It’s repugnant and wrong no doubt to bludgeon raccoons in your backyard. As a local man has learned, society rightly considers this type of behavior cruel. Then however the story, as reported today by CP24, observes that police were “trying to figure out the motive.” Honestly, unless this man was deranged, as opposed to merely misguided, the motive seems to be quite obvious. There will not be a homeowner in the city who does not concede that raccoons are a dirty, costly nuisance. And how could it be otherwise? Raccoons are essentially a protected species which over-populate Toronto. They are treated like creatures endangered by extinction. It’s all well and good to invoke the criminal law when something like this occurs. But it is irresponsible to ignore the foolish public policy that perpetuates this nuisance and occasionally leads people to the breaking point when it comes to raccoons.
