The most Toronto tweet that has ever happened

[sabotabby]

the fact that heather mallick still has her column is the #1 piece of evidence of what a union can do for you at your workplace

sign a union card todayhttps://t.co/RiHwQVByHo

— Michael O'Shaughnessy (@MDNOShaughnessy) April 22, 2019

Context for non-Canadians: Heather Mallick is among the several local journalists who cannot appear to write a coherent article from start to finish and remains employed despite a surplus of young journalists who would do a better job for much less money. She wrote a column today about stabbing a raccoon with a fork and how the raccoon possibly wanted to have sex with her??? I don't know. It's very incoherent and so many bad things happen in the world that it's really delightful that the entire city can come together to laugh at this.

If you're worried, the raccoon is fine.

Comments

[curgoth]

Cute, yes, friendly, no. their attitude is more "Leave the lid off the trash bin and no one has to get hissed at. But I'm still gonna poop on your deck and take a leak on your welcome may, because your compost bin didn't have enough coffee grounds in it this week. Nice garden gnome, be a shame if something... happened to it."

[lapinlunaire]

So... like cats?

I guess what I was trying to ask is if they attack people? If they're not aggressive to humans then I can't begin to imagine why someone would try to fight one. :(

[sabotabby]

They can be more aggressive than cats and do carry rabies a lot. So it's not best to get into a disagreement with them. They are best admired from a safe distance even though they are hella cute.

[curgoth]

Also, if all one knows of raccoons is youtube videos or rural raccoons, please understand that the ones in Toronto are twice that size, much smarter, and do not know fear.