By Chad Love

Living in a rural area, I've had to trap my share of nuisance coons, and I can say without reservation that I've never, ever encountered a raccoon with a yellow streak. When cornered, they're pretty damn fierce. But Pennsylvania raccoons? They've definitely got a yellow streak.

While repainting traffic lines, road crews in Pennsylvania inadvertently laid a fresh coat of yellow paint over an unforeseen obstruction. A dead raccoon, seen by motorists earlier this week, was caught beneath the paint gun of the crew’s vehicle. A motorcyclist, Sean McAfee, noticed the coated road kill on his way home from work and took a photo of the flattened critter covered with yellow paint. “When I saw it, I almost wrecked my motorcycle because I was laughing so hard,” McAfee told The Tribune-Democrat.

A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said the accident was unavoidable. “They did try to stop the paint gun,” traffic engineer John Ambrosini told The Tribune-Democrat. “But with the amount of congestion Thursday, the squirrelly geometry of the road and the size of the equipment, they couldn’t turn around to go back and fix the mistake.”

Thoughts? Reaction? Witty observations? Transportation department jokes?

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from Douglas wrote 43 weeks 5 days ago

I've seen similar pictures as this before with the caption "Not part of my job description".

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from NorCal Cazadora wrote 43 weeks 5 days ago

Road crews did the same thing near my house this summer, except it was a flattened opossum.

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from FOX wrote 43 weeks 4 days ago

Wait penn dot did work. now i dont care if they paint over dead things just as long as they get to work on the pot holes on main street.p.s i live in pa

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from RockySquirrel wrote 43 weeks 4 days ago

Chad you should be ashamed of yourself.

I read the original article days ago from the Tribune Democrat and looked up other articles by the the guy who wrote the article. It was written by Journalism intern. A kid, who made it to the wire services as an intern and you snagged his quotes and didn’t give him any credit. You are a professional too. What kind of example does that show an intern. At least you ought to call the paper and offer the guy a free subscription or something.

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from RockySquirrel wrote 43 weeks 2 days ago

Chad;
Even though this thread is stale and probably long forgotten; For the record. I did check with a buddy of mine who works at a newspaper, and the tradition is you give credit to the publication and not necessarily the reporter and you did that as requires. I over reacted and owe you an apology. I was wrong.

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from Red Salas wrote 43 weeks 2 days ago

Ive seen it before.

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from FOX wrote 43 weeks 4 days ago

Wait penn dot did work. now i dont care if they paint over dead things just as long as they get to work on the pot holes on main street.p.s i live in pa

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from RockySquirrel wrote 43 weeks 4 days ago

Chad you should be ashamed of yourself.

I read the original article days ago from the Tribune Democrat and looked up other articles by the the guy who wrote the article. It was written by Journalism intern. A kid, who made it to the wire services as an intern and you snagged his quotes and didn’t give him any credit. You are a professional too. What kind of example does that show an intern. At least you ought to call the paper and offer the guy a free subscription or something.

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from Douglas wrote 43 weeks 5 days ago

I've seen similar pictures as this before with the caption "Not part of my job description".

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from NorCal Cazadora wrote 43 weeks 5 days ago

Road crews did the same thing near my house this summer, except it was a flattened opossum.

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from RockySquirrel wrote 43 weeks 2 days ago

Chad;
Even though this thread is stale and probably long forgotten; For the record. I did check with a buddy of mine who works at a newspaper, and the tradition is you give credit to the publication and not necessarily the reporter and you did that as requires. I over reacted and owe you an apology. I was wrong.

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from Red Salas wrote 43 weeks 2 days ago

Ive seen it before.

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