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Raccoons Are Ruining My Life / Trash and pulled off a near impossible feat least night (2 Viewers)

I've had a few run ins with raccoons over the years. Had a family living in the attic of this house we were renting.  There was no access to the attic as the dumb owner had closed it off.  Someone told me to put moth balls in there as they hate them.  I accomplished this by standing in the open window sill of our 2nd story bedroom window and throwing them like grenades through the open gable they were going in and out of.  Threw 3 boxes worth in there.  Important fact, my buddy is an idiot and I was a bigger idiot for listening to him.  That night it sounded like a bowling alley above our bed as the family of raccoons proceeded to play with the moth balls ALL ####### NIGHT LONG!! 

 
I've had a few run ins with raccoons over the years. Had a family living in the attic of this house we were renting.  There was no access to the attic as the dumb owner had closed it off.  Someone told me to put moth balls in there as they hate them.  I accomplished this by standing in the open window sill of our 2nd story bedroom window and throwing them like grenades through the open gable they were going in and out of.  Threw 3 boxes worth in there.  Important fact, my buddy is an idiot and I was a bigger idiot for listening to him.  That night it sounded like a bowling alley above our bed as the family of raccoons proceeded to play with the moth balls ALL ####### NIGHT LONG!! 
I had an issue with Raccoons under my deck, tossed some mothballs under there and they disappeared for months. :shrug:

 
I moved from Virginia to Rhode Island a month ago.

I have 2 trash cans, 2 recycling bins. Very clearly the first few nights I lived here, the raccoons could too easily get into the main can for some reason.

It appears they tip it over, reach in and pull out as much crap as possible and throw trash all over my yard.

They even managed to get into one of my trash cans that I put 2 bungee cords across the top of!  I threw that trash can out, the lid was warped, and even with the bungee cords wouldn't close completely. 

I decided to move the trash cans to be up against my house, figured, if they had no way to tip over the can, they had no chance to open it up and get it. I would surround the can by the 2 recycling bins and park parallel to the entire set up so it was really tough to get in there and manipulate a garbage can.

Exhibit A (My car and my house are right up against the garbage can) Not to scale.

It was VERY important this work. Why you might ask? My neighbors house is just a few feet away from me and they are outside every morning way earlier than I. Also, I decided to splurge a little a buy myself a Fleshlight being newly single. Not a flashlight, a Fleshlight and I needed to discard of the packaging into my trash. If my trash were strewn about my neighbors yard their kids would likely find a special treat this morning with a picture of some adult actresses' genital likeness staring right at them.

It didn't work. I knew last night it didn't work because my dog woke up at 2 am barking her head off. The neighbors kids had already caught the bus before I got out there this morning to survey the damage. I'm going to have to move already and I've only been here a month. There was my trash, fleshlight package all over my neighbors side yard.

Exhibit B - I decided to get a little more artistic with the garbage can so you could tell it was a circular can

The laws of physics simply do not exist for these raccoons. They managed to tip over my recycling bin which is not a huge feat. Somehow, push my garbage can with 3 heavy garbage bags in it out from being trapped between my car and house, ostensibly push it over and roll it all the way around my car, to the other side of it. 

This has to be a bear right? Or a human. Are raccoons strong enough and smart enough to pull this off? I have one more night until the trash collectors come. What do I do to keep these perverted rodents out of my trash?!?!?! I'm convinced at this point they could pull off the Lufthansa Heist all over again.
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