# From the "Canadians are weird" files - The Dead Raccoon Caper

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 10, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-canadians-are-weird-files-the-dead-raccoon-caper/724789 "2015-07-10T19:41:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-canadians-are-weird-files-the-dead-raccoon-caper/724789/1 "2015-07-10T19:41:53Z")

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[Not sure whether to laugh or go “Eh?”](http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/toronto-honours-dead-raccoon-heres-what-happened-/54036/)

But it does put my ravening squirrel gang population in perspective.

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-canadians-are-weird-files-the-dead-raccoon-caper/724789/2 "2015-07-10T19:45:44Z")

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OMG, I am burning to move to Toronto all of sudden. They seem like my kind of folks! 😃

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**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-canadians-are-weird-files-the-dead-raccoon-caper/724789/3 "2015-07-10T20:23:26Z")

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I don’t understand what’s so weird about it, after all, they did elected Rob Ford once upon a time!

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-canadians-are-weird-files-the-dead-raccoon-caper/724789/4 "2015-07-10T20:30:22Z")

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I swear, too many people in Toronto seem to think that a raccoon is as rare as an unicorn.