A Raccoon Started 'Renting' This Family's Deck — Their Increasingly Desperate Eviction Attempts Have The Internet Taking Sides
Team Raccoon and Team Deck are locked in a battle no one is winning. Except the raccoon.
He appeared one night on the deck furniture, sitting upright in a patio chair like he'd been invited. The family named him Gerald before they realized naming him was strategically the worst possible move.
The eviction attempts read like a comedy of errors: motion lights (he enjoys them), ultrasonic repellents (he sat on one), removing the bird feeder (he switched to inspecting the grill), and a rubber owl (found face-down in the yard two days later, a message everyone understood).
The family's updates gathered a following, which promptly split into factions. Team Deck cites property rights and the grill incident. Team Gerald points out that he's never actually damaged anything and 'has more personality than most tenants.'
Current status: an uneasy truce. Gerald gets the deck from midnight to five. The family pretends this was their idea. The rubber owl has been retired with honors, and everyone involved knows exactly who won.
