The Touching Tale of #DeadRaccoonTO

“People In Toronto Created A Memorial To A Dead Raccoon After The City Forgot To Pick It Up” — via BuzzFeed

Photo by @KrisReports on Twitter

“Just after 9 a.m. Thursday morning (9 July 2015) a good citizen of Toronto saw a dead raccoon on the sidewalk. He alerted the city’s contact centre to come get the animal. The city responded 12 minutes later. Animal Services was notified, they said. But around noon the raccoon was still there.

“And someone put a note next to it.

“Six hours after being reported to the city, the raccoon was still on the sidewalk. People had started to create something of a memorial to it.”

Read the version at BuzzFeed. Much better written than the rundown published by CBC, imho.

I would like to say that as tongue-in-cheek as the whole ordeal may perhaps be seen as, there is an element of emotion and a particular aesthetic which grips me upon reading a link to this story as it floats by my Facebook newsfeed. This is no mere viral human-interest story; there is something much more to it, or so I had thought at the time when I first encountered it.

(To be continued…) (I still consider this piece of draft-quality, not yet to be published.)

Update: Aw heck. Publishing.