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Tanuki trouble

Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 11:39 -0700
by Stan Sakai
This has nothing to do with Usagi but you very rarely hear about tanuki in the news.

The Nagasaki Airport, the world's first "floating airport" built on Mishima Island, is plagued by these raccoon-like dogs. Hopefully, I'll get the URL right so you can log on to it. There's also a picture.

[url]http:mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20021101p2a00m0fp039000c.html[/url]

Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 11:43 -0700
by Stan Sakai
I must have gotten a zero and an oh mixed up. Anyway, you can get to it from the Mainichi Shimbun website.

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/index.html

Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 11:45 -0700
by ghostdog

HAR HAR HAR!!! Now THAT'S FUNNY!!!

Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 13:16 -0700
by Akahige
:lol: HOW APPROPRIATE FOR SUCH A WELL-KNOWN TRICKSTER!! hee hee...if they get to be a serious nuisance, officials should look into trapping and removing them, to one of the national parks or adifferent island maybe...what a riot!

Re: Tanuki trouble

Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 13:19 -0700
by mhirtes
Stan Sakai wrote:This has nothing to do with Usagi but you very rarely hear about tanuki in the news.

The Nagasaki Airport, the world's first "floating airport" built on Mishima Island, is plagued by these raccoon-like dogs. Hopefully, I'll get the URL right so you can log on to it. There's also a picture.

[url]http:mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20021101p2a00m0fp039000c.html[/url]
Nice article. Thanks Stan.

I hope the airport officials rent a copy of Miyazaki's "Tanuki Ponpoko" before they decide to take any drastic measures with the little critters. They may be in for more than what they bargained for. ;)