The point of this is to surprise your garbage man.
This device looks like a garbage can except that it has a false door on the back that an animal like a racoon, skunk, cat, rat or small dog can enter but not exit from.
It functions like a humane trap it lets the animal in but it cannot get out. Lured by food placed in a bowl at the bottom.
The animal remains until the lid is released.-- vfrackis, Nov 16 2009 garbagemen aren't high up on the list of people I want surprised in a nasty way. I think we partially covered this in a post on how to keep kids from knocking over the garbage for yoiks (which *are* rather high up on the list). [-]-- FlyingToaster, Nov 16 2009 But the spirit of the thing! It is the spirit of the thing that I appreciate.-- bungston, Nov 16 2009 /How would you imagine/...
They would FIGHT! Cue Star Trek fight music!
or an uneasy truce...
or maybe: they would find love?-- bungston, Nov 16 2009 random, halfbakery