Roadkill

We've all seen it, we've all swurved to dodge running it over for the 18th time...

If you're like me, when you notice a carcass on the road you try your hardest to NOT look at it, but inevitably you always find your eyes creeping towards the guts spilling from this poor, defenseless animal. Nasty, I know, but we're all curious humans right?

I have often thought why the hell isn't someone assigned to come clean this shit up? Shouldn't the city be in charge of this or can't they pay someone $20.00-$50.00 (depending on the size of course) an animal to get it up off the road? Of course if that were the case then they would have to hire an appraiser to come measure the animal and evaluate the amount of stomach churning and work that would be involved...

Anywho I don't understand why it's ok that we allow these poor animals to just evaporate into thin air. That can't be good for anyone. For example...I work in a building that is attached to Hwy 89; we have had roadkill a.k.a a racoon in the middle of the road for about 3wks now. It's right in the median in my way of getting over so I can pull into our parking lot. When I first noticed it, it still looked like a cute, furry animal...that I could go pick up and hug...but slowly and well, surely it now looks like an old dirty rug, or maybe a piece of a mink coat that PETA threw out the window of a driving car.

My point is how come it's okay for us to just let these animals be ran over 23.8 times and eventually either become a piece of your car, a piece of the road, or part of our oh-so healthy breathing air? What if as humans, when we passed away they just threw us in the middle of a busy road just hoping that we'd deteriorate before next month's Cherry Days parade? But then again we don't find ourselves playing in and booking it across a busy road in hopes to make it to the other side alive. mmhhhmm, no there's something to ponder.

P.S. This can't be healthy eating for the birds. No wonder they are all so fat.