Yup, lots of fun "Above the Toothline", LOL...I've watched NorthWoods Law, quite a few people up there missing their teeth lol....
Maine woman takes raccoon into Petco for nail trim, possibly exposing people to rabies
A woman who brought a raccoon into a Maine Petco allowed people to touch and kiss the animal, potentially exposing them to rabies, authorities said.news.yahoo.com
Boy, that was a mistake...I've watched NorthWoods Law, quite a few people up there missing their teeth lol....
Maine woman takes raccoon into Petco for nail trim, possibly exposing people to rabies
A woman who brought a raccoon into a Maine Petco allowed people to touch and kiss the animal, potentially exposing them to rabies, authorities said.
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WTFBoy, that was a mistake...
Raccoon euthanized after woman brings it to an Auburn pet store and other customers kiss it
By PATRICK WHITTLE May 28, 2023
AUBURN— A raccoon in Maine was euthanized and tested for rabies after a woman brought it into a pet store for a nail trim and some customers kissed it, state wildlife authorities said.
The raccoon tested negative for the disease, and there is no rabies risk to the public, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife spokesperson Mark Latti said Sunday. However, raccoons are one of the most common carriers of rabies in the state, and bringing the wild animal into a pet store constituted an unnecessary risk to public health, Latti said.
The woman, who has not been identified by authorities, brought the raccoon into an Auburn pet store on Tuesday, the wildlife department said. She was seeking to get the animal’s nails trimmed, which is a service the store does not provide to raccoons, the department said.
Several different people handled the animal and some kissed it, the wildlife department said. The store’s manager then asked the woman to leave and contacted the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the department said.
The raccoon was then tested for the disease, which came back negative, but necessitated euthanizing it, Latti said. There is no nonlethal test for rabies in animals, he said.
Rabies is almost always fatal in humans once symptoms appear, and potential sufferers need to seek treatment immediately. Wildlife is best left alone, though animal control authorities can also be notified if the animals appear to be in distress, Latti said.
“When they lose their fear of people they are more likely to become a nuisance or be run over by a vehicle,” Latti said.
The wildlife department said store customers who touched the animal should still contact their healthcare providers as a precaution. Raccoons are capable of transferring other diseases along to humans and other animals as well.
The pet store, a location of the national chain Petco, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday. A representative for the local store referred a request to the company’s corporate office in San Diego.
The only test for rabies is a post-mortem examination of brain tissue...
Been following this one for almost a year now. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.Maine Has the Lithium America Needs, But Won't Allow Mining
Gem hunters in Maine found one of the richest lithium deposits in the U.S. State laws mean they can't mine it.time.com
Purple smoke returns Friday to skies above Portland waste plant
Ecomaine officials said Thursday that the issue was likely caused by a larger-than-normal amount of iodine in the waste stream.
Purple-pink smoke at Ecomaine Friday morning. Photo courtesy Alexander Hitchen
Alexander Hitchen had just dropped his daughter off at school Friday morning and was headed south to South Portland when he saw an unusual sight: a large plume of purple vapor rising in the air over the Maine Turnpike.
His first thought was that it was some kind of alert from the Portland International Jetport, then realized that it was coming from a chimney stack at Ecomaine’s waste-to-energy plant in Portland.
“I was thinking this really is how Stephen King novels start, where some guy sees it and thinks, ‘Let’s check it out,'” he said.
Lizzy Snyder, a radio deejay from Lewiston, said she thought the smoke might be a “very big gender reveal” when she saw it Friday morning from the Maine Turnpike. She said in a Facebook message that she was driving through Westbrook on her way to Pennsylvania to visit family with her wife and son when the pink smoke suddenly appeared.
“Our jaws dropped when we saw a massive cloud of hot pink smoke being pumped into the skies. At first we didn’t notice the chimney it was coming out of, so we were confused and thought it was a very big gender reveal, “ said Snyder, 37, co-host of the Matt & Lizzy morning show on Augusta-based 92 Moose.
Spot burner!!Crap, hitting a ledge 90 min before high tide. Somebody's got some "splaining" to do...
Ferry damaged rudders, propellers when it struck ledge near Vinalhaven
The Capt. Richard G. Spear, the Maine State Ferry Service's newest ferry, had just left Vinalhaven bound for Rockland when it hit the ledge, transportation officials said Thursday.
