Hat tip to ghosttruck.
I guess he was supposed to carry a raccoon sized life jacket or something. Not sure wtf he was supposed to do with it. Check your boat BEFORE you leave the dock is the moral of this story or be excoriated on the internet!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-man-raccoon-boat-apology
I guess he was supposed to carry a raccoon sized life jacket or something. Not sure wtf he was supposed to do with it. Check your boat BEFORE you leave the dock is the moral of this story or be excoriated on the internet!
A Florida man has apologized amid an investigation into a video posted to his social media account last week showing him allegedly shoo a stowaway raccoon off his boat to its presumed death while 20 miles offshore.
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“Knowing raccoons can be rabid and unpredictable, the only realistic option we could think of in that moment was to get the raccoon off the boat,” read the statement, in part.
Cope said in his initial Facebook post that the boat was about 20 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico when the raccoon appeared growling and hissing.
“Get off my f---ing boat,” a man, presumably Cope, yells in the video, which has ignited a furor across social media. “We're just going to have to push him off.”
The raccoon then appeared to fall off the boat. The video showed the raccoon paddling in the ocean.
“So long, sucker,” the man said.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission learned of the video on May 8 and began an investigation, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-man-raccoon-boat-apology