Found a case of party poppers and cap gun caps in the storage room from previous years' pranks.
Order of mousetraps, monofilament line, and metal stakes for securing tripwires should be here by the evening.
Let's see how these raccoons like what I have in store for them...
@azonenberg are you seriously going to Home Alone the wildlife
@azonenberg i feel like you're rube goldberging your way to a racoon cage trap
@krishean if i trap them i have to kill or release them after. If i just convince them to move elsewhere then i don't have to deal with that
@azonenberg trap/release seems like a shortcut, at least to me
@krishean releasing involves getting up close and personal with a caged, pissed off, possibly diseased raccoon. Or rigging up some kind of remote release mechanism.
And if I want to release anywhere but my own yard, I'd have to drive somewhere with the raccoon in the cage in the back of the car, including loading and unloading without being bit, etc.
Not my cup of tea. If trapping becomes necessary I'm gonna have a pro do it.
@azonenberg @krishean ... Trebuchet! With pillows in the cage for safety.