In my area they are aggressive. I had to reshingle a part of the garage roof (and no, no food in there, they were looking for shelter) as they started digging into it at various points. Their feces have to be cleaned up with bleach. There are too many of them out there and you are just making up excuses as to why nothing should be done about the health and property damage hazard that they pose. In a perfect world I could work 20 hours a week on keeping them at bay. As a proactive homeowner, my legal avenues are expensive and/or ineffective. The only thing that could resolve the issue is a massive cull program. If half the money put into repairing the property damage that they caused got put into that, we'd have a heck of a lot less of a raccoon problem in this city. On my property, I should be allowed to implement the 5c a pop solution without facing thousands in fines.