From time to time we get some stories that are just so downright bizarre that they success infiltrate our news feed and you guessed it, we end up posting them. Take a moment to investigate the included tale of “zombie raccoons”…submitted for your approval…
From the News 27 web site outta Youngstown, OH:
“Youngstown police were busy this weekend fighting crime — and raccoons. Several scared homeowners called, saying the animals were in their yards, acting strangely. Police said it didn’t seem like rabies was the cause.
In the past couple of weeks, Youngstown police have responded to over a dozen of these raccoon calls — all of them with reports of the same strange, zombie-like behavior. The majority of the calls happened in the daytime, too, even though raccoons are nocturnal.
“I looked over there and got distracted because I saw a raccoon coming our way,” said Robert Coggeshall, whose playtime with his dogs was interrupted by a fiesty and sick raccoon last week.
He put the dogs back in the house but said the raccoon followed them to the door.
Once inside, the wildlife photographer grabbed his camera to document what he called “extremely strange behavior.”
“He would stand up on his hind legs, which I’ve never seen a raccoon do before, and he would show his teeth and then he would fall over backward and go into almost a comatose condition,” Coggeshall said.”
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