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Share your summer vacation tales
| Author | Subject: Share your summer vacation tales |
| Shivkumar |
Posted At 13:29:50 08/10/2004
Here's my favorite one: A family driving down the road one day who spotted a cute little raccoon that appeared to be injured. They picked it up and showed it off to the relatives they were visiting at their destination. Their hosts' children tried to feed the raccoon marshmallows, but the raccoon wasn't interested and spat them out. However, the baby in the family felt very differently about those marshmallows, toddled over to the rejected specimens, and quickly scarfed them down. Nobody got too upset until the dad tried to splint the raccoon's injured limb, got nipped for his efforts, and only then considered the possibility of rabies. Fortunately, they got the ungrateful critter tested -- and had 11 family members treated for rabies exposure.
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| Roman |
Re: Share your summer vacation tales (Currently 0 replies)
Posted At 15:30:25 08/11/2004
Homeowners were advised to capture bats in their neighborhood and kill them without destroying their brain (to prevent catching rabies), then use a tool to put them into an empty coffee can for delivery to the county health department, which would then ship them to the state lab for testing.
One homeowner found a bat, promptly complied, using a tennis racquet to kill the bat and flip it into the can, which he then covered and delivered to the county office, where staff filled out the paperwork and then shipped the canned specimen to the state.
All was well and good, until the state staff removed the lid and the bat flew out, having been stunned but not killed by the tennis racquet. It was the state workers' turn to be stunned, and they were neither amused nor appreciative of the gift.
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