Out, damned raccoon.
(Credit: Kevin Rose/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
I know that in certain parts of the world they enjoy throwing short people in bars. As sport, you understand.
But until Saturday, I had never seen anyone tossing a raccoon. Especially for a good cause.
However, Kevin Rose — the man who founded Digg and is currently, I imagine, very happy — posted a video of himself picking up a raccoon and throwing it from the staircase of his home.
This, I should add, was not for sport, but to protect his Toaster.
Toaster is his dog — or, perhaps, his dogg.
In the video, Rose explains this all happened at one in the morning and that the raccoon was attacking his dog. He added that he doesn’t encourage animal violence.
However, if your Toaster is being attacked by a bandit-faced wild creature, you take the matter into your own hands. (And many posters on Reddit seem to be on Rose’s side.)
My own experience with raccoons is that they are as brazen as they are entirely in love with knocking garbage cans over to rummage inside. They leave a mess. And they’ll glance at you with an “oh, piss off” look as they’re doing it.
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