September 15, 2006: Fattest raccoon
 

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Another Neatorama entry today, the official cap via the source:

Holy Shit, that'd make a great coat!

Palmerton: the Zinc capitol of the world.

Let's not forget how much stew he'd make either.

and a coupla pairs o' hefty mukluks.

Anybody else think that the lady in the picture sort of resembles Maggie?

30 more pounds and that coat is complete.

mittens to go with the coat!

I like coon steaks.

Tell me you don't mean that? you eat raccoons :shock:

I trapped these things for fur many moons ago. We considered a 20 lb coon huge. We got 12 -18 bucks for the animals depending on their size. There are people on the southside of town that would give you 5-10 bucks for him to eat. I tried it once with hot sauce and sweet taters (slow baked). Not bad but not my cup of tea. When we would sell one for people to eat it would be skinned already (of course...since we were harvesting hides). Nobody would buy it unless you left a foot on him. That way they were sure it was a racoon and not some other animal. Sheesh.

WOW!!

You know... it would also make a hell of a bowling bag... just hollow it out and use the hands and feet for the handles :-) You'd even have room for the shoes.

You could also use the tail for a ball polisher and store your bowling gloves in the head!

Okay... I am spending waaaaaaaaay too much time alone. I really have to get a girlfriend.

Acroyear

Lucas missed an opportunity to incorporate womp rats into one of the prequels. I would have liked to see some nasty big rat munching on a moisture evaporator, or whatever they eat.