DUmmies Discuss Raccoons - Coon-Bit DUmmy Aerows Chimes In

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Sun Mar 8, 2015, 10:45 PM
Star Member Liberal_in_LA (35,328 posts)

carpenter fired for saving raccoon in trap at construction site


Carpenter Todd Sutton showed up to work one recent morning at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion project and found he wasn’t alone.
Inside a metal trap on the construction site was a raccoon. The animal had been causing trouble, as raccoons are known to do, so the builders hired professional trappers to have it removed and euthanized

Sutton, 49, knew the animal’s fate, and as he and several others stood around the cage that morning, he felt compelled to act. But the choice he made to save the raccoon frustrated his employers — and cost Sutton his job.

“I was just doing what I thought was right,” Sutton said. “He was just a little baby. I said, 'I’m not going to let this happen. I’m going to do what is necessary for this raccoon.’”
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Sutton recalled that he “told everybody else to scatter” before he grabbed the cage and put it in the bed of his pickup truck, which was parked nearby.

That afternoon, he said, he got a call from his boss, a superintendent with RFJ Meiswinkel Co., a firm subcontracted by Webcor Builders, the project’s general contractor.

Sutton said Webcor asked that he be removed from the museum project and that his boss at RFJ Meiswinkel opted to fire him outright.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026334505#post3

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 12:49 AM
Aerows (29,627 posts)
16. I'm puzzled why they fired him.

Anybody?

See, DUmmy Aerows?

This is why we call you a DUmmy.

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 01:57 AM
Star Member Voice for Peace (12,047 posts)
26. my guess is they don't like tree huggers and this was an opportunity.

forgive the cynicism.

Coon-bit DUmmy Aerows lectures on coon fun facts:

Sun Mar 8, 2015, 11:27 PM
Aerows (29,627 posts)
9. I fully expect to get made fun of

because I chose to post in a thread about raccoons, but they are absolutely fascinating creatures. I'm what you would call a "part time ecologist", and I like to study wildlife. I am in a location that I have that unique opportunity to do so, and I make use of it.

You must be careful of them. They don't come by themselves - a pack of raccoons with two full grown adults and some yearlings is a hazard. The fact that they are so social indicates that domestication would be easy, but you have other factors to take into consideration.

Sun Mar 8, 2015, 11:46 PM
Star Member Liberal_in_LA (35,328 posts)
10. why would you be made fun of? thanks for info on raccoons

Response to Liberal_in_LA (Reply #10)Sun Mar 8, 2015, 11:54 PM
Aerows (29,627 posts)
11. Everyone makes fun of me

because I got bitten by one and had to undergo the rabies series, which is not a pleasant (or inexpensive - $19,000)experience.

It was $18,000. She must have racked up some interest charges.

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 12:17 AM
Star Member Liberal_in_LA (35,328 posts)
14. glad you got thru that experience

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 12:33 AM
Aerows (29,627 posts)
15. I did

and it has made me more cautious in my observation of wildlife, but has also made me realize what a great opportunity I also have.

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 12:58 AM
OnyxCollie (8,684 posts)
17. You answered your question

as to why the carpenter got fired.

A contractor who puts himself into a situation that could potentially lead to a very expensive workman's compensation case is going to get canned.

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 01:09 AM
Aerows (29,627 posts)
21. Unfortunately

yes. Raccoons are dangerous. They look fluffy and friendly, but can be extremely malicious. They are friendly and adept and if that can be harnessed, it would be a benefit.

You just have to keep in mind the 42 teeth in their mouths. Along with the fact that the don't come alone, they come in packs.

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 01:12 AM
Aerows (29,627 posts)
22. They are nothing to fool with

They are extremely intelligent, and way too prolific of breeding to discount.

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 01:05 AM
Star Member BlueJazz (21,606 posts)
19. He's a cutie-pie anyway.

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 02:06 AM
Star Member Ken Burch (35,378 posts)
28. Why wasn't it enough for them that the raccoon was out of the museum?

Why were they so fixated on killing the damn thing?

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 10:15 AM
Blue_Tires (40,230 posts)
44. Having battled raccoons before, I say KILL that little disease-spreading shit

There's only a jillion of those critters in the local vicinity, so I don't see the harm of one less pest...

Let that carpenter start working for PETA if he wants to save animals...

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 12:00 PM
DetlefK (4,122 posts)
52. Imagine the headline: "carpenter fired for saving rat at construction site"

Oh, that poor little rat that pissed and shit everywhere and ruined materials at the construction site! It looks like a baby! Must save it!

[Carl]

The owners spent money to eradicate a problem,this doofus undid that on his own.
Why is it so hard to figure out why he was fired?

[Skul]

 

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 10:15 AM
Blue_Tires (40,230 posts)
44. Having battled raccoons before, I say KILL that little disease-spreading shit

There's only a jillion of those critters in the local vicinity, so I don't see the harm of one less pest...

Let that carpenter start working for PETA if he wants to save animals...

I can't believe that came from a primitive,    DUmpmonkey!

[miskie]

The owners spent money to eradicate a problem,this doofus undid that on his own.
Why is it so hard to figure out why he was fired?

That's the bottom line, right here. The construction company paid for a service to be performed. This worker took it upon himself to ruin the investment intentionally. It has nothing to do with how 'cute and fuzzy' he might have thought the raccoon to be, nor was it his call to set it free because it was young. Most wild animals who are willing to interfere with human affairs instead of running off are problematic, and exterminating them is often the only way to remove them from the equation.

[DUmpsterDiver]

Around here Raccoons are welcome to either get shot on sight or let the dogs have a piece of the action.

[Carl]

Response to Voice for Peace (Reply #26)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 02:10 AM

Star Member Ken Burch (35,378 posts)
29. Sounds at least possible.

Also, maybe they are the sort of management that can't tolerate anybody doing anything in a way that is not exactly to their specifications. They could have felt threatened by the presence somebody who thought for himself.

Good God they just keep digging the stupid pit deeper and deeper every day.

[obumazombie]

Sun Mar 8, 2015, 11:27 PM
Aerows (29,627 posts)
9. I fully expect to get made fun of

because I chose to post in a thread about raccoons, but they are absolutely fascinating creatures. I'm what you would call a "part time ecologist", and I like to study wildlife. I am in a location that I have that unique opportunity to do so, and I make use of it.

You must be careful of them. They don't come by themselves - a pack of raccoons with two full grown adults and some yearlings is a hazard. The fact that they are so social indicates that domestication would be easy, but you have other factors to take into consideration.

In cousin nadin's absence we may have a suitable facsimile.
If Aerows stays at it we may have to keep track of all her accomplishments with a curriculum vitae thread.

[BlueStateSaint]

Blue_Tires answers it for me . . .

[JohnnyReb]

Was the 'coon a blue gum?

[Skul]

Was the 'coon a blue gum?

They don't say. I do have reliable information that the coon that bit Aerows, had the dry heaves for some time afterwards.

[SVPete]

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 01:57 AM
Star Member Voice for Peace (12,047 posts)
26. my guess is they don't like tree huggers and this was an opportunity.

forgive the cynicism.

My guess is the management didn't want the raccoon released to come back and do further destruction.

Forgive me for having a firm grasp on the grossly obvious!

These twits need a family of raccoons living, defecating, and urinating in their attic or crawl space and raiding their garbage every night!

[obumazombie]

My guess is the management didn't want the raccoon released to come back and do further destruction.

Forgive me for having a firm grasp on the grossly obvious!

These twits need a family of raccoons living, defecating, and urinating in their attic or crawl space and raiding their garbage every night!

How could the libs ever live without the NIMBY principle ?