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Iowa Lawmaker Tells PETA Not to Have a Cow Over Raccoon Kill
On Tuesday, the animal welfare group challenged the Iowa Republican to “pick on someone your own size, not a small animal seeking warmth in a blizzard.”
“It doesn’t give you comfort in your representatives when a member of Congress finds it amusing to boast of shooting a desperately cold animal who is 100 times smaller than he is and whose only misstep was trying to get into a large, warm house,” Jaime Zalac, a PETA spokeswoman, said a written statement provided to FoxNews.com.
“I hope he’s not on any committees that made decisions regarding cruel and unusual punishment,” Zalac added. “Decent people would call animal control for help, not get on Twitter to boast about having a really, really big gun.”
I wonder if Zalac lives in the middle of a large city, where raccoons aren’t common visitors? Obviously, Jaime isn’t aware that raccoons, quite commonly, carry rabies. Perhaps we should toss a raccoon or two into his home, and see how he reacts.
Last week, King tweeted that a “Crazy Raccoon chewing & clawing his way into my house” didn’t make it out alive.
“Desert Eagle 1, Crazy Raccoon 0,” King wrote, revealing the pistol he used to kill the raccoon.
LOL I like this guy!
Yeah, they’re cute little suckers, but ya see those teeth? They can do some serious damage.
King told Fox News on Tuesday that he’d offer PETA more hospitality than the animal.
“That crazy coon ran up against ‘a man’s home is his castle’ and this man’s castle won. But if it had been PETA volunteers outside in the middle of a blizzard, I’d like to think they would have rang the doorbell, instead of trying to claw into the house. And I would have given them shelter for the night and served them bacon and eggs the next morning,” he said in a statement.
Heh. I know some folks that wouldn’t have been so polite. I might, but it would be depend how loony they are at the time. 
But then, I’m a nice person too.
King is awesome. If it had been Leonard Boswell, they wouldn’t have said a bleepin’ word.
“King told Fox News on Tuesday that he’d offer PETA more hospitality than the animal.”
Seems appropriate to me, that showing them more hospitality would include a dinner of coon and possum… heh, heh, heh!
Most excellent idea. LOL
King’s statement shows what sort of man he is. Instead of learning from a mistake, or apologizing for his crassness, he just continues to insult. Even if you don’t agree with PETA, I think most reasonable people can see what a country bumpkin King is. Can’t even make complete thoughts and statements. Oh brother, our world is a mess when he is an elected official.
Crassness? Insult? What the flock are you talking about? King didn’t insult PETA. Reading comprehension is a good thing.
FYI, he IS an elected official. Don’t know much about raccoons, do ya!
Glad to see theres finally a lawmaker here that isnt a moron!
Gimmie is also an elitist jackass. Country bumpkin? Last time I checked, FOOL, our country was founded by common men and designed to be run by common men, not career politicians and elitist asshats. Im sorry youre too narrow minded to see that elected officials outside of NY and LA liberal circles have a brain in their head, whether or not you may like it.
So youre suggesting a man should let any wild animal that wants, tear into and THROUGH his house?
I have an idea. Why dont we let some coons, skunks, snakes, mountain lions, bears, foxes, squirrels and beavers into YOUR house? We will see how you react, and make fun of you and complain about your reaction.
And btw a coon can kill a full grown dog, in the right circumstances, imagine what it can do to you or your children.
Oh Id also be interested to know what time this was occuring, and what county / town he lives in.
“Animal control” isnt always available, sometimes not at all. Depending on time / location. But elitist asshats wouldnt bother with trivial information like that.
Also, 100 times smaller? wouldnt that make the coon the size of an ant or him the size of king kong? lol