Passengers waiting at baggage claim at Toronto Pearson airport Friday afternoon discovered a baby raccoon peaking out from the ceiling tiles above the luggage carousels.
At Toronto Pearson Airport, we spotted this little fellow checking to see who had come off the flight from Edmonton. pic.twitter.com/m2nSdrxwXt
— Cameron Graham (@camerongraham) May 6, 2017
Much speculation abounded including whether the raccoon — who was in the ceiling at domestic baggage claim — might need to be deported. (Sorry, this is Canada not the States.) And someone noted that raccoons have run rampant in Toronto public transit.
a baby raccoon just casually hanging in the ceiling at Pearson airport welcoming passengers!! 😭 @CP24 @CityNews @CBC @ajplus pic.twitter.com/cOZ5TictV1
— LA (@luulayy) May 6, 2017
The airport, though, welcomed the raccoon.
He was caught and removed from the airport, I’d like to think he was taken somewhere to frolic and play where he’d be well fed. But that’s probably just wishful thinking.
(HT: Paul H.)
Umm, “peaking”?
Too bad it was YYZ and not YTZ (Toronto’s downtown airport), where Porter Airlines is based, because their mascot is a raccoon.
And as any attention-hungry Millenial knows, you haven’t made it until you’ve got your own Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/yyzraccoon