry its way into my attic through a vent and try to set up shop there thirty years ago when I lived in semi-rural Ohio. People told me it was probably planning to raise a family, and things would only get more complicated fast if I didn't take action.

So, I checked the situation with a peek from the top of the fold-down ladder, and sure enough Mr. (Mrs?) Bandit was looking straight at me from about 15 feet away. Big sumbitch.

Figured it was nothing a well-placed high velocity rimfire hollow point couldn't solve, though, so eased back down and fetched an old target model High Standard to do the deed.

The critter was still in the same spot when I went back up the ladder. He (she?) wasn't aggressive or shy---more like curious---as I emerged fully from the hatch and took a couple steps to my left for the best shot. One pop between the eyes was all it took. Mr. (Mrs?) Bandit shuddered and relaxed. My biggest surprise was how soft and luxurious its fur was.

People have told me since that I was lucky Mr. (Mrs?) critter didn't attack because it felt trapped in an enclosed space, but have no idea that's true or not. A rimfire .22 definitely doesn't have "body shot stopping power" if that had been the case.

Unfortunately sometimes that's the best way. People think that if they relocate the raccoon they will be fine.
That's great with most animals.
Here's the issue with raccoons.
If you relocate them too close to where they were caught, they most likely will come right back.
But if you relocate them too far away, other raccoons will kill them. If you have ever heard a raccoon fight, it was most likely due to a trespasser.
And what you were told can be true. A trapped raccoon is nothing to mess with. They regularly take on coyotes, wolves and bobcats....and survive. They are kind of like the American version of the honey badger, if you know their reputation, they take on lions and hyenas....by choice.
Ive always used either a single action 22lr revolver or a 10/22 when there is no choice.

 

[renfield]

Some people just don’t understand how enormously destructive raccoons can be. When people start feeding them and they lose their fear of humans it just makes a problem. Wild animals are just that and should be treated as such.

There’s video out there of some guy with about 50 raccoons on his deck and many of them crawling all over him to eat out of his hands. That won’t seem like such a good idea one day when he needs reconstructive surgery and rabies shots.

I can’t imagine if a raccoon actually managed to get methed up.

 

[Hillcrest]

"Chewy ! Switch seats ... I'll explain later ... thanks buddy! "

A neighbor was a hoarder and moved to another house abandoning the one near me ... eventually they sold it ... buyer took out 15 large dumpsters of junk and found 10 raccoons living in the house for several years. They had to fumigate the place after. They are living there now and quite happy as they got a real deal on it.

 

[Hillcrest]

 

[Olkofri]

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Would probably be a better flick than the one about the grizzly bear on dope.

 

[brian64]

Police find pet raccoon holding meth pipe during traffic stop in Ohio

The officer returned to the vehicle and found a raccoon, named Chewy, sitting in the driver's seat with a meth pipe in its mouth, police said.

Police find pet raccoon holding meth pipe during traffic stop in Ohio

Police in Ohio had an interesting encounter Monday after a pet raccoon was found with a meth pipe during a traffic stop.

www.abc15.com

I didn't even see the video earlier...didn't play...but here's the YT version...cop couldn't stop laughing lol.

 

[Hillcrest]

Would probably be a better flick than the one about the grizzly bear on dope.

Its the third in the series ... #2 was the croc on meth ... and they say movies aren't getting any better ! sshhheeessshhhh !

 

[upnorth1]

14 years ago this happened at our house.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I think that i have seen this on every single social media out there, now. Is it that the racoon smokes meth, or that the lady had a meth smoking racoon in her car, that makes this so fascinating?
Unfortunately, a good attorney can argue that all of the meth and paraphernalia in the car were the racoon's, and the lady was too scared of it to kick it out of her car.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

When I was a kid my dad and I had a possum with a litter under our house. When the babies grew up they must have felt like they already knew us, from living under the house.

They came in any way they could... Broke the duct work and climbed in the A/C vents.

I can still picture my dad murdering one with a nine iron on the kitchen table... in his white briefs. There was blood everywhere, all over him and the kitchen.

That was the first night though. After that we learned they weren't mean, and my old man would just pick 'em up by the tail and throw them out.