Vice: In the days before online video, a long-bearded man dancing with his pet raccoon to Aretha Franklin on his porch in rural Tennessee would have gone unnoticed, just one weird blissful moment in a world full of them. But Mark “Coonrippy” Brown’s clip (above) of him dancing with his four-legged companion Gunshow has gone viral viral since he posted it in July 2012, racking up more than 1 million views on YouTube and attracting so much attention it was featured on The Tonight Show and Good Morning America, which are like YouTube for old people.
It got some not-so-welcome attention, however—according to Coonrippy, the video became so popular that the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) decided to step in and confiscate his raccoon, Rebekah, in late July. (By this time, Gunshow had gone on to that great hollow tree in the sky, but Coonrippy had a new raccoon pet.) Rebakah was taken to a wildlife rehabilitation center, even though arguably all she needed to be “rehabilitated” from was having a decent life as part of a family.
Tragic. No other way to put it. How could you live with yourself knowing that you deprived a man of his raccoons that he so lovingly takes care of? He fucking showers with them.
Whether it is his nickname "Coonrippy," his raccoon's name "Gunshow," his YouTube account name "SwampMusic12," the killer overalls, the deadly beard, or the giant generator placed squarely in the middle of the porch, this man is beautiful on so many levels. Suppressing dance moves like that places you at the top of my People To Kill list.
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