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--Boundary_(ID_mJcVCUxpgOzLbhq5UvetSw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Some of you may have seen this in the Chronicle Herald, and it =20 reappeared today as below. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville Globe and Mail, Life section, Social Studies, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009 Social Studies ...RACCOONS AT THE DOOR ... A daily miscellany of information by Michael Kesterton Article =46rom Wednesday's Globe and Mail Wednesday, Oct. 07, 2009 12:00AM EDT Raccoons at the door A 74-year-old was =93filleted=94 by raccoons when she tried to shoo them = =20 away from her central Florida home. The woman was hospitalized for =20 more than two days. Gretchen Whitted, of Lakeland, had seen a family =20 of raccoons near her back patio, Associated Press reports. =93She told =20= rescue personnel she tried to wave the animals away; a few minutes =20 later, she spotted them at her front door and tried to run them off =20 again. Then they attacked. Whitted fell, and the five animals bit and =20= clawed at her, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. =91They enveloped =20= her. =85 We're not talking about a lot of little bites here,' Judd =20 added. =91She was filleted.'=94 He said that: =93I've been a hunter all = my =20 life and I've never heard of raccoons attacking in a mob like this.=94 ------------------------ --Boundary_(ID_mJcVCUxpgOzLbhq5UvetSw) Content-type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Some of you may have seen = this in the Chronicle Herald, and it reappeared today as = below.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville</div><div><br></div>Globe and Mail, Life section, Social = Studies, Wed., Oct. 7, 2009<div><br></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = line-height: 19px; "><font face=3D"Georgia" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 13.0px Georgia">Social Studies</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0.0px = 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; line-height: 22.0px"><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Georgia" size=3D"6"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 22px; line-height: normal;">...RACCOONS AT THE DOOR = ...</span></font></p><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; "><font = face=3D"Georgia" size=3D"4" color=3D"#444444" style=3D"font: 15.0px = Georgia; color: #444444">A daily miscellany of information by Michael = Kesterton</font></div><ul> <li style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; = line-height: 15.0px"><font face=3D"Georgia" size=3D"4" color=3D"#da251a" = style=3D"font: 15.0px Georgia; color: #da251a"><a = href=3D"http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/the-acid-a= rctic-the-weekend-fights-avoid-thin-gluttons/article1314416/#article">Arti= cle</a></font></li></ul><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font = face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 11.0px Verdana">=46rom = Wednesday's Globe and Mail</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 16px; "><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2" color=3D"#444444" style=3D"font:= 10.0px Verdana; color: #444444">Wednesday, Oct. 07, 2009 12:00AM = EDT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font = class=3D"Apple-style-span" color=3D"#444444" face=3D"Verdana" = size=3D"2"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 10px; = line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0.0px = 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; = font-weight: bold; ">Raccoons at the door</span></p><p style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face=3D"Verdana" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Verdana">A 74-year-old was =93filleted=94= by raccoons when she tried to shoo them away from her central Florida = home. The woman was hospitalized for more than two days. Gretchen = Whitted, of Lakeland, had seen a family of raccoons near her back patio, = Associated Press reports. =93She told rescue personnel she tried to wave = the animals away; a few minutes later, she spotted them at her front = door and tried to run them off again. Then they attacked. Whitted fell, = and the five animals bit and clawed at her, Polk County Sheriff Grady = Judd said. =91They enveloped her. =85 We're not talking about a lot of = little bites here,' Judd added. =91She was filleted.'=94 He said that: = =93I've been a hunter all my life and I've never heard of raccoons = attacking in a mob like this.=94</font></p><p style=3D"margin: 0.0px = 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Verdana"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"line-height: = normal;">------------------------</span></font></p><p style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"line-height: normal;"><font = class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Verdana"><b><br></b></font></span></p></div></body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_mJcVCUxpgOzLbhq5UvetSw)--
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