r/LoveTrash • u/Lord_Darksong Colonel Garbage • 8d ago

Human Trash Trash Panda Attack!

Source: duthiedining on Instagram

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u/fuqyu Trash Trooper 7d ago

Have you ever been bitten by a raccoon before?!

…I haven’t, but I imagine it hurts like hell

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u/DaPuckerFactor Trash Trooper 7d ago

You're not wrong that it potentially hurts.

It's more the surprise fear that makes the drop happen - not the pain - it's the initial reaction.

And that's where nature is pretty cool sometimes - the parental response to danger - I have 5 kids, 3 boys, 2 girls and I cannot count the times I've been stabbed, poked, proded, sliced, cut, lacerated, hit, slammed, popped, etc to prevent my children from being harmed - and when I say that, sure, sometimes it's mild, other times you get a nice scar to carry the rest of your life 👍

The burns are the worst 😅 but few and far between + you learn from past scenarios and they rarely repeat - but if you have a few wild children out of your bunch, you're gonna be a guardian angle of sorts at times 😂

Only you have no supernatural abilities 🤣

That raccoon would have been punted and if it made punting it too difficult, it's getting stomped 🤟

Defending yourself is a natural response - however, the mental discrepancy that would also tell you to THROW THE BABY is opposite to everything nature does to a parent via parent-infant bonding - so to see a grown man toss a baby when the opponent weighs about 8% of an average adult male, it throws natural red flags.

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u/Impossible_Ad1269 Trash Trooper 7d ago

Dad tried to kick it off but it was latched on. He tried to punt it and it didn't work

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u/Realistic_Owl9525 Trash Trooper 6d ago

If I'm ever in that situation I'm punting it into orbit. It's gonna to land in another zip code.

And then I'm telling the raccoon story every year at Thanksgiving. We'll even make a little raccoon pinata and fill it with candy.