At 09:24 PM 4/25/02 -0500, Shane Steinkamp wrote: If all we >had to contend with were rabid raccoons, we'd just whack >them on the head with a hiking pole and keep going. LOL...being the only lister that i know off who has had to undergo rabies shots (not from a raccoon, by the way) and having seen coons in action on occasion, I'll take a sane bear over a crazy coon any day <g>.