Raccoons in Brooklyn???

yup, my husband did,
outside of soda a few weeks back,
just calmly going through the garbage
(the racoon, not my husband, he was having a smoke)

possum???
ykes, i love animals but those are truly hideous

I have seen a few racoons in my backyard. The ones here are much bigger than the ones in New Jersey. It must be the ample supply of garbage to feed on.

Fjord wrote:

the racoon, not my husband, he was having a smoke

I picture your husband going through the garbage while the raccoon calmly walks by.

the raccoon was also smoking? quite the urban critter.

humans stresses him out. smoking helps .

you think they are ugly? Check them out after they have been run over.

I see raccoons all the time on the Jackie Robinson Parkway by the cemetaries.

Last summer I was atv a barbeque in Middle Village Queens. We saw a skunk. That right, a SKUNK in NYC. Yes, all six educated adults were sure it was a skunk.

They live next to a cemetary - the people throwing the barbeque that is. I think the skunks live IN the cemetary.

Hey! No wonder that burger tasted so good :shock:

We need George Saunders' 400 Pound CEO to eradicate the problem.

i saw a big ol mama raccoon and her two babies hanging out in a driveway next to my old apartment a few times. they were just chillin' in the corner and the babies were playin.

Santa wrote: one of them stole two shirts I had drying on my fire escape.

kinds sucked.

They're just washing them

Santa wrote: one of them stole two shirts I had drying on my fire escape.

kinds sucked.

fashion forward raccoons.


only in brooklyn...

Brooklyn has always been the ancestral home of the Loyal Order of Raccoons. The organization's roots are murky but it may have started in Bushwick before World War II. The Raccoons had its heyday in 1950's Bensonhurst. Their most celebrated annual party was in 1956 when a member who was an employee of what is now called the Department of Environmental Protection won for his costume entitled "Man From Space" beating out a fellow Raccoon, who toiled daily for what is now MTA Buses and came costumed as a pinball machine. A film record exists of the party, and it is occasionally played on television around New Year's Day.

Does anyone know what they taste like? If they're any good I might go out some night and.....

Rabid raccoons tend to either be obviously sick--movement looks like it's drunk--or are wild and ready to attack. I unfortunately know this from multiple experiences. The later is much more rare but something to fear!

Also, they are nocturnal so if you see one out of the trees in the middle of the day, it's probably sick in some way so avoid it.

A raccoon the size of a medium-sized dog tried to get into one of our traps when we were doing trap-neuter-return at the Bergen lot last week. We're worried it may have bit one of the ferals in a fight since the kitty has a huge bite wound in his chest that's now infected. Ew. Good thing we trapped the bastard and got him some antibiotics along with a nut job (neuter).

I love all animals, but be careful out there. Raccoons can get territorial, especially if there's food involved.

[quote="OpossumQueen"]I helped animal control catch a few of the docile rabid critters many moons ago in Arkansas.

My scary close encounter with the wild kind was in North Carolina. I was heading home at night on a bike trail and the little bastard charged me (making noises I thought only existed in bad horror flicks) and managed to attach itself to the bottom of my bike frame. I was going fast enough to toss my legs up and coast while trying to shake and yell at it until it fell off. Luckily it didn't get me, but I never went on my beloved trails after dark again. All I was thinking about was the giant needles they use on you when you've been exposed to rabies!! I was volunteering at the county shelter at the time and know that several rabid raccoons and one rabid fox had been caught and some had even bitten kids in the area!



Christ that's scary, I thought they were cute little fuzzy creatures that washed their food and dined with untensils. I didn't know they are homicidal maniacs that bikejack strangers. Thanks for the tip

Smokin' Joe wrote: very funny. although i don't get the new year's reference. a particular episode?

as to the real critters, there have been several threads on raccoons in the hood before. i was going to link to one here but then i discovered the new brooklynian search engine. i guess this is changing the thread and maybe i should post this elsewhere, but have others tried it? i'm not sure when it got changed but previously you could search within different message boards and your search would yield a list of threads with the search term in it. now you get separate hits for every post that mentions the search term, which, imo, is overload and makes it difficult to find things. fwiw.

anyway, i saw a couple in my back yard a while back, huge ones and completely unconcerned by my presence, which i previously posted about. . . somewhere. . .

WPIX-TV usually shows a "Honeymooners" marathon New Year's Day. Many episodes in glorious monochrome, with our heroes Ralph and Ed wearing the uniform of the Raccoons.
Bang-zoom!

Subject: Loyal Order of Raccoons

dw438 wrote: Brooklyn has always been the ancestral home of the Loyal Order of Raccoons. The organization's roots are murky but it may have started in Bushwick before World War II. The Raccoons had its heyday in 1950's Bensonhurst. Their most celebrated annual party was in 1956 when a member who was an employee of what is now called the Department of Environmental Protection won for his costume entitled "Man From Space" beating out a fellow Raccoon, who toiled daily for what is now MTA Buses and came costumed as a pinball machine. A film record exists of the party, and it is occasionally played on television around New Year's Day.

NEW YORK, December 17, 2007—Ring in the New Year with Ralphie Boy! A holiday tradition, the CW11/WPIX, Tribune Broadcasting's New York's CW affiliate, will air a marathon of 30 classic Honeymooners episodes beginning Monday, December 31st at midnight.

The CW11/WPIX will air 15-hours of hamana-hamana-hamana hijinks with Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason), Ed Norton (Art Carney), Alice Kramden (Audrey Meadows) and Trixie Norton (Joyce Randolph). The WPIX Honeymooners Marathon runs from midnight to 5 am on New Year's Eve (with a break for the CW 11 Morning News from 5-9 am) and returns at 9am on New Year's Day.

Don't miss these treasured episodes:

12am — 'Twas The Night Before Christmas
12:30am — Young at Heart
1am — The Sleepwalker
1:30am — Dial J for Janitor
2am — Hero, Part 1
2:30am — Hero, Part 2
3am — Brother-in-Law
3:30am — Ralph's Sweet Tooth
4am — Boys and Girls Together
4:30am — Expectant Father
5-9 am — CW11 Morning News
9am — Head of the House
9:30am — Ralph Kramden, Inc.
10am — Pardon My Glove
10:30am — Opportunity Knocks, But
11am — Love Letter
11:30am — Hot Dog Stand
12pm — A Matter of Life & Death
12:30pm — Kramden vs. Norton
1pm — Please Leave the Premises
1:30pm — On Stage
2pm — The Golfer
2:30pm — TV or Not TV
3pm — The $99,000 Answer
3:30pm — Mama Loves Mambo
4pm — A Matter of Record
4:30pm — Unconventional Behavior
5pm — Better Living Through TV
5:30pm — Trapped
6pm — The Babysitter
6:30pm — Oh My Aching Back

CW11/WPIX-TV is your home for the Honeymooners, with the marathon tradition beginning in 1976, and airing on New Year's Eve annually since 1996