At 07:20ish this morning, my wife and I are lying in bed, when all of a sudden we heard a loud pop. We look at each other and realize it was a gun shot, which in our area of town, where there's no deep woods for miles, is unheard of. We both drift back to sleep wondering of all of our neighbors which ones would be the first to shoot each other. At 08:00AM, the phone rings, its our neighbor explaining that there is a rabid fox in his back yard. He goes onto explain that while in his back yard he was almost attacked by this creature. After observing him from safer ground, he watched as he repeatedly ran in circles banging his head on the shed (Cookoo for Cocoa Puffs). He then proceeded to call the cops. When the police officer arrived he quickly pulled out his side arm, shot him in the chest, and said, "problem solved, get a shovel and bury him" he then got into his cruiser and left. First Problem the fox wasnt dead!!!! Second Problem the ground is frozing and theres six inches of snow on the ground!!!!!!! Now this is where the phone call to me comes in. I have a frantic neighbor on the phone (my head still throbbing from the night before)saying , he's sooooo sorry to bother us but he's got a half dead fox doing the Curly Shuffle in his backyard. I quickly get up get my clothes on and try to mildly explain to my children why I'm going to the neighbors with a shovel and garbage bag in my hand.:smash: Well trying to make a long story short, theres a garbage bag in my front yard awaiting the animal control officer, and my kids have strict orders to STAY AWAY FROM THE BAG!!!

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ya just never know....I was at my mother's years back standing in the door way looking out at the cars in the driveway, when I see something crawl under one car..I went out an stuck my face under the car to see what it was...there was a coon half dead with a foot of slime hanging from it's mouth..walk in the house, load the gun an pop....this poor thing died quick..shovel an bag in hand..it got put in a hole in the back yard....never seen anything so sick before.

The cop was an idiot. If he even suspected the fox was rabid, he should have called animal control or the Dept of Health and have it tested. I wonder if he was bright enough to know not to shoot it in the head, or just got lucky.

I hope you shoveled the fox into the bag and didn't handle it with your hands. Never touch any part of a suspected rabid animal. If there's saliva on its fur and you have any kind of open cut on your hands---as fishermen often do this time of the year---you could get infected.

Yeah I don't know if Dirty Harry got lucky or what.I tell ya one thing,he should of called the animal control and let them handle it.Man it was a mess I didnt want to take my shovle & smash it's skull in:smash:
I had my winter gloves on & when i put it in the bag I kinda treated it like a giant turd,I turned the bag inside out & grabed/picked it up.

My neighbor endded up taking it to the Mansfield animal shelter they were going to freeze it & hold it for the animal control officer.

It worked out well my neighbor came over a couple of hours later w/ a 12 pack of Corona Extra :happy: :happy: :happy: Nice!



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Sounds to me like Durty Harry is not that brite.

If you dig a hole it better be deep enough so other critters don't dig it up and eat it.

I not sure how rabies spreads, but I would be willing to bet other anmals could get it from eating another infected animal.

You can get rabies from contact alone. No broken skin, no nothing
If a cave is populated by rabid bats, you can become infected by breathing the air. As much as I'd like to collecr road kill tails of Raccoons, foxes, deer, and yuh, even coyotes, that little fact keeps me away. That's why the towns hire an animal control officer. That cop is a moron.

Why not burn the carcass?:confused:

Don't police officers have to account for every time they fire their sidearm? Kind of worrysome when police don't follow procedure...even though it's stupid, you wonder what other rules he doesn't follow...

-spence

We had a rabbid racoon at the house once and the cop couldn't hit it. He fired four times at point blank before he got it. :smash:

Spence , I'd bet that that guy keeps his bullett in his shirt pocket. Just couldn't wait to shoot something , anything. You find some real cowboys on local forces, frankly they scare me. They take a situation and make it all about them. Where they should have tried to solve the problem at hand. It's just too simple for them.

Originally posted by Backbeach Jake
Spence , I'd bet that that guy keeps his bullett in his shirt pocket. Just couldn't wait to shoot something , anything. You find some real cowboys on local forces, frankly they scare me. They take a situation and make it all about them. Where they should have tried to solve the problem at hand. It's just too simple for them.
Yeah it's quite sad. My wife called the cop's to tell Dirty Harry to come & pick up what he didn't finish.(gotta love a girl with spunk!) It must have been him who answered the phone cause he knew what she was referring to & told her that IT WAS DEAD!
Well, she told him that I was going over w/ a shovel & finish his dirty work.:smash: She told him that what he did over to my neighbors house was far from normal protocol on a matter such as this!

I don't want to offend anybody, but there here "to serve & protect" Why didn't he do the right thing and call Animal control & let him deal? No, he had to come out himself & draw his side arm and play Tex from Sioux City, this is my friggin tax dollar @ work here and it's a pretty lam.


Like I first stated I. Don't want to offend anybody but what the Freak!
My neighbor was beside him self when this whole thing happened, he waited till 08:00 to call me while the thing is spinning & squirming around in his back yard.
Man the whole episode just sucked!

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When you shoot something, it dos not always die right away. Sometimes things will live for several hours, even with a good shot to the vitals. IMO the cop should have called Animal control, or Environmental Police and waited for them even after he shot it. Maybe he never dealt with this kind of situation before.

Im not so worried with im following policy about shooting it. What i am worried about is leaving a half dead animal there. He should have killed the thing. I cant even stand a mouse scratching when he is in a trap, the human e thinkg would have been to KILL it not to mame it. After it was killed it shoud have been brought to animal control to check for rabies. PETA woud have a field day if they got a hold of this story.

[i]the human e thinkg would have been to KILL it not to mame it. [/B] all I could think of after reading this reply was Jim Carey in Me, Myself and Irene with the cow in the road..:D

just goes to show you : not everyone is capable of being a cop and making the right decision for the general public .

good thing you cat wasnt stuck in a tree or you dog hit by a car .

get a hold of the chief and complain . his next shot might be at a little child with epilepsy

Mansfields finest!

Man when i got quoted i noticed that i really need to slow down and check my spelling.