Waukesha raccoons and humans enraged
TO THE FREEMAN July 13, 2008
Many months have passed since we’ve set pen to paper in a letter to the editor of your newspaper. We vowed never again to write to you until you rid the pages of our beloved local (and historic) newspaper of the comments of Revolter, Bellering & etc.
But “It is a Long Road That Never Turns…………..”
And, “Times change, and with them, their demands.”
Something has come up of such community concern that we of the part of town known as the Sewer Raccoon District must speak out. That district is centered at Arcadian Avenue and Colton Street, including the railroad crossing one block away from here. [The coordinates more familiar to your readers are Arcadian and Hartwell.]
We residents of this immediate vicinity – both above and below ground – have had it with the mega-blaring train horns day and night. Especially at night. We understand that there is some dispute as to who is at fault in the easing of the restrictions designed to create quiet zones as the many, many, many trains pass through our city.
The populace is becoming uneasy over this. Petitions are being circulated. Politicians’ offices are in danger, for the trains and their horn decibels in the approaching distance bisect several aldermanic territories. Alas, we fear that somehow the mantle of disgrace (noose) will be hung around the already-laden neck of the well-meaning Mayor Larry Nelson.
There is an internet organ called the Sewer Raccoon News emanating from the raccoon district. It has not taken up the cudgel of the train blarings yet, but it about to.
The raccoons, co-citizens of this zone, are mumbling as they slip into the storm grates about how living in the sewers used to be an elective. Now, they must go below to protect their ears.
Those of us whose bedrooms are perforce above-ground and near to the tracks have no such option. We've even heard that church services are being disturbed.
BEWARE AN AROUSED POPULACE!
Managing Editor, Waukesha Sewer Raccoon News
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