Masked marauders: Multiple raccoons take over the library at Arkansas State

[TexasTowelie]

JONESBORO, Ark. — An Arkansas State University alumnus says he was surprised to spot a few curious critters running around the campus library.

Codie Clark, a math tutor, says he spotted at least two raccoons Sunday on the third floor of the university's Dean B. Ellis Library while waiting for a student to arrive for a tutoring session. Clark says other students then cornered one raccoon.

Associate Vice Chancellor for Marketing and Communications Bill Smith told KAIT-TV that the school's facility management personnel humanely trapped the animals after being notified by library staff.

Clark says an animal rescuer released the racoons back into the wild that night.

Read more: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/arkansas/story/2019/oct/30/masked-marauders-multiple-raccoons-take-over-library-arkansas-state/801894/


A raccoon walks between stacks of books Sunday at the Arkansas State University's Dean B. Ellis Library in Jonesboro, Ark. Clark, a math tutor and ASU alumnus, said he spotted at least two raccoons on the the third floor of the library while waiting for a student to arrive for a tutoring session. Photo by Codie Clark via AP

[5X]

1. So, they weren't razorbacks but racoons all along. n/t

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Rabies while you read. How lovely.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. Oh stop.

Not all raccoons are rabid. Obviously these weren’t.

[LuvNewcastle]

7. They can carry rabies and not show signs.

They can be vicious, too. If you ever get too close to one and get bitten, your doctor will have to send you for rabies shots. I don't want those things anywhere around me any more than I would want to be in a room with rattlesnakes.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. Welllll...I still like them. 😊

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. Maybe there wasn't anything on tv?

[mfcorey1]

5. "Reading brings us unknown friends" - Honore Balzac

[SergeStorms]

6. Q. What have these raccoons done.....

that the current president of the United States hasn't done?

A. Visited a depository of knowledge, a Library, at least once in their lives.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I have a very brave raccoon that cleans up the cat food bowls

on my back porch, comes to the door and begs for more. He's not afraid of me and I can get within a foot of him before he runs.