After Toronto unveiled its "raccoon-resistant" compost bins in 2016, some people feared the animals would be starved but many more celebrated the innovative design. Rolling out this novel locked bin opened a new battlefront in city's ongoing "war on raccoons."
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I'm Roman Mars.
Every November, Americans gather together to celebrate important traditions.
Shopping for doorbuster deals on 72 inch TVs, watching Snoopy Balloons float down 6th Avenue.
And we eat a lot of food.
Lots of food means lots of food waste.
And so after your Thanksgiving, you might find yourself hosting an unwanted second gathering.
Raccoons rummaging in your garbage for discarded turkey and uneaten yams.
Today, we're presenting a remixed all time favorite story we ran for Thanksgiving 2018.
It's about our friendly neighbors up north and their attempt to defend themselves from an invading army of trash pandas.
Enjoy.
The city of Toronto has a special relationship with raccoons.
Or at least they think they do.
We are not the only city with raccoons, but we often act like we are.
We like to think Toronto is the raccoon capital of the world.
And we're strangely proud of that distinction.
But we really have no data to back it up.
This is Amy Dempsey, a reporter for the Toronto Star.
Do we have more raccoons than, say, Chicago or Vancouver?
Well, we don't actually know.