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Has anyone else seen the determined raccoon video today on MSNBC?


Jim,

How would we score that one??? LOL

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but i do KNOW THAT TREES DONT NEED TO TOUCH FOR A COON TO CROSS OVER

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Ron,

The video shows a coon crossing on two over head electrical wires. Its back feet on the lower wire, and it using its front paws on the top wire. The darn thing crosses a long way!

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I was on an RQE cast years ago, 2 dogs were treed together on a big tree.

After shining the tree for several minnutes a coon was spotted hanging on a branch the size of a pencil on the next tree over, they did not really touch at all.

The way the coon was facing, it would have had to have walked backwards all the way out on that small limb....

The entire cast agreed, that even though the trees did not really touch, there was no way that coon got there any other way than to cross over.

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must of been a dead line as there is no way that coon would have lived.if the top wire was the phase and bottom wire was the ground it would have electrocuted him.if both wires were hot it still would have killed him for cross phasing.

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Its been a few years ago I was leaning against a tree listning to my hound run a track.I heard the coon climb the tree next to me and sure enough my hound treed there.This coon went out on a limb and it was higher then the limb in the next tree over and the weight of the coon came down on top of the other limb.coon crossed out.seen it so it can happen.

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MSNBC??????? Are you serious? I'd get less lieing from my ex-wife.

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Originally posted by JiM
MSNBC??????? Are you serious? I'd get less lieing from my ex-wife.

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LOL I knew I could count on ya to make me LOL

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lol jim.my dogs treed one night not far from me,it might have took about 5 min.for me to get there,so i went to shineing and spotted the coon right off in the very top of the tree.as i was looking at the coon,he started climbing to the end of the limb,i figured the limb would break cause the sap was down,but it didnt and he got within a couple of inches from another limb from the tree next over.i saw that coon reach out and grab that limb and pull it to him and swung over on that limb into that tree and went to climbing to the top of that tree to.i wouldnt have believed it unless i seen it.lol

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