fishie
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That tells one little or nothing. We live <300 metres from a major ravine. We have it all - racoons, skunks, possums, hares, foxes and once in a while a coyote. Every year there is a least one racoon family that marches through our back yard on a clockwork daily schedule. For all of that, our green box is tipped over maybe 3 or 4 times a year and actually comes unlatched from that maybe once in a year. We have lived here since well before the first green boxes came along and this has always been our experience - and I have not seen or heard anything to suggest that our neighbours' experience is any worse.
I stand by my assessment: he is making up BS 'tales of racoon stand-offs' because he thinks that will make him look like a 'regular guy'. They are no more believable than his claim that he is "the best Dad there is" and his favourite leisure activity is doing laundry (altho' I can conceive that he may sneak in and out of the Grand Hotel through its laundry room).
Okay, so is your point that these stand-offs don't happen in general or that RoFo is exaggerating, because they sure happened to me (and often!) when I lived in N. Toronto. But it's okay, it's in the past and I've moved on.
Growing up (outside T.O.), I also lived on a ravine (well, more of an erosion with trees on the edge of a forest thing) and had all manner of critters marching about. But we kept our unsorted garbage in those classic aluminum cans inside a storage box inside the garage so it was pretty well protected, unless someone forgot to close the garage door, or as it happened on at least a couple of times, a raccoon managed to wander into the garage undetected before the door was closed and we'd wake up to a garage resembling the interior of a frat house.
Hey, I just want to know why he keeps his bins in front of the garage instead of inside. Might help with his "stand-off" issue, assuming he has one. Plus he could try rinsing out his peanut butter jars etc. before pitching them. No idea if he does or not, but it just seems like a RoFo thing not to do.
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