The ferry Captain Richard G. Spear is at Rockland Marine Corp. where damage to one rudder is visible and the loss of another. Stephen Betts/The Courier-Gazette
ROCKLAND — The state ferry service’s newest vessel suffered significant damage when it struck a ledge off Vinalhaven during a run from Vinalhaven to Rockland on Wednesday.
The starboard rudder of the Capt. Richard G. Spear was damaged and the port rudder was broken off when the ferry struck the ledge. There was also damage to both propellers, according to a release from the Maine Department of Transportation.
Maine State Ferry Service Director William Geary declined Thursday to discuss the cause of the accident. Geary, who was hired in June, was out of town when reached by telephone.
The person captaining the Spear on Wednesday is a long-time ferry service employee with experience making the run between Vinalhaven and Rockland, the DOT said in the release.
The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating the accident.
The Spear was pulling away from Vinalhaven shortly after 10:30 a.m., about 90 minutes before high tide, when it struck the ledge. There were 65 passengers and five crew members aboard, and no one was injured.
Rockland City Councilor Adam Lachman was one of the passengers. He said the vessel hit the ledge hard and the boat rocked for about 15 seconds afterward.
“We had just left Vinalhaven. It was a ledge outside of Sands Cove which is adjacent to Vinalhaven’s Carver’s Harbor. It was quite foggy. Within about 15 to 20 minutes we were back at the ferry terminal and they offloaded cars and passengers. The next boat arrived on schedule and the 1 p.m. left with many of the passengers who had been on board,” Lachman said.
The Spear returned to Vinalhaven to unload passengers and then sailed to Rockland Marine Corp. shipyard repair facility in Rockland, where it was inspected Thursday. The Everett Libby did the Spear’s runs Thursday.
The Spear was already scheduled to be out of service next week for a routine U.S. Coast Guard inspection, the DOT said Thursday. The Capt. E. Frank Thompson and the Capt. Charles Philbrook will operate scheduled runs between Rockland and Vinalhaven until the Spear returns to service.
The Spear has been serving Vinalhaven since March 2022. The $10.2 million ferry was launched on April 9, 2021, at the Washburn & Doughty shipyard in East Boothbay, but the vessel was not delivered to the Maine State Ferry Service dock in Rockland until the middle of January 2022.
The ferry can carry 250 passengers and 23 motor vehicles.
The 15-mile ferry run from Vinalhaven to Rockland takes about 90 minutes. The ferry service has been hampered by staffing shortages, and pay has been cited as a reason. Captains make about $70,000 annually, not including overtime.
The 104-foot-long ferry Everett Libby ran aground on June 3, 2010, shortly after leaving Vinalhaven. No one was injured.
LOL, the Maine coast is "Ledges R Us". None of us use SS props, because "when" we hit an unmarked ledge, we would rather take out an aluminum prop than a SS prop, the gear system, and the drive shaft...
Islands are a special level of concern, beautiful places to visit, but you probably don't want to live there...
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing the story and photo.Reluctant to bore you folks with "Home Tales", but this one is worth telling. The local lighthouse, Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, a place I'm a volunteer docent at, is very photogenic. It has a strategically located tidepool that everyone, and I mean everyone, who lives here uses to take a photo like this.
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That one is not mine, don't feel like scrolling through the server to find. Suffice it to say, that we all have one, and most of us have a print of it hanging in the house, another de rigueur part of life here, just like just about everybody from NY retires in Florida
Well someone recently posting on the Maine Photography Facebook page upped the game recently, with a nighttime reflection picture. Really beautiful!!
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No corn field concerts to bore us with?Reluctant to bore you folks with "Home Tales", but this one is worth telling. The local lighthouse, Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, a place I'm a volunteer docent at, is very photogenic. It has a strategically located tidepool that everyone, and I mean everyone, who lives here uses to take a photo like this.
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That one is not mine, don't feel like scrolling through the server to find. Suffice it to say, that we all have one, and most of us have a print of it hanging in the house, another de rigueur part of life here, just like just about everybody from NY retires in Florida
Well someone recently posting on the Maine Photography Facebook page upped the game recently, with a nighttime reflection picture. Really beautiful!!
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