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2007-09-28 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Road Crew Blasted for Painting Yellow Stripes Over Raccoon’s Body
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Posted by Delphi 2007-09-28 08:47|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Not that raccoons have fleas or that fleas carry disease and usually will attached themselves to something/someone else for fresh blood. Or that the painting crew had the proper items to pick the kill up themselves without throwing the dice on that issue. It's dead Jim.
Posted by Procopius2k 2007-09-28 09:44||   2007-09-28 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Nobody has a sense of humor anymore.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-28 09:48||   2007-09-28 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 
Somebody had to do it. Might as well be me.
Posted by ed 2007-09-28 09:52||   2007-09-28 09:52|| Front Page Top

#4 A definite candidate to be entered into the Rantburg photo library
Posted by kilowattkid 2007-09-28 09:57||   2007-09-28 09:57|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by Angleton9 2007-09-28 10:44||   2007-09-28 10:44|| Front Page Top

#6 The image is from Fred's library. Haven't seen near enough of it these days.
Posted by ed 2007-09-28 10:51||   2007-09-28 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 If others didn't live in the city, your uncrowded southern countryside wouldn't be so any more, Angleton9 dear.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-28 11:07||   2007-09-28 11:07|| Front Page Top

#8 The event occurred about three miles from my home. I've driven that stretch of Archer Avenue. It's more like a semi-rural road at that point, and no doubt critters try and fail to cross the road.

And as a resident of Illinois, I can testify that no way in hell would the IDOT people striping the road slow down, let alone stop.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2007-09-28 11:09||   2007-09-28 11:09|| Front Page Top

#9 The lines on the road by my house appear to have been painted by Mrs. Green's kindergarten class.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-09-28 11:26||   2007-09-28 11:26|| Front Page Top

#10  ...no way in hell would the IDOT IDiOTs people striping the road slow down, let alone stop. There. Fixed it for ya, doc.
Posted by GK 2007-09-28 11:29||   2007-09-28 11:29|| Front Page Top

#11 It's funny, for Pete's sake.
The only problem is it's not very flat yet.
Posted by wxjames 2007-09-28 12:39||   2007-09-28 12:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Angleton9:

If you follow the link and view the video, you can see clearly that the animal is indeed a racoon.

Now pay attention: the picture ed posted (the one showing the possum) is one that has been floating around the internet for years, and is NOT related to this particular article.

"Cherryboy" yourself, dipwit.
Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2007-09-28 12:43||   2007-09-28 12:43|| Front Page Top

#13 

I guess he slipped... Too bad...
Posted by BigEd 2007-09-28 12:44||   2007-09-28 12:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Alternate Link

The Breitbart Link did not work for me... But I found this from the Dallas CBS affiliate of the story...
Posted by BigEd 2007-09-28 12:51||   2007-09-28 12:51|| Front Page Top

#15 Oh. Folks are pissed because they're lazy. State workers lazy? That's shocking...
I originally thought people were pissed because of the defacement of the corpse of one of Gaia's woodland creatures...
Posted by tu3031 2007-09-28 12:57||   2007-09-28 12:57|| Front Page Top

#16 Having dealt with local useless bureaucrats over a simple issue of a broken trash can, supplied by the city, I know what the moron who did this would say if asked..

"I am in charge of painting stripes. The dead raccoon is an animal control issue. It's not my job to pick it up, or to call them, either."
Posted by BigEd 2007-09-28 13:34||   2007-09-28 13:34|| Front Page Top

#17 "I am in charge of painting stripes. The dead raccoon is an animal control issue. It's not my job to pick it up, or to call them, either."

This picture has been in my stash for a very long (internet) time, with the mention "winner of the not-my-job award".
Posted by anonymous5089 2007-09-28 13:59||   2007-09-28 13:59|| Front Page Top

#18 Btw, I went to the sinktrap to get the juicy bits, and I don't find A9's comment particularly inflammatory, unless I'm missing something, a southerners dissing yankees & city folks.
Posted by anonymous5089 2007-09-28 14:02||   2007-09-28 14:02|| Front Page Top

#19 Not that raccoons have fleas or that fleas carry disease and usually will attached themselves to something/someone else for fresh blood. Or that the painting crew had the proper items to pick the kill up themselves without throwing the dice on that issue. It's dead Jim.

Then, just call that guy, he will take care of the remains.
Posted by anonymous5089 2007-09-28 14:04||   2007-09-28 14:04|| Front Page Top

#20 Him wern't that bad but Ima recall maybe A9 is having issues of weirdness.
Posted by HalfEmpty 2007-09-28 16:59||   2007-09-28 16:59|| Front Page Top

#21 See, now I didn't realize that the mods were the ones posting the "too stupid" picture. I thought it was the guy with his name at the bottom. This explains some things. Now all is clear.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-09-28 19:06||   2007-09-28 19:06|| Front Page Top

#22 saw the sinktrap for A-9 ....whew! Surprised I'm not there more often. Quick trigger....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-09-28 21:28||   2007-09-28 21:28|| Front Page Top

#23 Surprised I'm not there more often.

Me 2 8-)
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-28 21:40||   2007-09-28 21:40|| Front Page Top

#24 Heck, I'm surprised I'm not there myself sometimes LOL
Posted by lotp 2007-09-28 21:46||   2007-09-28 21:46|| Front Page Top

#25 To clarify, the "Too Stupid" picture is automatically plopped in when a mod hits the Troll button. FYI.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-09-28 21:56||   2007-09-28 21:56|| Front Page Top

#26 Channeling the comment on the Three Gorges Dam ecological disaster story:

"Now you tell us," Sea. Like Angie said, that explains a LOT, I always thought that picture was being posted by the person of that comment. Now I know they're being sinktrapped.
Posted by BA 2007-09-28 22:03||   2007-09-28 22:03|| Front Page Top

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