"xray" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:44:46 GMT, "Dave Lyon"
wrote:

15 minutes later, he was telling me about the raccoon that he found in
his
mother's attic. She lived in a very populated area. He took out his hand
gun
and shot at it 5 times!

Reminds me of a story I read once about a lady who found a rattlesnake
in her kitchen. She killed it with a shotgun. As I recall, it took four
or five shots.



That's about right for a snake, especially when it could have been steered
out with a broom. Nothing like blowing your floor all to hell to dispatch
a snake, eh?

Harold