oh. do i have this much typing in me? ugh. this is at a swapmeet in Ohio, where, they have extraordinary dog races. to the right of the figure above is a pack of hound dogs. the real thing. they are swimming across this pond chasing... please recall the bugs bunny episode where the dogs are chasing the mechanical bunny around the track... chasing the home-made-with-pvc-pipe contraption in the fellow's hands... mounted atop is a small wire cage holding the most phenominally freightened stiff live young wet raccoon. as the dogs come ashore, this dude guides the pvc sled-boat up the telephone pole, whereupon the dogs leap up the pole at said raccoon, baying and barking (in exactly the manner that turns your heart cold if you happen to have recently escaped from a maximum security prison) at the now 10' tall vertical racoon cage. the owners collect their dogs, the winner collects their cash (naturally we were betting cash money on this spectacle) and the 'coonbait' is motored bach across the pond to await the next exciting race. and there were many races. if there is Karma, and you end up as this raccoon, you have so fucked up in such an amazing way that you are experiencing hell in your own particular spectacular way just for you.