Stop the Trains!
- A raccoon perilously close to the CTA Red Line tracks at the Cermak station in Chinatown was rescued Friday morning after service was temporarily stopped.
Crews spotted “a masked bandit with four legs, AKA a raccoon,” about 8:45 a.m. on a sign over the right of way near the platform at the Cermak/Chinatown station, 138 W. Cermak Road, according to CTA spokesman Jon Kaplan.
Power was cut, and a Chicago Police and Animal Care and Control officer eventually made his way to the scene to remove the raccoon without incident. Service has since resumed.
"Perilously close?" You know what we pass every night on the way home? Two or three dead raccoons. And Chicago doesn't seem to be suffering from any shortages of raccoons, opossums, skunks or rats.
A raccoon tops out at twenty pounds. According to the CTA, one of their 5500 Series cars weighs about 57,000 pounds empty. It doesn't seem like that much of an issue.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
47 Comments:
Cute little guy.
He is cute though. I’d rather be around him than most bosses anyways
I’d rather see a four-legged “masked bandit” get rescued than any variety of the two legged type, any day.
not to be confused with the usual masked bandits on the red line with two legs
Looks like Rahm' half brother, the missing link from Wilmette !!!!!!!!!!!!!
A lot of raccoons are meandering around Chicago without any fear of humans...if they only knew..
Supposedly it's the ones with distemper that act like this.
At the Cermak station? Could have ended up as the daily carryout special.
Hey, racoons are people too.
If the CTA has to shut down for 30 minutes at the cost of a few thousand dollars to taxpayers....its all worth it.
Racoon lives matter.
Raccoon lives matter
GMFM
Hahahahaha...that picture is priceless. He was just trying to get the f*ck outta the 'hood before he got shot🔫🔫! 😂😂
Testing has established that the Chinatown raccoon has a 97% match with Emanuel's DNA.
The lil fuck looks like tiny dancer.
Awwww, but he's so cute SCC...
When raccoons tried to get on our back porch, Mama just chased em off with a broom
I'd like to purchase a 5500 series in good
condition for remodeling as a tiny house.
It sure beats the run of the mill surplus
cargo container and surely my creation
will grace the pages of Archetictural Digest.
(signed) I.M. Pei, age 100
That's rahm incognito, he still enjoys riding the cta to work without his security staff...
(Silliness on)
Offender last seen hopping the turnstiles at the Red Line
It’s for the snowflakes.
The headline is wrong. They thought it was "Raccoon Eyes" Rahm.
At first I thought you were talking about Rahm
Raccoons look cute, but they can be nasty little bastards, just like Rahm.
Liberals, you never cease to amaze me with your stupidity. Whats next? We close down a major expressway for a squirrel crossing the lanes.
That raccoon is my friend. Leave him alone SCC!
Raccoon looks like Rham except the raccoon is bigger. Smarter too.
Power is cut......animal control gets there in a heartbeat.....raccoon rescued....meanwhile pit bulls are biting mail carriers, I have to stay lock and loaded when my kids are out front playing due to pit bull owners letting their darling lil pitties and other mongrels escape and when animal control is called it takes hours but hey no problem shutting down a red line train and making people late for a raccoon because for this animal control will be right out. This fucking city.......
20lbs.?
Most are around that weight, but it’s not uncommon for them to grow much larger in cities. Chicago is like a buffet for these menaces.
My neighbors trapped an aggressive giant weighing 42 lbs.
The beast was trying to rip the second floor bathroom window off to get in last fall.
They’re nasty, evil creatures loaded with disease. Very prone to rabies.
Oppussums on the other hand, are our friends. They leave you alone, are rabies resistant, and eat all kinds vermin for us.
grab on as tight as you can rham.
your city hall gig is slipping away.
They had to save him.
He had a new city ID
and a vote for Rahm button.
this city has a serious chipgopher problem.
Surprised he made it out alive for being so close to Chinatown.
WBBM described the raccoon as being rescued?
Sounds to me like he was captured? Do you think
when we arrest dude he thinks he was rescued?
Fits right in... with the other red line rodents. Only less hyper violent.
Yet call animal control to remove a vicious dog and wait three and a half hours till it slinks away to terrorize someone some where else
No shortage of "RATS" in shitcago, 4 or 2 legged especially of the democ"rat" variety!
Saved the racoon because they thought he was a voter. No doubt voted in the last election!
I trust the raccoon that ravages through my garbage cans every night more than any politician. At least the raccoon is honest about what he's taking.
Anonymous said...
Liberals, you never cease to amaze me with your stupidity. Whats next? We close down a major expressway for a squirrel crossing the lanes.
5/05/2018 06:54:00 AM
Squirrels? We have no deal with them!!!
Just last week one of the glorious 016 desk Officers on afternoon took a phone call from a frantic concerned citizen regarding a racoon and babies in the middle of Cicero ave about get run over. The softball then got on the radio to dispatch a unit to handle the rodent crossing , the best was when the assigned unit arrived, “ ok squad, all dead 19 Paul !! Poor desk personnel couldn’t eat their lunch after that.
I trust the raccoon that ravages through my garbage cans every night more than any politician. At least the raccoon is honest about what he's taking.
5/05/2018 12:40:00 PM
Of course.
The raccoon is taking what you no longer find of value, what you have no use for and, thus, have discarded.
The politicians do the exact opposite.
Parasites so stupid that they'd kill the host in their frenzy of greed.
One of the few valuable reasons for there to be death to all bodies.
This is a win for us! A delagation of racoons will have input in our next contract. That's right RCL (Racoon Lives Matter).
Anonymous said...
Liberals, you never cease to amaze me with your stupidity. Whats next? We close down a major expressway for a squirrel crossing the lanes.
5/05/2018 06:54:00 AM
Squirrels? We have no deal with them!!!
"Maybe it'll be fun having a pet?"
"It's not a pet. It's a wild invalid. And it knows that I tried to kill it. As soon as it gets better, it's gonna gnaw my brain out in my sleep."
That raccoon would be supper in Arkansas.
The ratcoon looks like Rahm
Rahm? Same eyes, a couple pounds less, but could it be? Maybe it is Rahm trying to get out on his own before he gets kicked out! Screw it run him over. It’s not the bus, but it will do.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The ratcoon looks like Rahm
5/06/2018 12:55:00 AM
Show some respect.
Quit offending rats and racoons.
Makes me want to harpoon a whale.
A raccoon tops out at twenty pounds. According to the CTA, one of their 5500 Series cars weighs about 57,000 pounds empty. It doesn't seem like that much of an issue.
Maybe so. Rudyard Kipling wrote a story (".007") about locomotives in a railyard, as if they were sentient co-workers. One of them gets derailed by a shoat (baby pig) getting under his wheels. Kipling did his homework, so it surely happened. a coon might do the same.
Just A Civilian (who has seen dozens of raccoons lined up at the fence of Graceland Cemetery, chowing down on bread tossed in by visitors)
Racoons are a nuisance in Wyoming, trap them and put them out were the Golden Eagles can find them.
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