Wednesday, May 13, 2020

We're the Only Ones Grounding Enough



There are so many frontline heroics of late, my hands are starting to hurt.

[Via Jess]

Posted by David Codrea at 5/13/2020 10:02:00 AM

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

1) Why didn't the cop just get out of the way when the groundhog got to the other side of the road and let it proceed?
2) What was there that justified tying up traffic in the 1st place?

5/13/2020 12:00 PM
Henry said...

You know, I'm going to give the cop the benefit of the doubt on this one. A wild non-predatory animal following (at one point, even charging) a human being instead of fleeing from him is a warning sign of rabies. That groundhog was not behaving properly. If the report had mentioned suspected rabies instead of the stock "sick or injured," perhaps all these Bambiists would have understood the problem.

5/13/2020 7:30 PM
GaryM said...

Henry beat me too it. I live in a rural area and that groundhog was not acting normal.

I'd have probably done the same in that situation.

5/14/2020 9:57 AM
David Codrea said...

Not me-- The animal was not the initial aggressor. I see it wanting to cross the street and it didn't just charge from the start and keep going, which something crazy would do-- it kept trying and this big animal kept approaching it and it reacted defensively. How do we know it wasn't a mother trying to get to her den and pups? It is Spring, after all. I wonder what would have happened if everybody just held up a minute and let it cross the road like we do all the time for geese where I live. But we'll probably never know -- with all the outrage this has generated, you'd think if it had confirmed rabies there would have been a statement issued by now.

"Sentence first, verdict afterward."

5/14/2020 11:18 AM
Henry said...

Note that the comments inside the video reveal that traffic was already stopped before the cop got there, because the critter was hanging out in the middle of the road, again, not an indication of normal behavior. If this was a mom trying to get home, she could easily have run around the cop at a distance. I've dealt with a lot of groundhogs, and they're wily, fast, and evasive little b*ds.

5/14/2020 8:02 PM
David Codrea said...

I repeat: with all the outrage this has generated, you'd think if it had confirmed rabies there would have been a statement issued by now.

Until then, no one is talking knowledge here.

5/15/2020 1:36 AM
Henry said...

There will be no rabies test. Several articles have already reported that Animal Welfare took care of the remains, and there were no tests done since the animal never came in contact with anybody.

5/15/2020 6:42 AM

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