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(renamed from coon-a-pult, due to intense lobbying) A coonamoon propels a raccoon into the air when it starts to get into your trash cans. This device, disguised as a trash can lid, is activated by a pressure switch which detects the full weight of a raccoon (12-35 lbs). Upon activation, side panels
are deployed to scoop the raccoon onto the center of the lid (known in the user's manual as the "launch pad"). There are adjustments for vertical, horizontal, and an optional spin. It is suggested that you use an unruly child or a barking terrier to adjust the device before risking harm to actual raccoons. Fits popular make garbage cans. See optional garbage cam (under Home: Security) -Entry #1
Mouse Catapult
http://www.slycraft.com/mouse.htm
Perhaps a larger version of this... [Cedar Park, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
The Yankee Flipper
http://www.yankeefl...l/video/Premiere.rm
A motorized squirrel-flingin' bird feeder. If you have Real Player and the download time, it's worth your while. [Amos Kito, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Bleah
http://www.national...erbyshire091702.asp
so freaking stupid! [snarfyguy, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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Bwahahahaha! He he he! Oooo I likes it! |
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Can it have a video camera on it too so you don't miss the fun? |
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Didn't we just have mouse-a-pult? |
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Nah, coons are cute. (Thank goodness Susen's not around!) |
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i can see myself abusing this with my younger brother...heheh. wait...no...must be kind and generous... |
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Sorry, I like them. They’re actually very friendly. I hand feed them cat food on cool summer nights sitting out on the deck as I slingshot apple pieces up to the bats. *Note that my Mother who among other things is on the rabies advisory board for the state – doesn’t particularly care for these activities. |
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I recommend securing the cans as an alternative deterrent. |
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As a city boy, I must say I almost jumped out of my skin when I saw five racoons eating a pair of sneakers in Big Sur last year. We were almost like bumpkins in reverse -
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"Gee, Maw, lookit the size o' them rats."
"I ain't never seed 'em that big, Paw - not even in the subway!"
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I sort of wanted to be friendly - they're awful cute - but I was too scared. |
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The best way that I've found to deal with raccoons getting into the garbage is to simply place any rubbish which is edible into the bush or a corner of your property. If you are always putting the stuff that they are after in the same place, they know where their meal awaits them and they leave your garbage cans alone. Some people would say that this just encourages them to continue coming back, but in my experience they don't seem to need any help in that department. Co-existence is the key.
B.T.W. croissant for the visual. |
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I love it! Firing a block of cheese out of the rubbish bin and across the street. |
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(NB Coon is a popular brand of cheese, here in Australia) |
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(NB: "Coon" is also an extremely disparaging and contemptuously offensive slang epithet used to refer to a black person. I recommend that <flerber's> marketing wizards come up with a less controversial product name.) |
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I knew that, and made the observation for that very reason. It may mean that in your country. Here it's a brand of cheese, which is not quite such an issue. |
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Then again, you guys use the word "fanny" with reckless abandon. Here it means something else entirely. |
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Here, XXXX is a popular brand of beer. You seem to think it's a condom. |
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Actually, [UB], I wasn't advising you at all, but recommending that <flerper> get his/her marketing wizards on the prowl for a more universally satisfying name.(I have attempted to emend the previous annotation to reflect that intention, hopefully with more success than the earlier version.) |
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As regards XXXX Beer, I didn't know that it was being frequently confused for condoms. Unfortunately most of the X-rated knowledge that I have about beer begins and ends with Dos Equis (XX) from Mexico. Does that mean I've been drinking half a condom? ...That concept certainly puts me off my next meal. |
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I wouldn't characterize the offense taken in the States by "coon-a-pult" as "whiny". I would characterize it as "most people would think you deserved the beating you took" offense. |
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Oh for pity's sake! We had coons before the racists had them. I have simply proposed launching raccoons into the brisk early spring night sky (well, tell that to the raccoons!). I am hard at work on my next invention called the butt stick remover for those who are offended (please go to health: stress relief). |
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Got this from an online etymology dictionary: |
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raccoon - 1608, arocoun, from Algonquian (Powhatan) arahkun, from arahkunem "he scratches with the hands." Early forms included Capt. John Smith's raugroughcum |
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coon - short for raccoon, 1742, Amer.Eng. It was the nickname of Whig Party members in U.S. c.1848-60, as the raccoon was the party's symbol. The insulting meaning "black person" (1837) is said to be from Port. barracoos "building constructed to hold slaves for sale." Coon's age is 1843, Amer.Eng., probably an alteration of British a crow's age. |
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So yes, the word coon is nearly a hundred years older than its derogatory connotation, but both meanings have existed longer than the living memory of any living person. |
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(See link for *really* appalling oversensitive pc shenanigans: "the niggardly controversy." People were actually losing their jobs over the use of the word niggardly because other people don't know it and it sounds like the "N" word.) |
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Oh, I remember that nasty affair. Yes, appalling. |
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I didn't intend to link to them, per se. The other on point links were from even worse sources. |
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I once had to have a talk with a co-worker at the YMCA who referred to a variety of take-out as "Gook Food". His defense was that he didn't know it was offensive. I asked him if he would have said this to the takeout person's face, and he admitted that he wouldn't. |
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I ask you, flerper, would you try to tell me about your new invention called the "Coonamoon" if you met me in your apartment building and saw the color of my face? |
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Way up there ---^, [Kameleon] said "I'm offended by you naming your product "fill in blank"."
Was that *really* intended as an anti-anti-white Afrikaans joke? ([Kameleon] being Dutch.) If so, it's *so* funny. |
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I get the feeling [kam] is a poker player. |
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Interesting word, "gook". A word that was originally used by US troops in the 1890s, during the US governments efforts to subdue the Filippino people, after acquiring the country. It's possible that it was then used as a corruption of 'Hankook', which I believe means "Korean" in Korean. Odd that it should become a catchall racist epithet that encompasses all Asian peoples. |
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Maybe it's a measure of the insularity of parts of US society? The word is barely heard in Australia, apart from occasional usage in US movies, and some slang stemming from that. |
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Probably the same small subset of rednecks, promulgating the same old stereotypical nonsense. |
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Strangely enough, a member of an ethnic minority may use, with impunity, the very terms they claim are racial vilification if they are used by persons not of that minority. |
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Propel raccoon invaders away from the trash. period. I appreciate all of the conversation, but when you have a case of the coons then you will want this thing. |
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Have you tried [2 fries]'s advice? I'm no expert, but it sounds pretty sensible. |
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Thanks for removing the offensive "apult" suffix from the title. |
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These are MILITANT raccoons. They want me to react. They will get as close to my bedroom window as possible and start talking loudly and using profanity. And the mess they leave! What happened to "look at the cute little raccoon washing his food and his little hands in the babbling brook?" When I go out to confont them, they just run right up to me and get all on my face and say "you talkin' to me?" And when I DO throw them some scraps just to show them that I can be a nice human, it's like "well OK, we'll eat this but we reserve the right to bang around in your garbage so you know we are a force to be reckoned with here in the woods. After all, it's not your woods (even though I own it)" No. I'm through coexisting. It's time to launch the first raccoon. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. And thank you very much for your croissant. |
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Maybe this could be combined with a hand-cranked gatling gun to add a sport element to the process. As the raccoon sails through the air, you engage it with the gatling to ensure that it has learned its lesson. |
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