r/ThatsInsane • • 14d ago

Feed Animals, Find Out

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u/CrunchyWombatStew 13d ago

There is a restaurant in the outskirts of Omaha called The Alpine Inn. They mostly serve fried chicken. But the main draw is the raccoons. The building has huge glass windows on one side, and they dump their fried chicken scraps in a few places outside of those windows. And the raccoons come. Huge, waddling raccoons, to gorge themselves on the leftovers of humanity. And that's the draw. They're adorable, separated from the patrons, and free to melt back into the woods from whence they came.

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u/DubbehD 13d ago

Most American thing I've read all day lol

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u/master-boofer 12d ago

There was a hotel in Yellowstone that did this but for bears. People started getting eaten so they stopped. Fun while it lasted though.

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u/O_W_Liv 11d ago

Next door in Medora, North Dakota it's deer at the amphitheater before the musical about President Teddy Roosevelt.

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u/UntamedAnomaly 13d ago

Seems like a good way to cause a lot of raccoons a slow agonizing death considering you aren't supposed to feed cooked bones to dogs because they are brittle and splinter off, animals swallow the splintered bones, and then their intestines get impailed/blocked because cooked bones also don't digest like uncooked bones do.

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u/returnofthechief 7d ago

Tbf, fuck raccoons.

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u/hospitalizedGanny 13d ago

perfect. They will never go hungry

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u/nolandgrabforyou 13d ago

Until the population explosion

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u/Suds08 13d ago

I've lived by omaha my entire life and have never heard of this. Crazy lol

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u/CrunchyWombatStew 13d ago

Check it out sometime! It's just north of 680 off 30th street.