The indestructable demon-raccoon, True story! Options

[*mipadi*]

I was visiting a friend and his family yesterday (the same friend from this post, incidentally). He rents a home out in the countryside. He told me that his two kids (one is 3, the other is 1) was playing in the backyard with him the other day when he heard a rustling by some leaves. When he went to check it out, he found a badly wounded raccoon. It's leg was injured and it crawled out of the leaves, hissed at him and his kids, and starting gnawing on his leg.

My friend took his kids back to the house and called the PA Fish & Game Commission, who advised him to shoot the raccoon. My friend doesn't own a gun so he called a neighbor who has a .357 Magnum pistol to come and put the raccoon out of his misery.

When they went to find the raccoon, they found it standing on an embankment that encircles a small lake behind his property. From 8 or 10 yards away, the neighbor fired, hitting the raccoon in the neck or head. The raccoon fell off the embankment, and they heard the tell-tale splash of it hitting the water.

Upon going up to the embankment, they found the raccoon swimming away.

The neighbor took aim and fired again, hitting the raccoon in the head. The raccoon plunged underneath the water from the force of the bullet--then continued swimming away. It reached the other side of the lake and crawled up onto the embankment.

My friend and his neighbor circled the lake and found the raccoon lying on the ground, still alive. So the neighbor fired again, hitting it in the head. He and my friend went to get a shovel so they could pick it up and bury it (anyone living in a rural area knows how important it is to bury dead animals immediately).

When they moved to pick it up with the shover, the raccoon started attacking the shovel and trying to get at them.

By this time, the raccoon had been hit three times with a .357 Magnum round (a very powerful round) at close range, at least twice in the head. Half the raccon's face was gone. But it kept fighting!

The guy whacked it in the head with the shovel, picked it up, threw it about five yards, then hit it with the shovel again. He's a fairly big man and thus quite strong (he's found his man-strength, you might say). But even after all that, the raccoon was still breathing.

The guy fired again in the head and point-blank range. And this time, the raccoon appeared to stay dead. They quickly buried the animal.

Last time my friend checked, the hole had not been dug out from the inside. But with an animal like this demon-raccoon, it's probably too early to tell.

[starlette]

thats horrifying. I mean raccoons not the best creatures no, but still!! Thats like...cruel and unusual. I mean, let the thing alone. He must be psycho to come back after being shot. Poor little guy. I'm going to cry.

[*islandgirl4eva*]

ACK! Today I was watching Little House On The Prairie with my mother and there was a quasirabid raccoon on today's episode. Your story reminds me of that.

But beyond TV, that's so scary! That's the very reason why I don't like being near the bodies of dead animals. When I was a little girl I was playing in the woods when some of my friends found a dead field mouse. I went to investigate further when one of the boys picked it up and threw it at me. I've had a fear of dead animals ever since

[*mipadi*]

thats horrifying. I mean raccoons not the best creatures no, but still!! Thats like...cruel and unusual. I mean, let the thing alone. He must be psycho to come back after being shot. Poor little guy. I'm going to cry.

The animal was most likely rabid, and badly injured. It would probably be more cruel to let it live. Besides, it was a danger to itself, people, and other animals.

[*I Shot JFK*]

hrrm... nicki had a fish once that survived falling down the waste disposal unit in her sink.

i stuck my hand down there to save the little guy. worked, too.

i still feel bad for the racoon. i mean, best course of action and all that, but still, unfortunate.

[*StanleyThePanda*]

OMG, thats insane.
I wouldve shot it too.

haha omg, what if it dug out of the ground?!?
We should make a horror movie about raccoons like this hahahaha
jk

[xscore]

aww
poor thing.


i would be too chickenshit to try to kill it.

must have been a terrible feeling (for your friend**)..to have it bounce back up after shooting it numerous times... =0=;;;;

[xosteffanator]

whoa that's scary, i'd call animal control if i were you.

[Simba]

I think you made it worse if he was shot in the head so many times and still living.

[*mipadi*]

I think you made it worse if he was shot in the head so many times and still living.

Okay, first of all, everyone keeps using the pronoun "you" as though I were involved. Secondly, they didn't mean for it to continue living; it's expected that if you shoot a medium-sized rodent in the head with a .357 Magnum, it's going to be killed dead, as they say.

[Smoogrish]

OMG, thats insane.
I wouldve shot it too.

haha omg, what if it dug out of the ground?!?
We should make a horror movie about raccoons like this hahahaha
jk

Oh my. Now I'm scared a rabid raccoon demon is going to appear beside my bed and start gnawing on my leg in the middle of the night.

[AnnahhbeL]

I would'nt have killed it though..
poor thing. :(

[juliar]

Hey, people.

1. the raccoon was badly injured and attacking people and animals. and itself.
2. when animals are in bad pain, usually the best thing to do is to kill them.
3. usually, a gun will kill an animal.

btw, that's really creepy.

[KissMe2408]

It probably had a good reason to live, True love. ya know, and it just came out of the "Fire Swamp" and probably was attacked by an R.O.U.S and that's why it was injured. Of course, now it's dead and probably will stay that way unless you find Billy Crystal to give him a miracle pill covered in chocolate...

Yah, the Princess Bride was on TV this weekend...

lol, but yah I do feel kinda bad for this raccoon...

[marzipan]

poor raccoon.......well, at least it's out of its misery......i think....-looks around room for rabid raccoon-

[*nightmare4taki*]

That was a sad story, it bought tears to my eyes, but that Racoon must have been on some high powered drugs.

[talcumpowder]

I must tell my friend about this... He didn't believe me. About what you probably wouldn't wanna know.
Which brings me to this morning, I saw a large bird of prey. Not that has any bearing on this story whatsoever, but it was odd. We nearly ran it over because it was walking in the middle of he street. I live in LA, remember? I don't see wild animals very often.
Hey... Wait! When I was little (as in, like, 6 or 7) I told my dad I saw a raccoon. Well, I called it a wolf at first... But then I changed my mind and said it was a raccoon. He told me to go to bed... Two weeks later a raccoon was digging through our trash.
Wow, see? You get two pointless stories for the price of one!

[NatiMarie]

Wow...strong raccoon.

Kind of freaky.

[*mipadi*]

That was a sad story, it bought tears to my eyes, but that Racoon must have been on some high powered drugs.

Perhaps it got into some backwood hick's meth lab and was hopped up on speed.

[xoxoxx]

You're posts are too long.

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[misoshiru]

That's horrible!

I understand the fact that it was "injured" and "rabid", but as I stand against the death penalty, it extends to animals as well. haha. Then again, I eat meat; I confuse myself.

[EddieV]

This is why I'm a man of blades. Whatever you kill stays dead.

[Comik-knerd]

hmmm right now i don't feel like reading all that...but when i'm in the mood i'll come back and read it..

[*I Shot JFK*]

You're posts are too long.

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[EddieV]

You're posts are too long.

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[myPESTICIDE]

LOL that's so freakin funny.