Posts Tagged ‘raccoon’

Do MUNI Bus Drivers Feed Raccoons at Night? Signs Point to YES

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Via the Legion of Honor’s Facebook, comes a link to this outstanding capture from Plomomedia’s Flickr Photostream.

Here it is full-size.

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Of course, there are scores of raccoons in the area. But is there a reason that this gaze would congregate at a Yelp-rated #18 46th Ave bus?

Well, if the well-paid gardeners and maintenance workers of Strybing Arboretum carry around cans of catfood for the red foxes, why can’t bus operators have a little fun too?

Masked Bandit Caught at San Francisco Fine Arts Museum

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Caught on film, that is. This cute raccoon felt right at home cruising around the grounds of the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco. Raccoons seem to love living on the streets of the City, so there’s a lot of them around. Especially at night.

The NIMBYs must have had a fit when they saw this glass pyramid on the grounds of a historic museum: 

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Sometimes, it’s a regular raccoon party up there.  So be on the lookout for these “pushing hungry” critters the next time you’re doing an illicit midnight photo shoot at the ‘zeum.

The vary same bandit, from last year:

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via panavatar’s photostream 

But San Francisco wants you to stay away from these wild animals, on account of the possibilty of them transmitting rabies. Fair enough.