wow... hope your ankles are ok. Have you got a doctor to check them? =o Isn't it part of all those fire warning thingies that you should throw a matress out before you jump to save yourself from injuries like shattered legs and stuff?
Either way, good luck on finding a new place! ~gives karma a cookie~
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In future houses, I would advise you to have a slide from your bedroom window to the ground, with cushions at the bottom. You can slide down all of your important posessions without damaging them. And yourself. Of course.
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
Well, here's a sit rep for y'all. I've moved sucessfully back into the sticks. The old house is doin alright, power and phones are working good. The dog loves the space, we don't have a neighbor for 2 miles. I lived out here till I was 10, almost forgot how nice it is. Only problem, im gonna go have to do battle with a family of raccoons in the cellar. Wish me luck, i'll tell you how it goes.
If you want I can come over to your house on night and set a small part of it on fire.. it can be a game!
Best of luck BadKarma.. You should probably.. I don't know... Invest in water sprinklers and fire hoses in every room of your house, and next time the Evil Fire Gods try to take your home, you wake up, figure out where it is, and hose the hell out of it!
I hope the new house is decent enough... do you have a digicam?
<!--QuoteBegin-BadKarma+Aug 29 2004, 04:19 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BadKarma @ Aug 29 2004, 04:19 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Geuss I need to explain this a bit. I wake up about 3 in the morning to the cheerful and familiar ringing of smoke alarms. I get up, notice the haze of smoke that I have stuck my head into and promptly hit the deck. I pull on a jacket and boots, grab my laptop, wallet and Ruger, throw a chair out of my window and follow it with myself. 10 feet later, i look around to see my Dad did the same and lie back down on account of my rapidly swelling ankles. Then we both sit back and watch the mother burn. Fun stuff really. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Christ, you let your mother burn? <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
<!--QuoteBegin-Tequila+Aug 29 2004, 07:28 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tequila @ Aug 29 2004, 07:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Christ, you let your mother burn? <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> My mom died on Boxing Day, "watched the mother burn" refers to the house, burning.
Right the racoons. I go down to the cellar, pitch dark, so i bring the mag-lite. Pistol in one hand, torch in the other i search the place. I heard typical raccon noises comin from the pickle closet so i kicked it open, ready to blast some rodent ****... And couldnt do it. It's a mother raccoon with about 4 little ones doin the suckling at the teats thing. Just couldnt do it. I dunno what to do with em now, suggestions?
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
I am in a community of four houses separated by about 2 miles each, town is a good 40 minutes drive away and it aint much of a town. Animal control in these parts is a 12 gauge.
See if you can borrow a box trap from someone to catch the mother in, the babies shouldn't hurt you, but gloves are always a good idea. Then you can release or whatever.
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
I have attmepted the box-them-and-release-them method I have found it to pure folly. I repeat, do not attempt to box racoons. I am going to take an iodine bath and go to sleep.
ThansalThe New ScumJoin Date: 2002-08-22Member: 1215Members, Constellation
owww
what you want though is a humaine trap.
basicaly they are cages that you place some sorta bait in. Once they touch the bait the door slams down. Similar in concept to a normal mouse/rat trap, however the door is beind them, instead of on thei necks (My family has always ussed these, especialy for squirls <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
oh, and go and get a friken tetnus shot, and probably rabies (I don't remember is rabies can be carried dorment or not, I think it can though)
oh, and I missread this: <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> /trite Taaaalk about BadKarma, who were you in a past life, Nero?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> as Necro <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
You said they were in a.. cupboard, or something? Grab a plastic box [that won't be ripped apart by them], hold it in front of the cupboard, and tilt the cupboard so they fall into the box. It doesn't have to be gentle, they'll survive. If you can't tilt whatever it's in, grab a broom and just firmly 'sweep' them in.. replace the box lid immediately after <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> They key is to get the mother... hopefully most of the kids will be attached to her, and any left overs you can just drop in through a half-way lifted lid.
Then take them out about 1 mile, and ditch them. Clean whatever they were living in afterwards.
ThansalThe New ScumJoin Date: 2002-08-22Member: 1215Members, Constellation
Pickle closset
wth a pickle closset is I can only guess (I am assuiming it is the same as a wine celler, an area designed to have the corect temp/hmidity year round for.... making/keeping pickles?)
Just a thought but is it possible to get a sprinkler system put into your house? With your history of firey luck I'd definitely try to get one put in... just in case ^^;
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
edited August 2004
A pickle closet is the part of a cellar where you keep your pickled goods. And, my resolve strengthened by the boxing incident, I calmy walked down there this morning and dispatched each of the little bastards. In other news, I saw a crazy lookin animal down by the lake. It was kinda far away, but it was goddamn huge. Im thinkin it musta been a bear, im gonna get my shotgun back from my uncle this afternoon. Again, wish me luck.
Ah I hope you get through this alright. This happened to a close friend of mine before, nothing was left after the fire was put out. Fortunately our little neighborhood chipped in and donated money so they could get their lives back together.
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Isn't it part of all those fire warning thingies that you should throw a matress out before you jump to save yourself from injuries like shattered legs and stuff?
Either way, good luck on finding a new place! ~gives karma a cookie~
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In future houses, I would advise you to have a slide from your bedroom window to the ground, with cushions at the bottom. You can slide down all of your important posessions without damaging them. And yourself. Of course.
May as well be prepared for Number Four.
Best wishes!
On another note, I need me some action in my life too!
Best of luck BadKarma.. You should probably.. I don't know... Invest in water sprinklers and fire hoses in every room of your house, and next time the Evil Fire Gods try to take your home, you wake up, figure out where it is, and hose the hell out of it!
I hope the new house is decent enough... do you have a digicam?
Sometimes I wish my house would burn down though.
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My mom died on Boxing Day, "watched the mother burn" refers to the house, burning.
Right the racoons. I go down to the cellar, pitch dark, so i bring the mag-lite. Pistol in one hand, torch in the other i search the place. I heard typical raccon noises comin from the pickle closet so i kicked it open, ready to blast some rodent ****... And couldnt do it. It's a mother raccoon with about 4 little ones doin the suckling at the teats thing. Just couldnt do it. I dunno what to do with em now, suggestions?
Or prepare a nice white-wine and garlic sauce to go with them.
BTW with your luck you should play Lotto or such o.O
I hope it won't happen again...
/me wonders when the first pictures of nukes will appear....
what you want though is a humaine trap.
basicaly they are cages that you place some sorta bait in. Once they touch the bait the door slams down. Similar in concept to a normal mouse/rat trap, however the door is beind them, instead of on thei necks (My family has always ussed these, especialy for squirls <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
oh, and go and get a friken tetnus shot, and probably rabies (I don't remember is rabies can be carried dorment or not, I think it can though)
oh, and I missread this:
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/trite
Taaaalk about BadKarma, who were you in a past life, Nero?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Then take them out about 1 mile, and ditch them. Clean whatever they were living in afterwards.
wth a pickle closset is I can only guess (I am assuiming it is the same as a wine celler, an area designed to have the corect temp/hmidity year round for.... making/keeping pickles?)
Failing both of those, teh broom will do great justice....
Or maybe rat poison, but I doubt you have any. You know that raccoons eat almost anything right?
*awaits raccoon murderer comments*
"Daaaad, There's no milk for my cereal"
*Takes out a shotgun*
"Just move out of the way, son, let me get a good LOS at it"
*Cha-Chik*