A raccoon dies, and the world seems a bit colder today
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In Toronto, authorities were slow to pick up a dead racoon. So people started creating a memorial to it, and created a hashtag on Twitter -- #deadraccoonTO -- to honor it.
Jason Wager got things started when he called animal control.
Someone placed a single red rose, and as the hours of neglect mounted, so did the size of the memorial to "Conrad."
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Night fell and candles were lit.
And then Conrad was picked up by a city worker, thrown in a plastic trash bag, and removed.
But his memory shall live on.
A Toronto city councillor summed up the mood of his city.
