Pack of raccoons mauls 74-year-old Florida woman

Animal control officers hope to trap a pack of raccoons that mauled a 74-year-old Florida woman who tried to chase them from her yard.

[Richard]

makes me glad I shot the one that got into my house,of corse it also killed my pet bird

[Mick]

It's peoples fault to a degree. Just like alligators idiots feed. "Oh, look at the cute Raccoon!" - boom, your looked at as a relation to food or considered a territorial threat.

[Stink]

look out the animal are going crazy!!!!

[Commander Bunny]

Stink wrote:

look out the animal are going crazy!!!!

No, We're doing about the same as usual, it's You Humans that are making Us nervous.

[Nanuck]

Looking forward to a little white stuff on the ground - make for some good wabbit huntin up here.

[Cool Breeze]

Gretchen, bathe often. Clean your house daily. Use a trash can with a tight sealing heavy lid. Don't feed animals that don't live inside your house.

[Beckys Johnson]

Coons?

[Commander Bunny]

Nanuck wrote:

Looking forward to a little white stuff on the ground - make for some good wabbit huntin up here.

You'll never catch me You pesky Eskimo.
But the snow that You Guys sent us this weekend was wonderfull, thanks!
It's all gone now, but the Pup has never seen the white stuff, and totally dug it.

[Jim]

Just as bad as that attack rabbit on Monte Python's Holy Grail. No mercy.

[BUDDY BOY]

Mental note to self: if I've got a bunch of wild animals outside my house, stay inside.

[Nobama]

I never really got to observe a raccoon up close, until recently. Up until then, I thought they were cute and relatively harmless as they went around tipping over garbage cans in the 'hood. Not so. They're nasty little suckers if they even remoteely feel provoked. I inadvertently left a bowl of dry cat food on the front porch for the neighbors cat, who is away and asked me to feed it. Its an outside cat. I forgot to bring the food in at sunset. The raccoons got it. My wife heard banging and thrashing on the porch and woke me up. I went to check it out, and when I hit the porch light, there were at least 5 of 'em - and they sure as hell weren't friendly. They spit, they hiss, they growl. Nah. I decided going onto the porch to retrieve the bowl would be a real foolish thing to do. At least as long as they were there.

[ballpienhammer]

'Coons belong with tree rats(squirrels): in the stewpot or 6 ft under!

[BUNDY]

The cops couldn't find the 5 raccoons cause the old lady said they all wore masks

[Jackie Bushman]

I'm glad I shot the one I saw with my bow on Saturday.