That's just the way it works...
By JJ
@JolietJake (50190)
May 24, 2016 2:42pm CST
So I was perambulating along the railroad tracks earlier to see what I could see.
And I saw a raccoon.
Well, half of a raccoon.
The front half.
The trains here haul grain.
One of the cars spilled some.
Mr Raccoon thought that'd be good to eat.
In the middle of the tracks.
And another train got him.
And then something ate the back half of him.
Bleh.
Meanwhile, here's a photo of a snake to take your mind off of the dead raccoon.
At least the snake is whole and alive...or at least it was when I left.
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I thought maybe you were going to say you saw this snake gnawing at the raccoon! 
May the raccoon rest in peace, or pieces 
@JolietJake (50190)
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24 May 16
The snake was a bit hungry (one of them anyway, there were two)
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@JolietJake (50190)
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24 May 16
@much2say He gave up after a few minutes, just too big for him
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@JohnRoberts (109845)
• Los Angeles, California
24 May 16
That bad boy is keeling cool.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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24 May 16
I sat and spent about an hour photographing a pair of snakes today
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@sulynsi (2671)
• Canada
24 May 16
@JolietJake
I saw a snake in the grass - when I was mowing today.
It was a garter snake - what kind is this? It looks big...poisonous?
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
24 May 16
Thanks for taking my mind off the blood and guts
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@yukimori (10179)
• United States
25 May 16
You show me yours, I have to show you mine... is that how it still works?
Mine's captive, though... lives at the local sanctuary. They had him out last week for one of the school groups when I dropped by to try catching a glimpse of the leopards.
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@yukimori (10179)
• United States
25 May 16
@JolietJake ooh, looks like a really nifty spot!
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@JolietJake (50190)
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25 May 16
Mine could have been captive but I figured Scar would get jealous.
This is where I was hanging out when I took the photos.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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25 May 16
@yukimori It was a favorite hangout when I was a young kid, but there's so much trash there these days, and the area has really filled in with stuff washed down the creek when it floods...but I still had a very relaxing hour just sitting around and watching stuff 
@TheHorse (227739)
• Walnut Creek, California
24 May 16
@JolietJake Non-venomous, the eyes suggest. Do they let you pick them up? Here in CA, our garter snakes do (though they emit a stinky substance in protest), but the gopher snakes are more likely to get irritated and bite you. I'm not sure about the king snakes.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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24 May 16
Just a common banded water snake, they're extremely common around here
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@Curlybobby (370)
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25 May 16
Gosh!! Too many snakes out here! They give me the jitters! Weren't you scared of the snake while taking pictures? And fifty odd pictures on that!!
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@JolietJake (50190)
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25 May 16
Naw, there's nothing to be afraid of. They aren't interested in me, I'm too big for food and I wasn't threatening them in any way.
@JolietJake (50190)
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25 May 16
@Curlybobby I admit to actually being a bit excited as I was coming down the hill to the area and realized there were two of them prowling it.
@Curlybobby (370)
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25 May 16
@JolietJake All logic fails me when I see a snake :p
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@Juliaacv (53798)
• Canada
25 May 16
@JolietJake OMG JJ, weren't you the least bit freaked out by that ugly creature? My skin is crawling right now. Has the Scar ever encountered any snakes, usually dogs, I don't know about cats, but dogs don't know what to do with them and usually steer clear of them.
@JolietJake (50190)
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25 May 16
@Juliaacv I used to go hunt snakes all the time, I have no fear of them. I'm not sure what Scar would do, probably attack it like a piece of string.
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@DWDavis (25809)
• United States
25 May 16
@JolietJake Oh thanks. That's just the added ingredient to make sure my dreams turn into nightmares - demonic squirrels.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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25 May 16
Actually the raccoon probably fell prey to one of the demonic squirrels
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
25 May 16
he has the eyes of a non biting sort at least,
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
24 May 16
@JolietJake - "JJ" - That was probably the only raccoon in the world that did not wash its hands before eating. Bad habits will do it to a guy every time. He could have been at the faucet instead of in the middle of the train track. 
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@JolietJake (50190)
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24 May 16
If he'd have been smart, he'd have been eating the leftover squirrel corn out front like a couple others do
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
25 May 16
@JolietJake That reminds me:
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@JolietJake (50190)
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24 May 16
We'll likely never know, but with his 'tude, he'd probably mess with it
@JolietJake (50190)
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24 May 16
I'm just sitting here waiting for someone to ask for a picture of the raccoon
@JolietJake (50190)
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25 May 16
I think if I saw one big enough to eat the raccoon, I'd photograph it from a much longer distance just to be careful
@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
25 May 16
Snakes creep me out. But thanks for that!
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@JolietJake (50190)
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25 May 16
Snakes seem to freak lots of people out, but I've always been fascinated by them.
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