By now everyone probably knows he got out again. MacCash certainly knows, anyway. As usual, though, Doug is not thinking his clever bits all the way through.
With the ground floor of Cheramie’s house locked down as tight as Alcatraz, Scrim made his way to the second story, where he found an open window, gnawed through the screen, and recklessly launched himself into space like Wile E. Coyote, plunging to the ground below.
I know it's passe to bemoan the death of the copy editor in professional news gathering organizations. But someone really should tell Doug that 1) You can't use an Alcatraz image in the same sentence as a Wile E. Coyote reference. Wile E. Coyote is not known for escaping from prison. Stick to one metaphor at a time. Also 2) Scrim is not Wile E. Coyote in this analogy anyway. He is the Road Runner. Individual attempts to apprehend him can only result in causing one to appear foolish.
Cheramie pleaded with the public to abandon any hope of catching the fleet dog and instead asked them to text her and her team immediately with the location of the Scrim sighting and the direction he is traveling (the number is 504-231-7865).
Cheramie is also quoted in that article issuing a corrective to the (hopefully toungue-in-cheek) popular sentiment that Scrim simply be allowed to roam free from now on. Even if he is having difficulty adjusting, it should be obvious that a comfortable home life is much safer and healthier than what he will find out on the streets. (The two bullets he took during his last adventure should be plenty enough evidence there.)
On the other hand, it's always possible we don't have all the information. To hear Entergy tell it, it is the stray animals themselves that pose the danger to everyone else.
NEW ORLEANS — Thousands of Entergy customers in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish are without power. Entergy confirmed to WDSU that an animal caused an electrical short and damaged equipment. The utility did not say what type of animal caused the outage that's impacting more than 12,000 customers on the Westbank.
Now I'm not suggesting that Scrim swam all the way across the river and took out a piece of Entergy infrastructure on his own. That would be downright nutty. But consider that he wouldn't actually have to act on his own. Not entirely.
Local news is so important, yall.
— Jeff Asher (@jeffasher.bsky.social) November 18, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Consider that we may only be aware of a mere fraction of Scrim's capabilities. We already know he's an escape artist. What hasn't been discussed publicly is the possibility that, once free, he has quickly reestablished himself in the underground. He's got contacts in the squirrel, rat, possum, raccoon and crow communities with connections beyond that. He speaks all the languages, knows all the customs. He can hide and operate from anywhere.
Now that he's at large, his network has reactivated. And Entergy's could go down at any moment.
On the other hand, that's not too different from the every status quo anyway, is it?
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