{"id":347,"date":"2005-08-24T07:11:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T15:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/08\/the_improbable_journey.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:19:06","slug":"the_improbable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/the_improbable.html","title":{"rendered":"The Improbable Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illustrating how deer and bears likely migrated to Manhattan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/339913p-290261c.html\">a raccoon yesterday made the trip on a bus arriving from Montclair, NJ<\/a>. The raccoon went unnoticed by a bus full of students until the driver something odd walking down the aisle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A New Jersey raccoon made an improbable journey to the big city yesterday, stowing away on a crowded charter bus unnoticed until all of the passengers had gotten off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, man, it scared me,&#8221; said Decamp driver Winford Bellamy, 57, who spotted the masked bandit while driving drove down 11th Ave. near W. 51st St.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I looked in my mirror, and saw him just walking up the aisle to the front of the bus,&#8221; Bellamy said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-foot female raccoon came strolling down the aisle minutes after Bellamy dropped off his 50 passengers, a group of Montclair State University students, at a firehouse on W. 51st St.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after seeing the raccoon, the shocked driver pulled up alongside a police car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Man, I got an animal in this bus,&#8221; he told a cop.<\/p>\n<p>The officer instructed Bellamy to turn on 40th St. and get out of the bus.<\/p>\n<p>By the time NYPD Emergency Service Unit officers arrived, the raccoon was clinging to the curtains above the bus&#8217; door.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Brian Glacken, 30, opened the driver-side window and hit the normally nocturnal animal with a tranquilizer dart.<\/p>\n<p>The dazed raccoon was collared moments later.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The raccoon was later killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustrating how deer and bears likely migrated to Manhattan, a raccoon yesterday made the trip on a bus arriving from Montclair, NJ. The raccoon went unnoticed by a bus full of students until the driver something odd walking down the aisle: A New Jersey raccoon made an improbable journey to the big city yesterday, stowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-channeling_jd_salinger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}