OT: Why do racoons

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Rickstir

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• Nov 18, 2010

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insist on committing suicide by vehicle? This morning on the way to work (5:00 am), I pass one skunk standing by the side of road, two coons lounging in the other lane seemingly oblivious to my passing. All of a sudden a coon races out from the other side of road, right under the tires. Why don't they just stay put?

 

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CWL

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• Nov 18, 2010

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I've often wondered the same thing about cottontail rabbits. They can be 100ft off of the road in a field and as soon as the headlights hit them, here they come. Then a lot of times when the get to the road they will run down the middle of it in front of the vehicle.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Nov 18, 2010

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for the same reason the chicken crossed the road.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Nov 18, 2010

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Well the rabbits don't have carrots in the fi eld and can't see so good, so they use your headlights.LOL
Butch

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Nov 18, 2010

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They've been going to 'possum school.

Q: What should you do if you get lost in the woods?

A: Find some fresh 'possum tracks, and simply follow them to a nearby major highway. And remember to silently thank the dead 'possum you find there.

 

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CAROGATOR

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• Nov 18, 2010

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Assisted Suicide?

 

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Curt Cooke

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• Nov 18, 2010

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Reminds me of the old joke, Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum it could be done.

 

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Spook

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• Nov 18, 2010

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I followed a rabbit about 100 yards down our road. Little boob kept looking back at me. I stopped several times, he finally went off into the weeds.

 

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Dave H (MI)

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• Nov 18, 2010

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If you had swerved you could have hit the other two also. If you're gonna live in the country you need to learn how it's done. Sheesh...what an amateur.

 

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rrlund

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• Nov 18, 2010

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All joking aside,I think it's the same with most animals. They go back to what ever side of the road they came from when they feel threatened. Something about returning to safety. Joke's on them ain't it?

 

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Bill Tom

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• Nov 18, 2010

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You never see a dead crow in the road. They are smart . When they are eating roadkill a lone crow sits in a nearby tree and when a vehicle approaches he goes "Caw Caw" and they all fly away.
I know that was bad but it was all i had.

 

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Pair-a-dice farm

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• Nov 18, 2010

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At least they ain't like armadillos, they are born dead on the road.

 

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Mark - IN.

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• Nov 18, 2010

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You know? I didn't think he'd really do it. I bet him $5 that he wouldn't just before he disappeard. He actually did it, huh? What a dummy. I won't even have to pay him the $5 now. Well, I better call his wife and tell her not to wait up for him.

Mark

 

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MartyinVa

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• Nov 18, 2010

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The possums around here favorite food is rubber.

 

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RayP(MI)

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• Nov 18, 2010

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I think one gets downed, and all his buddies run out to see what happened!

 

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BarryfromIA

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• Nov 18, 2010

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Its much better to hit them on the road and be done with em than to catch them in your live trap and then have to weight them down and then relocate them.

 

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Bob Bancroft

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• Nov 18, 2010

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Just be glad it wasn't a deer.

 

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IOWA NORTHEAST

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• Nov 18, 2010

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A dude that lives along the Mississippi river stomps fish guts into the crack in the highway so the coon go for the bait, and last meal.

 

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ChrisinMO

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• Nov 18, 2010

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One evening I 'chased' a fawn down our road for about two hundred yards. It's mother had jumped through the fence where we first met them. The little creature couldn't figure out what to do. So it went on down the road ahead of us. We went very slowly, stopping every so often, but it still wouldn't go through the fence. Finally came to one of our neighbor's gates going into a field and it went through. I don't think I'll ever see anything like that again.

Christopher

 

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redtom

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• Nov 18, 2010

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Did you ever notice they get run over two or three at a time? thats because they go out to eat on their dead and get run over. But they"re so cute, not.

 

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NEKS

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• Nov 18, 2010

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Father-in-law told me about the time he and his brothers were fixing fence. Their dog scared up a jackrabbit and started chasing it. Here come that jackrabbit down the cowpath along the fence. Another brother farther down the hill saw him coming so he squatted down beside the cowpath and held a spade across the cowpath. The jackrabbit was so busy looking over his shoulder at the dog it hit the spade, spin the brother around and pop the eyesballs out of the jackrabbits head.