How Did I Miss This?

Does this street corner look familiar?

How about now?

How about now?

Ahhh, now you get it. 

This poor little guy made headlines around the world and here he was lying on my corner for 16 hours and I didn't notice him. [Love the framed photo and condolence card.]

But lying there 16 hours on the busiest street in Toronto?

City officials said, of course, nothing unusual with waiting that long to pick up a dead raccoon.  They have 24 hours to pick up cadavers.

I guess......

But come on - they were first told of this fellow's demise at 7am.  Then Twitter got it at 9am.

Then a city Councillor repeatedly pleaded with them to come and pick it up.  All to no avail.

Until close to midnight, when the "vigil" was in full swing, when a city employee came by and dumped him in a green garbage bag, with the comment to bystanders, Come on people, it's a dead raccoon.

And you wonder why people often think these city employees are uncaring doofuses. They just can't help themselves.

So this morning, when I finally found out about it......

....somebody has taken the time to memorialize "Conrad".

Wonder how long the city will take to get rid of this tribute.

Probably will have to rip up the sidewalk - city procedures, people.