BLITZKRIEG!
Mit a bushy tail!
Apparently, Europe is being overrun with the little bastards.
Is anyones garbage can safe?
Have they reached England? Ireland? Rome? If Rome, have they tried to steal the Pope’s lunch? 
Your Raccoon stories, Eurodopers?
They haven’t reached the shores of England yet, but if they do,
We shall fight them on the beaches.
We shall fight them in the dumpsters.
We shall fight them in the forests and in the landfills.
And we shall never surrender our half-eaten burgers.
(Ever noticed how Churchill sometimes sounds like Dr Seuss?)
I live in Italy and have never seen a raccoon here, nazi or otherwise. I’ll let you know if there are any changes as the situation develops…
A USA raccoon tale;
“The closing of the Passover seder is highlighted by the ‘Redemption Theme’, as well as a reminder that the joyous festival of Passover is to be shared with the less fortunate. The Prophet Elijah, symbol of the humble wayfarer, is invited to enter the home through the symbolic opening of the front door to the house.”
At our first Passover seder I opened the door for Elijah to find a very large raccoon sitting on the porch.
I guess when Europe is overrun by Nazi Raccoons, and the British hedgehogs and French squirrels have had to retreat at Dunkirk, we’ll have to wait for the Japanese Tanuki to drop their balls over Pearl Harbor and then mount a new invasion with assistance from the US Raccoon Army (oversexed, overpaid, and over my trash).
And did you let Elijah in?
[Artie Johnson]
Veeeeeeeeeeddy Intedesting.
But shtupit.
[/AJ]
[sub]Good night, Lucy.[/sub]
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Originally Posted by carnivorousplant
At our first Passover seder I opened the door for Elijah to find a very large raccoon sitting on the porch.
“MOOOMMMMIIEEEE! Elijah’s been rooting through the garbage again!”
“Blast it! Elijah ate all the new corn from the garden!”
Mel Gibson: " Elijah killed my cat! I’m gonna make a movie that’ll so get even…"
I hope it will not lower anyone’s great respect for our public media if I point out that the picture in that story is not of raccoons :). That’s a pair of raccoon dogs ( Nyctereutes procynoides ). See here:
http://www.lioncrusher.com/animal.asp?animal=25
These are raccoons ( for you euordopers unfamiliar with the little bandits - I saw one just last night at work ):
http://www.lioncrusher.com/animal.asp?animal=82
I never thought that it might prove interesting one day, but i lived in Kassel for several years, most of the time one house before the forest, finally even in the former official head forester’s residence (build 1934, still owned by the forestry office, my parents still live there)
So I was as close to the source of nazi raccoons as it gets.
Yes, they were real “raccoon” raccoons, not raccoon dogs (“Waschbär” in German.)
In that area they are the only animals that forage your garbage cans.
They have no natural predators in Germany except my former neighbour whom I would never accuse of hunting them illegally. He just fired his shotgun accidently at night on a regular basis.
oh, and there is at least one competing story of their origin. They might also have escaped accidently from a fur-bearing-ainmal ranch (what’s the word for that?) in the same area.
Oh and a little poking around seems to indicate that raccoons were introduced into Germany via some escapees from a fur-farm in Hesse in 1934.
Yeah, yeah - I’m a killjoy :D.
I think this may be closer to what is causing the problems in Europe. Guess he’s earning frequent flyer points.
This is the American Payback for sending us The Snail.
Why won’t these little nazi fuckers come to Holland, like their masters so gladly did? We could use the wildlife diversity!
Thanks kellner, for providing the German translation. I now realise that a raccoon is the same thing we call a wasbeer in Dutch. Hey, I’ve never even seen one (maybe in a zoo?), so don’t blame me for my ignorance.
And had you saved a glass of wine at the head of the table for Elijah?
(Hmmm, drunken raccoons. That’s a terrifying prospect…drunken wild creatures with opposable thumbs and no remorse.)
I’m not European, but I love the l’il bastards.
[CCR] do do do lookin’ out my back door! [/CCR]
HE’S RIGHT! :eek:
That’s a first for you, isn’t it Tamerlane? 
Forget the raccoons , we have something much worse that has been imported from the US into the UK. This is a tree disease which could wipe out a vast number of oak and other varieties. We had the same thing in the 70’s with Dutch Elm disease where about 90% of that species died.