4 comments

  • ncr100 1 hour ago
    According to a local Instagram posting he has difficulty traversing fence rails.

    When he was young, a year ago, a neighbor saw his family helping him as he fumbled.

    And so this neighbor says they cut open a hole in their fence at ground level for him.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/Da5pCzqjhx1/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da9V4-FOjc_/

    So some are appearing to enable this one critter.

    Also locally - Seattle - local agencies are celebrating, and sometimes incorporating him into their business, including city sanitation departments spicing up pro social sanitation messages about using garbage cans, claiming Jimothy would want it that way. Some of these messages make less obvious sense than others, IMO.

    • Terr_ 48 minutes ago
      > claiming Jimothy would want it that way.

      You might enjoy this satire [0], lengthily tiled: "I’m Jimothy, the Short-Spined Raccoon Who Has Taken the Internet by Storm, and the Collective Weight of Your Adoration Is Breaking My Already-Compromised Back"

      [0] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-jimothy-the-short-spi...

    • Larrikin 1 hour ago
      Are you complaining about people helping a raccoon? The Internet hype is a bit much but why are you framing it like this raccoon should have died years ago.
      • laweijfmvo 11 minutes ago
        it’ll probably end up badly, not because someone fed a raccoon, but because someone halfway across the planet will develop an unreasonable relationship with this wild animal.
      • hbarka 34 minutes ago
        God forbid we put out a pan of dry kibbles for a stray cat or a water pan outside for hiking dogs during hot days. That would be “enabling”.
        • BigTTYGothGF 7 minutes ago
          They can take my bird feeders from my cold dead hands.
        • Salgat 28 minutes ago
          When I lived in Chicago I'd see rats and cats eating cat food left out alongside each other. I'm not against helping wild animals as long as it doesn't come with a rat infestation issue.
          • hbarka 18 minutes ago
            I know that one. It’s the good ol’ tolerance formula:

            Tolerance(A) = { 100% if A ≠ B; 0% if A → B }

            Sprinkle on anything to suit your taste.

  • throw1234567891 1 hour ago
    > You’d have to be living under a dumpster not to have heard of Jimothy, Seattle’s favorite raccoon and the internet’s newest folk hero.

    Or anywhere outside of Seattle, I suppose.

    • c22 1 hour ago
      I met someone from Seattle just yesterday who had not heard of it. I think anyone who doesn't live on the internet can be forgiven for not following this story.
    • InsideOutSanta 26 minutes ago
      I'm in Europe and I've heard of him.
      • shermantanktop 19 minutes ago
        I’m in Seattle, live nearby, and have a raccoon family living my yard. I’m boggled the world knows about him, but they do.
    • dieselgate 26 minutes ago
      it’s been in front page of nytimes and Reddit and now HN
      • throw1234567891 9 minutes ago
        I’m so happy. This link made me leave my safe space under the dumpster.
  • kiaansaraiya 1 hour ago
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    • bakedbeanz 19 minutes ago
      Weird, joyless take. What do you get out of looking down on people appreciating a cute animal?