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.

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