ny cop pulls yogurt container off baby skunk’s head , skunk not grateful

[Liberal_in_LA]

Sometimes cops are caught in stinky situations.

Officer Merlin Taylor of the Rochester Police Department in Michigan came to the rescue of a baby skunk whose head somehow got stuck inside a yogurt container Sunday morning.

The police dash cam recorded the hilarious heroism and the department uploaded the video to their Facebook page shortly after the rescue.

As Taylor slowly drives up to the baby skunk, the squirrely animal frantically runs in circles, unable to escape the container’s grasp.

In the video, Taylor carefully reaches his gloved hand out to snatch the container off the skunk’s head and misses. After a couple failed attempts, he finally frees the animal from its plastic prison.

But the skunk is anything but grateful.

The teeny animal freezes with its tail raised and aims toward the officer ready to shoot. Fearful of getting a faceful of odorous perfume, Taylor runs away. But the skunk is still too young to spray and nothing comes out.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pries-yogurt-container-skunk-head-article-1.2312998

[tomm2thumbs]

1. thanks for the laugh - enjoyed the video!

[narnian60]

2. Thank you,

kind officer.

[Stardust]

3. Your subject line is hilarious! Now I know where the expression "high-tailin' it" came from.

[Journeyman]

4. Braver man than I. Getting a finger bit would have been my fear . . .

Help out a little critter, spend weeks getting rabies shots.

[PassingFair]

5. Rochester MICHIGAN not NY....

Because I live near there...

[Octafish]

12. Flyover Country

Down I-75 from you, in Detroit.

[notadmblnd]

47. And I'm north west of you

Waterford

[navarth]

51. +1

[llmart]

13. Thank you....

I was going to post that also since I work there.

Rochester was voted one of the best small cities to live in the USA.

[Liberal_in_LA]

36. oops. only knew of one Rochester

[PassingFair]

43. I would have thought the same thing...

News source was NY based, too.

[hfojvt]

65. really?

Never heard of the Mayo Clinic?

Rochester, Minnesota.

Also one in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois

Some are pretty small, and I may have missed some since I used an atlas and not the internets.

But there's only ONE Waunakee.

[RoccoR5955]

67. And here I thought Rochester

was Jack Benny's live in butler of sorts.

[hfojvt]

68. apparently I missed a whole lot of them anyway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester

Although my internet search for Rochester was dominated by Rochester, New York, and some of those in wiki are just "census designated places" and then I had to find out what the heck THAT was. It's not a township nor an unincorporated town. More like a town without a name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census-designated_place

Makes me wonder if Pellettown is on the list (the name I made up for the place where my dad lives which used to be part of a farm owned by a Mr. Pellett.

[MrScorpio]

46. Same here, about 20 mins away.

The amount of wildlife in Suburban Detroit is impressive.

[notadmblnd]

48. Had a wild turky, wouldn't let me out of the car one day

guess he was guarding his hens.

[navarth]

52. My brother lives in Roch. Hills, and

apparently the deer population is a problem.

Naturally it opens an opportunity for all the Ted Nugents in the area to kill something.

[niyad]

6. now, THAT was cute.

kudos for kindness.

[denbot]

7. Good cop, bad skunk..

Kudos Officer Taylor.

[Auggie]

17. Or: Good cop, bad litterer

Wildlife wouldn't get caught in these situations if people weren't such lazy/uncaring slobs.

[denbot]

30. True, but skunks are gifted trash can raiders

If the trash can lid isn't secure, skunks are right behind raccoons in the cafeteria line.

[hifiguy]

34. Yep. That they are.

[Auggie]

35. So make sure the lid is closed tightly ...

still the mark of sloppy people.

[mythology]

55. Obviously you haven't had a bear break your door down

Animals are pretty inventive and insistent about getting into garbage.

[Auggie]

56. I'm discussing skunks. Bears are off topic.

[arikara]

69. Did you have a bear break in?

we had one do a rampage through the back yard. The Mr hung suet out a little too early one year and the bear tore down 2 clothes lines one holding the suet and one holding some birdseed; and was rolling the hummingbird feeder around on the deck to lick out the sugar water. I heard the noise, looked out the window only to see a big black hairy ass pressed against it so I pounded on the window. He took off like a rocket that time... but we can't put anything including compost out until winter now. There is a problem animal around so everyone is on best behaviour as we don't want to see it have to be killed. It was going after one neighbours chickens and another's fruit tree.

[Beaverhausen]

8. HA HA!!! That is the best!

And sadly I have to say good for him for not just shooting it!

[DawgHouse]

9. Lucky little stinker!

[Catherine Vincent]

10. LOL! :)

[Ex Lurker]

11. No good deed goes unpunished NT

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. Once again a reminder: It's a neighborhood, not a war zone.

[roguevalley]

15. only thing cuter than baby owls and kittehs... :D:D:D

[Iliyah]

16. K & R

Nicely done.

[tclambert]

18. Rochester, MICHIGAN

at Christmas time:
https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/UycBB39ggBpcFezG3gFcWg--/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9NDkyO3E9OTU7dz03MzY-/

[cwydro]

53. Pretty!

What a nice sight!

[romanic]

60. Love the Christmas lights in Rochester.

[blaze]

70. NICE!! nt

[Aerows]

19. That skunk

is absolutely hilarious

Thank you, I needed a laugh!

