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November 19, 2007
Raccoon real victim in lovers' triangle
(reprinted from The Ottawa Sun)
AEDAN HELMER
It was a rude awakening.
As he was sipping his morning
coffee yesterday, a Brighton man glanced out his
kitchen window at the driveway he shares with a
neighbour.
He rubbed his bleary eyes and
did a double take.
"I ... thought, God, that looks
like a raccoon with a spear in it, and a sign on
it," he told the Sun. "So I tiptoed out there
and, sure enough, that's exactly what it is."
The sign read: "Stop trying to
f--- my wife, a--hole."
The man believes the note was
intended for his neighbour.
"Apparently he knows what it's
about," the man said, adding he'd spoken with
investigators in the afternoon.
Attempts to reach the neighbour
yesterday were unsuccessful.
Northumberland OPP are treating
the case as a legitimate threat. They haven't
released any details about a suspect, but
neighbours believe the warning might stem from a
tryst gone awry.
As for the raccoon: "It's still
here," the man lamented late yesterday. "I'm
gonna end up moving the damn thing."
He said the discovery was
"certainly shocking."
"I don't think anyone went out
and got a raccoon and speared it. I would
imagine they found it on the road. It's all
mutilated."
"This is a great neighbourhood,
but we've got a stick in the mud here," he said.
"I guess now it's a stick in the raccoon."
Letter to the Editor -
November 22, 2007
Re: "Raccoon real victim in
lovers' triangle" (Nov. 19).
While the dead raccoon might be
the victim of a lovers' quarrel, if it was
purposely killed, this kind of animal cruelty
can be a sign of mental illness. Studies have
shown that such behaviour can often escalate to
physical assaults against people. It should not
be taken lightly as a possible form of animal
exploitation and cruelty.
Our mandate is to protect urban
wildlife from undue harm and a society is often
judged by how it treats its most helpless and
vulnerable, including innocent animals.
Bill Dowd,
President, Humane Wildlife
Control Inc.
(Something is definitely wrong
in this story)
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