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Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means(popsci.com)
55 points by speckx 5 days ago | 15 comments
ncr100 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

According to a local Instagram posting he has difficulty traversing fence rails.

When he was young, a year ago, a neighbor saw his family helping him as he fumbled.

And so this neighbor says they cut open a hole in their fence at ground level for him.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Da5pCzqjhx1/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da9V4-FOjc_/

So some are appearing to enable this one critter.

Also locally - Seattle - local agencies are celebrating, and sometimes incorporating him into their business, including city sanitation departments spicing up pro social sanitation messages about using garbage cans, claiming Jimothy would want it that way. Some of these messages make less obvious sense than others, IMO.

Terr_ an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> claiming Jimothy would want it that way.

You might enjoy this satire [0], lengthily tiled: "I’m Jimothy, the Short-Spined Raccoon Who Has Taken the Internet by Storm, and the Collective Weight of Your Adoration Is Breaking My Already-Compromised Back"

[0] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-jimothy-the-short-spi...

Larrikin an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you complaining about people helping a raccoon? The Internet hype is a bit much but why are you framing it like this raccoon should have died years ago.

laweijfmvo 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

it’ll probably end up badly, not because someone fed a raccoon, but because someone halfway across the planet will develop an unreasonable relationship with this wild animal.

hbarka 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

God forbid we put out a pan of dry kibbles for a stray cat or a water pan outside for hiking dogs during hot days. That would be “enabling”.

BigTTYGothGF 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

They can take my bird feeders from my cold dead hands.

Salgat 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

When I lived in Chicago I'd see rats and cats eating cat food left out alongside each other. I'm not against helping wild animals as long as it doesn't come with a rat infestation issue.

hbarka 21 minutes ago | parent [-]

I know that one. It’s the good ol’ tolerance formula:

Tolerance(A) = { 100% if A ≠ B; 0% if A → B }

Sprinkle on anything to suit your taste.

throw1234567891 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> You’d have to be living under a dumpster not to have heard of Jimothy, Seattle’s favorite raccoon and the internet’s newest folk hero.

Or anywhere outside of Seattle, I suppose.

c22 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I met someone from Seattle just yesterday who had not heard of it. I think anyone who doesn't live on the internet can be forgiven for not following this story.

throw1234567891 an hour ago | parent [-]

Obviously living under the dumpster!

InsideOutSanta 29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm in Europe and I've heard of him.

shermantanktop 22 minutes ago | parent [-]

I’m in Seattle, live nearby, and have a raccoon family living my yard. I’m boggled the world knows about him, but they do.

dieselgate 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

it’s been in front page of nytimes and Reddit and now HN

throw1234567891 12 minutes ago | parent [-]

I’m so happy. This link made me leave my safe space under the dumpster.