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General Category => National Outdoor News Headlines => Topic started by: mudbrook on November 15, 2007, 09:04:49 AM
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Teacher Dispatches Raccoon With Nail Gun
The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 13, 2007; 11:22 PM
HUNTSVILLE, Ark. -- A high school teacher killed a raccoon with a nail gun after discovering the planned subject of a skinning demonstration was alive.
Superintendent Alvin Lievsay said a student's parent promised to bring in a raccoon for the exercise, but surprised teacher Jerick Hutchinson by bringing the animal in a live trap. Lievsay said Hutchinson, "who used to work in a slaughter house," took the animal outside to the back of his truck Friday and shot it with the nail gun. Lievsay said no students witnessed the raccoon's death.
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