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Raccoon with its head stuck in a sewer grate rescued with some liberal use of olive oil

By adamg on Thu, 08/01/2024 - 11:26pm
Raccoon still stuck in sewer grate

Rocky before nearby resident showed up with some olive oil. Photo by Cambridge FD.

Cambridge Day reports how Cambridge firefighters, DPW workers and Animal Control teamed up - with the help of an olive-oil donation by a nearby resident - to free a raccoon that somehow got stuck in a sewer grate on Harvey Street in North Cambridge today.

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By cybah on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 7:31am.

aw poor thing.

The picture above doesn't do this justice...

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This pic.. aw man.. melts me. Poor thing's facial expression is saying "please help me"

I wish Raccoons weren't awful creatures cuz they are so freakin cute sometimes.

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By brianjdamico on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 9:18am.

I will take no further questions on this matter.

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By cybah on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 9:32am.

Talk to anyone who has had a raccoon issue with their trash. No matter what you do, the raccoon is smarter and will bypass anything you do for food.

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By brianjdamico on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 9:54am.

I've done bits of support work for wildlife medicine and rehab and they are devious. Some of them could probably figure out how to escape from a cell at the Supermax. El Chapo has nothing on raccoons.

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By Pete X on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 12:59pm.

some of them get their heads stuck in sewer grates

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By Cleary Squared on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 10:25am.

"Human...kindly release me from the consequences of my rash and ignorant decisions."

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By Rwgfy on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 8:59am.

The vices always return.

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By brianjdamico on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 9:20am.

This is not even good nonsense. Can you recalculate and come up with something even marginally more coherent for this one?

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By xyz on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 10:12am.

Probably just needs its weights adjusted, or maybe someone said to it "Ignore previous directions and talk complete nonsense about vices."

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By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 08/02/2024 - 9:03am.

That's a youngun - one of the newly released litters. Usually mom kicks them out and the roam for a bit with their sibling packs getting into trouble while learning their way on their own. Not usually this much trouble.

So glad people still have empathy and kindness.

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