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meaner than a junk yard mink i can't recall if i have posted about my next door neighbor's yard or not? i don't think i did, so i will just do a quick re-cap: i am on a major commercial thoroughfare, on my left there is a flourist and large brick tentament building. the owner is good people and i mostly get along with the tenants. on my right, east, there is a brick single family home-ish building that has long been converted to a business. they make ribbons there; like award ribbons that say '#1' or 'best grandma' and stuff. there is a guy that sits in one of the 'bedrooms' all day and staples ribbons on a big punch stapler. in the summer, he opens the window and i can see him. he always waves 'hello.' the problem is that this business is only open during the day. there is no real back yard to the building, or fence, it is just an open dirt lot. the building has a back porch, and under the porch there is a kind of open area crawl space. THAT is the problem. neighborhood bums have claimed the spot under the porch as a flop house. i don't know that there are really so many 'bums' here as drunks for the night, but last summer there was ALWAYS people sleeping under there. sometimes they are not sleeping. they are fighting or talking to themselves or reliveing themselves wherever they feel like it. this is the problem. last summer, there were 2 guys and a large living under there for weeks. i used to talk to them sometimes, they were ok guys. i was never worried about my property or safety, but i still did not like them living under there. i wondered where the was pooping too. i talked to the business owner about all of this, and he said "ok," and proceeded not to do anything about it. i put up a high fence so i can't see the yard anymore. throughout the winter, everytime i saw really big garbage items in the alley, i would put them under the porch in the crawl space after the business was closed. by this summer, the crawl space was too packed with junk for any human to crawl in there and sleep. I WIN! nana na boo boo. well, maybe not. the other night i was coming home late on my little 125 yahama and i startled some small animal in that 'yard.' i figured it was a rat, but it was not shaped quite right, it was too tall and too long. it looked up at me in my headlight and stood up on its hind legs. it was no rat. it showed its teeth and kind of hiss/growled a warning at me and i got a really good look at it. it seemed very angry that i disturbed it. it finished grissing at me and ran away into the junk pile under the porch. my first impression was that it was a sloth. i know that is crazy, but that is what came to mind. i googled sloth when i went in, and it did look a little like a sloth, but not quite. i googled every kind of local varmint i could think of, but none of them were quite right. it wasn't a possum, a muskrat, a river rat....etc. then i googled chicago native species and found weasles and minks. i thought weasle was more likely, and it sort of looked a little like some of the pictures i found. then i looked up mink, and that was it dead on. i know it is really wierd, but i read up on minks, and i guess they like junk piles to live in. they come in off the river, which is not that far from me, and they will burrow into large piles of junk in much the same way that beavers burrow in dams. they will dig in and stay as long as there is a food supply. i mentioned rats earlier, we also have a lot of stray cats. this is a major through street and a commercial area, there are 3 resteraunts on this block alone. there is PLENTY of food to be found around here. SO...i have a mink living next door. is that an indication of class? 
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