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Mandy sent us a message on Facebook. This is hilarious.

Remember the thing in the middle, we did a couple of episodes ago about the meat-thieving ravens.

Yes, the bird thieves.

At the Costco and Anchorage. Mandy writes and said,

I was listening to one of your more recent episodes the other day, you were doing the thing in the middle about Anchorage Costco with the thieving ravens that were stealing things out of people's carts.

I literally started cackling like a deranged hyena.

While driving to work, that's my Costco.

I can completely confirm that the Anchorage Costco ravens are constantly plotting and scheming.

That's amazing.

It's become a city-wide joke. It's not just Costco though. They steal and rummage everywhere.

I've seen so many hilarious raven moments here, but my most favorite to date is from eight or nine years ago.

I guess this has been going on for a while.

One day after working a makeup gig, I was exhausted and walking to my truck to load up and go home.

It was the end of summer, later in the evening, so this huge parking lot that I was in was almost completely empty.

There was a slight breeze, and it was the land of the midnight sun dusky at that point.

As I was loading my kit into the passenger side, I looked up, and I saw a raven perched on the corner of the tailgate of an old beat-up red pickup truck parked diagonally to me.

He was staring me down, which I couldn't have cared less about except that he was doing it with a red dumb-dumb sucker in his beak.

Fucking hilarious and eerily creepy as shit. I couldn't tell if he wanted to kick my ass or for me to pull up next to him and enjoy the breeze and a dumb-dumb on my own.

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