It's actually not a problem, and we're not sure her lot was effected, but it did cause a few moments of blind panic while she looked into it, and again while she was explaining it to me.
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I was working security at this building once. It was one of those half strip mall half office building type deals with a parking deck. It was also located next to one of the three rivers that join up to become the Rouge River in Detroit and had some woodlands around it. And of course Racoons live in it.
Every once in a while racoons would be seen in the parking deck and one time a mother had her babies in a wall of the building.
Anyway, one day a racoon gets in the stairwell of the building. So it's up to ME to get it out. I'm not scared. I'm a human. I'm tall and powerful compared to this poor little thing. But let me tell you it took a while to get it out of the stairwell.
First I had to close all the doors leading into the building and open the door leading to the outside. I couldn't shoo the thing out the first time and had to back it up all 5 flights of stairs. Once at the top we did this little dance, changing directions so I could now shoo it back down 5 flights to the outside door. Needless to say I was very popular with all the ladies for a while.
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McLean area, Ambergate Pl., 7500 block, 8 a.m. Feb. 9. Animal control officers responded after a raccoon bit a 28-year-old woman outside an apartment complex, but the officers could not find the raccoon. They returned at 1:15 p.m. after the raccoon bit a 10-year-old boy. The animal also chased a TV reporter while the journalist was doing an interview about the biting incidents. The raccoon was located and euthanized. Lab results indicated it had rabies. Both bite victims received rabies inoculations.
We hadn't heard about the TV incident - that's funny.
the coon DID bite the kid? or was that another kid in the complex? And yeah, chasing the reporter is definitely funny.
At a minimum I'd be DEMANDING that the management company pay all her medical bills, not just what insurance doesn't cover. It shouldn't have to go to her insurance in the first place. I'd also be demanding lost wages (and intentionally scheduling administration of the medication when she'll *have* to miss time from work to ensure that part of the loss) plus punitives. The fact that they knew a year ago that there were problems but did nothing sounds like a huge liability issue, and add in that a second person got bitten on the same day and the TV crew got attacked .... I'd be going for everything I could get, and I'd probably look into filing a joint suit with the parents of that 10 year old.
Yep, this one calls for blood...
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As best we could tell, there were some scratches, and apparently they couldn't tell if it actually bit him, so they had to give him the shots and report it as a bite.
His case was far stronger than Eve's was, since they let 4 hours go by without warning the residents.
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