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Angry Vermont Woman Slams ‘Bloody Carcass’ of Dead Raccoon Against Doors of City Hall
- Posted on December 4, 2011 at 3:02pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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(The Blaze/AP) Police in Vermont say a woman who might have been angry about a dead raccoon left on a street took its bloody carcass to City Hall and angrily slammed it against the building’s doors.
Burlington police say the woman left the raccoon’s body outside City Hall before walking off one morning two weeks ago.
Witnesses have told the Burlington Free Press the animal might have been hit on a nearby street and that the woman might have been upset no one from the city had come to collect it.
Police say the woman faces a possible vandalism charge. They also say her actions created a public health hazard.
They‘re seeking the public’s help in identifying the woman and have released a description and surveillance photo of her.
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flatbroke
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 6:32pmSo its ok for the dead carcuss to rot on the street, but to rot in the city offices oh my! thats a public health hazard! I have had the same problem with the city in which i live re: picking up leaves on the street. i call them and the woman on the phone says ” we will pick them up, but you should not blow them in the street.” I told her i dont own a blower, which i dont ” we will take care of it.” rude as H#$$ attitute, i called her back and told her “gee i wish i had a city job.” they finally cleaned up the mess.
Report Post »wheeler44
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 4:48pmHey, if they weren’t coming out and removing it I can actually see her anger and frustration.
Report Post »Probably not the best way to handle it but IF the city didn’t respond to telephone calls( a big assumption on my part) she has a right to be mad.
shofar
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:21pmI live in a city with a population of nearly one million, so my neighborhood is definitely not out in the country. A neighbor two doors down decided that she no longer needed to take her trash out, but rather stockpiled it in her garage. This caused the neighborhood to be over run with rats.
After calls to rodent control (yes my city has a division for that) and to the “Mayor’s Action Center” where citizens can file concerns, I was given the run around as to how to get the problem solved. One department saying to call the other etc. I came home for lunch one day and found a dead rat in my driveway. I had enough, and double bagging the rat in two Ziploc bags took it to city hall and the mayor’s action center. When I tried to explain my problem to the woman at the desk she again referred me to rodent control. That is when I dropped the bagged rat on her desk, and told her that someone had better do something or I was taking the rat to the local media.
That afternoon I got a call from rodent control and within 48 ours they had baited the entire neighborhood and ordered the garbage removed from the property two doors down.
Some times citizens need to stir up the pot to get anything done.
On an interesting note, shortly after my visit the Action Center was moved to a part of city hall where citizens cannot have access to it.
Report Post »BeckaBrwnEyes
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 9:15pmI hope your neighbor has either moved or has been given a warning not to do that again. That is disgusting.
Report Post »chekmate2
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:56amHow is a dead raccoon at the City Hall door any more of a health hazard than one in the road? Or for that matter, any more of a health hazard than most politicians and their policies?
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 11:53amin the 90′s we had a farmer pull up to city hall in my area in a manure spreader and cover the place in chicken $%$#. Seemed fitting at the time.
Report Post »Lover of America
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 10:56amYeah, you can’t hunt them anymore due to PETA. So it’s much better just letting them get hit by vehicles. DUH!
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 7:24amGood thing that they are going after her, the whole publics health depends on it. I mean, do you know how tragic for public health it is to sling dead raccoons around? The children might have barfed up their soylent green!
Report Post »downthewell
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 9:52amKeep ‘em angry Glenneth. She probably is still frothing from reading Beck’s stale news about the woman in Tampa and her 16+ kids who are homeless.
Report Post »midnightvelvet
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 12:56amI wouldn’t turn her in…I’d like to smack a few people with a raccoon.
Report Post »Starla
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:22amI’m with you on that one! I know the feeling! :-p
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 9:37amRoadkill FOODFIGHT!!!!
Report Post »piper60
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:18pmI think she has the right idea.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:01amFor what? What about this makes sense? There are hundreds of dead animals on the roads and streets. I wish that she would have the same determination to complain about what’s going on in Washington or in her own state. There are allot more important issues in this country than failure to pick up a dead animal off the street.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:57am@PAM
And there are city employees that get paid very well to make sure those dead animals get cleaned up. It‘s illegal in most states for private citizens to remove dead animals from the streets so if they don’t get removed by the city they sit there and rot.
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:02pmShe looks a little out there, but I hope no one gives her up.
Report Post »chingachgook
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:19pmAre they going to Rat-coon her out?
Report Post »chingachgook
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:22pmwill they rat-coon her out?
Report Post »jose wasabi
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:44pmVandalism charges and a public health threat??? The police state is out of control. If you do anything they don’t like, they will manufacture charges against you, this is proof.
Report Post »vonMises
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:55pm“Public health threat”? This from the type of people who put up with OWS?
Where was the dead critter when she found it, and whose health was it threatening there?
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:59pmThe city just implicated itself.
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:42pmThe raccoon probably had it coming.
Report Post »Totally Domestic
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 10:18pmI can’t stand those sneaky critters! They get in my garbage all the time.
Report Post »But they are so cute.
palerider54
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:41pmHell I’m from WV, we eat road kill.
Report Post »Ain’t no wonder them yankees are going hungry, throwin away a perfectly good coon.
Bronco II
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:42pmI‘m a yankee and I don’t eat Racoon or road kill because GOD made these bodies and told us what food he deems clean to eat and what was created to clean up the earth so if you eat road kill your starving the other animals GOD created to clean them up GET IT MEAT HEAD.Every animal is for a purpose some are for us to eat and some are for cleaning up the earth READ LEVITICUS 11 it still applies it wasn’t nailed to the cross as many think everything was JUST THE BLOOD ORDIANACES.Do you know the difference between ORDIANACES,STATUTES,LAW according to GOD not man.It‘s not a sin to eat the unclean but they will make you sick but hey chow down I’ll stick to BEEF,CHICKEN,FISH ( with scales and fins ) which is clean to eat NOT scavangers like CAT FISH,SHRIMP,LOBSTER all fish that don’t have both scales and fins like TROUT,FLOUNDER,BASS and so they must have both to be considered clean to eat the rest are there to clean the ocean like sucker fish have you thought of what they really eat well they eat fishes POOP,DEAD FISH AND WHAT NOT SO AGAIN CHOW DOWN. PORK they have no sweat glans you eat what they eat and again it’s not a sin but not healthy for you AGAIN CHOW DOWN.
Report Post »ehbardin
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:09pmWe should start doing that with occupiers…
LIBERTEA
Report Post »Roadking3131
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:08pmNothing like kicking roadkill when it’s down. It‘s Bush’s fault.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:06pmNot for little minds of city hall!
Report Post »waggie
Posted on December 4, 2011 at 9:46pmSeriously? Don’t we have bigger things to worry about?
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