The Story of Glemie Dean Beasley, Detroit's Urban Raccoon Hunter

[mustangj17]

I will not be going to this man's house for a barbeque any time soon.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090402/METRO08/904020395/To+urban+hunter++next+meal+is+scampering+by

 

[Pancamo]

"Coon or rabbit. God put them there to eat. When men get hold of animals he blows them up and then he blows up. Fill 'em so full of chemicals and steroids it ruins the people. It makes them sick. Like the pigs on the farm. They's 3 months old and weighing 400 pounds. They's all blowed up. And the chil'ren who eat it, they's all blowed up. Don't make no sense."


Great quote.

 

[JR]

Great but depressing story.


Detroit was once home to nearly 2 million people but has shrunk to a population of perhaps less than 900,000. It is estimated that a city the size of San Francisco could fit neatly within its empty lots. As nature abhors a vacuum, wildlife has moved in.

A beaver was spotted recently in the Detroit River. Wild fox skulk the 15th hole at the Palmer Park golf course. There is bald eagle, hawk and falcon that roam the city skies. Wild Turkeys roam the grasses. A coyote was snared two years ago roaming the Federal Court House downtown. And Beasley keeps a gaze of skinned coon in the freezer.

 

[Football_Bat]

I've had barbecued raccoon before. Pretty tasty.

 

[mustangj17]

Great but depressing story.


Detroit was once home to nearly 2 million people but has shrunk to a population of perhaps less than 900,000. It is estimated that a city the size of San Francisco could fit neatly within its empty lots. As nature abhors a vacuum, wildlife has moved in.

A beaver was spotted recently in the Detroit River. Wild fox skulk the 15th hole at the Palmer Park golf course. There is bald eagle, hawk and falcon that roam the city skies. Wild Turkeys roam the grasses. A coyote was snared two years ago roaming the Federal Court House downtown. And Beasley keeps a gaze of skinned coon in the freezer.

The Turkeys were probably someone's pets. You'd be surprised what people keep.

 

[crusoes]

They could be wild ones, too. I don't think I'd seen a wild turkey in Michigan until a couple years ago. Now they are everywhere and I see them all the time. If there's food, they'll find a way. There's a lot of pheasant inside Detroit, too, I hear. All those lots with tall grass are perfect cover, and there aren't nearly as many predators as in the wild.

What Detroit should do (which means it would never do this) is to trim its borders back and let that land revert to the original townships, or be part of smaller cities that might be able to provide some services.

But it won't. And the reality comedy/tragedy show that is the Detroit City Council will keep running.

 

[Armchair_QB]

They could be wild ones, too. I don't think I'd seen a wild turkey in Michigan until a couple years ago. Now they are everywhere and I see them all the time. If there's food, they'll find a way. There's a lot of pheasant inside Detroit, too, I hear. All those lots with tall grass are perfect cover, and there aren't nearly as many predators as in the wild.

What Detroit should do (which means it would never do this) is to trim its borders back and let that land revert to the original townships, or be part of smaller cities that might be able to provide some services.

But it won't. And the reality comedy/tragedy show that is the Detroit City Council will keep running.

And the voters of Detroit have nobody to blame but themselves.

 

[mustangj17]

They could be wild ones, too. I don't think I'd seen a wild turkey in Michigan until a couple years ago. Now they are everywhere and I see them all the time. If there's food, they'll find a way. There's a lot of pheasant inside Detroit, too, I hear. All those lots with tall grass are perfect cover, and there aren't nearly as many predators as in the wild.

What Detroit should do (which means it would never do this) is to trim its borders back and let that land revert to the original townships, or be part of smaller cities that might be able to provide some services.

But it won't. And the reality comedy/tragedy show that is the Detroit City Council will keep running.

I don't know the Dearborn's and Grosse Pointe's want that land.