[jtuck004]

20. MICHAEL:I saw an interesting thing happen today. A rebel was being arrested by the military police,

and rather than be taken alive, he exploded a grenade he had hidden in his jacket. He killed himself, and took a captain of the command with him.

ROTH looks concerned: Right JOHNNY.

JOHNNY OLA: Those rebels, you know, they're lunatics.

MICHAEL: Maybe so -- but it occurred to me. The soldiers are paid to fight -- the rebels aren't.

ROTH: What does that tell you?

MICHAEL: They can win. ...

Here.


Or maybe it's just a little furry animal...

[Renew Deal]

21. I'm glad everyone got away safely.

[Old Crow]

22. Yoplait yogurt container, I'm guessing.

For almost 20 years now, wildlife centers and animal rights activists have been trying to get the company to change its narrow-at-the-mouth/wide-at-the-bottom container design. When baited with smears of leftover yogurt, it's an effective death trap for foxes, skunks, possums, squirrels, and raccoons.

Yoplait has expressed zero interest in making a change.

[XemaSab]

31. That was my guess, too

I don't buy their yogurt.

[magical thyme]

32. another reason not to buy their crap.

[Liberal_in_LA]

37. .

[The Jungle 1]

23. critters are fun

Now that was fun. Good job sir. Not sure how I would have handled that one. I wonder if you hold down the tail will that prevent the stinky squirt. Well hold my beer and I will find out.

I live in the woods and have a lot of interaction with critters. Just last week I came home and my fur ball didn't greet me at the door. He is always there cause I feed him as soon as I get home. Wander into the living room and there he is having a stare off with a snake through the slider. To funny. So I watch for a while when I get a bright idea. I should catch the snake and give the cat a close up. So I go get the snake and bring him in. I thought that cat would head for the hills but he didn't. He kept sniffing the snake and getting bitten on the nose for his courisioty. It was a small snake with no fangs and could not do any damage. When the fun was over I put him in the stone wall.

I really should have got some pictures of that one.

Was on the HD yesterday and a hawk swooped down just a few feet in front of me. He was all flared out with his tallons leading the charge. I think I interupted his dinner shopping.

[jwirr]

24. Thank you Officer Taylor.

[passiveporcupine]

25. So glad he didn't get skunked

That little guy is adorable...so "scary"...

[tammywammy]

42. Yes, so scary!

A stray cat had some kittens on my deck. I was taking care of them before they went to their new homes (they were already weaned). There were a couple that would just hiss and spit at me when I was holding them. I kept telling them "oh you're soooooo scary and mean!" But they'd huss when I was petting them.

That's what that skunk reminded me of.

[Historic NY]

26. Good thing it was shooting blanks...

I had one the exterminator set a cage for but he neglected to show me how he rigged it to open. After three days I went out and gave it something to eat while I figured out how to open it. It must have been grateful because it walked out looked back at me and just kept on going. Its never been back..

[Omaha Steve]

27. Thanks for posting

Great story.

[DashOneBravo]

28. That's great

Thank you for posting that.

[Kali]

29. trust me they can spray at that age/size

oh yes they can
7 - yes 7! so far! under our house this past week.

they are carriers of rabies in my area, animal control would have been called around here. if rabies is a question in that area the animal should be captured (and being out in broad daylight is not a good sign)

yes they are cute as hell, but not really safe animals at all

[Politicalboi]

38. Being out in daylight may have been because

The container was on it's head for some time, and then the sun came up. It seemed to be walking in the shade while the container was on it's head.

[magical thyme]

33. thank you kind officer!

the video looks funny and of course it all came out ok, but that poor skunky must have been terrified. Hopefully it learned to stay out of containers...

[GoneFishin]

39. I always cut those inverted taper Yoplait containers open for exactly that reason. NT

[burrowowl]

40. Love IT!!!!

Brave Cop!

[chknltl]

41. As a child in Germany I helped save a young hedghog from a similar fate.

Our garbage area was an open bin behind the house, it frequently had mice, rats and crows raiding it. One morning while taking out the trash I discovered a young hedgehog with it's head stuck in a mayonnaise jar. So I took the stuck hedgehog back inside where my dad and I worked it out from the jar and then we released it back near the garbage bin. (Despite my protests, dad refused to let me keep it).

[Egnever]

44. So awesome!

thanks!

[DesMoinesDem]

45. 2 cups 1 skunk

v

[Orrex]

49. Proof that skunks don't react well to a little culture.

[raccoon]

50. A good cop. nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

54. Awwwwwww! Adorable little skunky. Glad she got saved!

Poor little mite was so scared.




That footage of skunky butt was too cute, though. ❤️

[Butterbean]

57. Okay, that's adorable. n/t

[lonestarnot]

58. Ditto.

[IDemo]

59. "Dispatch, we got a black and white down at 7th and York."

[BeanMusical]

61. Good thing that it was too young to spray.

No good deeds goes unpunished apparently. Glad that it didn't get worse.

[lark]

62. Good ending for both!

So glad the officer didn't get a facefull of skunk as a reward for his good deed.

[tblue37]

63. Like a cute little kitten's fuzzed up threat display. nt

[Angry Dragon]

64. kick

[RoccoR5955]

66. Bummer!

It would have been amusing to see what a pig looks like with skunk juice all over him!