re: #196 jeffreyw

Heh, years ago I spent a couple of summers working at a Boy Scout Camp in NorthWestern Pa. One summer the cooks adopted a couple of orphaned raccoon cubs. At the time it was legal to keep raccoons as pets in Pa.

For the “end of the summer” group photo, two of the cooks decided to have the raccoons on their shoulders. They figured that the raccoons would really look good on their cook white uniforms.

This was not a wise move.

With 70 camp employees, most of them late-teenage boys running around prior to the photo, the raccoons quickly got uncomfortable. And immediately went to the highest place they could find and got a firm grip there.

This highest spot happened to be the top of the afore-mentioned cooks’ heads. And, of course, the raccoons were not exactly potty trained.

Eventually the raccoons were coaxed down without too much damage to the cooks. The formerly white uniforms were changed and the pictures were taken.