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Boat winterizing with a raccoon

:cheers2:We are full circle. That's the response I would have expected from OSO years ago.We have that humor here now. Thanks.
 
My wife works at a Sea Ray dealer. When she first got there they kept talking about the "racoon boat" . So after she's there for a while she asked what that was? They took her out and showed it to her. A BRAND NEW 28 Sundancer that a racoon got into and couldn't find a way back out or didn't want to. The entire interior was DESTROYED, vinyl, plastic, wood, foam, you name it. They eventually stripped and wrote off the boat.
 
A buddy of mine got ripped at the annual chili cook off and let his pot of chili out on the table in the cockpit of his cuiser. Needless to say it was quite the mess after the coon feast.
 
We had some goffers around my parents house and it was like Caddy Shack with all the stuff we did. Large fireworks, hose down the hole, block off holes with bolders, you name it. Eventually we did win but it took some doing.
 
Speaking of armadilloes...they're starting to infest LOTO. I must have seen a 100 different ones splattered on 54 and W this summer.
 
A big group of us grilled out at the cabin one night on the deck. Everyone drinking and eating and having a good time. I had the ice cream freezer going and everyone got a bowl. I went out to get me another bowl and this fukin raccoon had it between his legs eating like crazy!! I yelled " you motherf#4ker and ran toward him to get the can. He threw the can aside and charged at me on his hind legs. They have got huge teeth!!! I ran in the house screaming like a ***** and everyone thought I was crazy. Long story short the coon kicked our ass! Fuker ate so much ice cream he couldn't hardly walk.

On a side note though, the next morning I was going to dump a skillet of hot grease over the deck and guess who was there eating scraps??? I bet that sum***** stills smells like burnt bacon!!!
 
I've had a home in the woods in Ohio for about 13 years. Tons of Coons around, but the dogs keep em at bay. Well, after spending two solid years in Florida, they kind of forgot about me. So, I put up bird feeders all over the place this spring. They smashed and tore apart quite a few bird feeders and were eating my Strawberries growing on the deck, etc. Well, at first, I thought it was squirrels..........

ONE MORNING @ 5:30 I hear this very loud, very scary clawing / ripping sound at the corner of the house / master bedroom. I freak out and get up and peer out the windows to see what the hell is going on. I can hear this thing behind the wall and all of a sudden a small Coon peers into my window - two stories up!! I banged on the window and yelled and he climbed down (the house has a rough stucco finish). Knowing a bit about Coon's, I knew he would be back. At 6:30 on the dot, he wakes me up doing the same thing, I sit up in bed to see him looking at me again. It's light now so I grabbed a shotgun out of my closet and go on the deck and yell at him. He was scared, so I tried pushing him off the house to no avail. Ended up hitting him on the head with the gun and he fell and ran - just escaping my shot.

That was it - game on! I set up an ton of guns for different shots and camped out on my upper deck overlooking the lower decks the next night. The FIRST time I shined a flashlight on the decks there were at least 5 on the deck (shot 4), three behind the deck eating up my mellon patch (shot one) and at least 3 more on nearby trees (shot 2). Well, over the following week I killed around a dozen more. I figure I only killed about half of the group though. I'll be back at it next Spring. :sifone:
 
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