Raccoon gang attacks woman?

[CosmicCowboy]

http://www.wtsp.com/news/mostpop/sto...0&provider=top

Lakeland, Florida -- A Lakeland woman is recovering from serious injuries in the hospital after sheriff's investigators say she was "gang attacked" by five raccoons Saturday afternoon.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says 74-year-old Gretchen Whitted was trying to shoo the animals away from her front door when they suddenly attacked.

"When she fell down, they enveloped her," said Sheriff Judd in a news conference called Sunday to warn the public of the aggressive raccoons.

"She's literally bitten and scratched from face and the chest all the way down through the legs."

Raccoons are known to be aggressive when going after food, but the sheriff called Saturday's attack very unusual.

"Not in all my years in Florida have I known of a gang attack by raccoons on an individual," Sheriff Judd said.

Christy Steinmetz lives next door to Whitted and ran across the street when she heard her neighbor's screams.

"I've never seen anything like it," Steinmetz said of the attack and her neighbors deep wounds. "They were deep lacerations. You could see flesh."

Sheriff Judd called a news conference Sunday to warn parents in the Lakeland neighborhood about the potential danger.

"They've attacked once. If someone frightens them, will they attack again?" Judd asked.

Polk County Animal Control officers fanned out, placing traps across the neighborhood, in hopes of finding the raccoons involved.

"Even if we capture a lot of raccoons [Sunday night], we can't be sure they are our suspect raccoons," Sheriff Judd said.

[CavsSuperFan]

Don't have it in me to post what I thought this was about on an open forum....

[MiamiHeat]

http://static.pyzam.com/img/funnypics/4/samurai.jpg

[timvp]

Got damn coons.

[MiamiHeat]

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk274/RRS4/MySpace%20icons/funny-pictures-racoons.jpg

[MiamiHeat]

http://wannasmile.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/racoon.jpg

[Bartleby]

qLtRtWgyaI4

[tlongII]

fucking raccoons

[IronMexican]

I fucking hate coons. The nappy hair and everything.

[BlackSwordsMan]

it starts with a fox patrolling a house...

[CosmicCowboy]

it starts with a fox patrolling a house...

LOL

And it ends with bloody coon spatters hanging from the oak trees after I go cosmiccowboy on them...LOL

[Frenzy]

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk274/RRS4/MySpace%20icons/funny-pictures-racoons.jpg

:lol

[Sense]

Funny... I saw some racoon tracks at work on some piperacks... and then some coon shit.
Then as I was driving home... I saw two of them... roadkill.

EPIDEMIC!

[symple19]

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-raccoons-are-here-to-help-you.jpg

[mrsmaalox]

That's terrible! I have actually been accosted by a gang of those shiftless rascals. They were big. And hungry. And attracted to the corn on the cob on my plate. I beaned one with my gigantic mag light and he still took my corn. Nightmarish!

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

To quote Shoog's sig which quotes something else: "They're urban raccoons, and they're not afraid."

[CosmicCowboy]

That's terrible! I have actually been accosted by a gang of those shiftless rascals. They were big. And hungry. And attracted to the corn on the cob on my plate. I beaned one with my gigantic mag light and he still took my corn. Nightmarish!

:lmao

[I. Hustle]

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2006/09/raccoon.jpg = http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2009/3/12/128813513286304366.jpg

[koriwhat]

http://wannasmile.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/racoon.jpg

i fuckin' love this photo. :lmao

[marini martini]

Well thanks alot!!! Now I'm afraid to take a leak outside in the dark.:spless:

[I. Hustle]

Well thanks alot!!! Now I'm afraid to take a leak outside in the dark.:spless:

You should be. Those damn 'coons would claw away at your penis. Probably think it's a snake.

[angel_luv]

I hope nobody's cat gets into the traps they set out for the raccoons.

[CosmicCowboy]

Well thanks alot!!! Now I'm afraid to take a leak outside in the dark.:spless:

:lmao

That reminds me of a kegger we had in high school on a friends dads ranch. The septic system backed up and the ladies (there were like 300 people at this party) couldn't use the restroom inside...we set up a little screened area with sheets by a small rock pile behind the house for them to use...about an hour later one of the women came up to me and said there was something out by their restroom area making a loud rattling noise...I went out there with a flashlight and there was a very very wet and pissed off/pissed on 3 foot rattlesnake out there...:lol

[marini martini]

:lmao

That reminds me of a kegger we had in high school on a friends dads ranch. The septic system backed up and the ladies (there were like 300 people at this party) couldn't use the restroom inside...we set up a little screened area with sheets by a small rock pile behind the house for them to use...about an hour later one of the women came up to me and said there was something out by their restroom area making a loud rattling noise...I went out there with a flashlight and there was a very very wet and pissed off/pissed on 3 foot rattlesnake out there...:lol

Oh fvck, now you've gone and ruined the rest of my life. We've been living here in the boonies for almost 20 years, last night Mr. Martini & I went to our secret spot, to get way from the fam damily. Listening to XM, a few drinks, smoking some great cigars, watching the light show in the dark sky, waiting for the moon to show up. Well I like to think I'm a good ol redneck gal, never been afraid to take a whizz out side, but nooooooo!!! Now I gotta use a freaking flashlight!!!:(

Thanks Cowboy!:depressed


:lol

Shit!!! update: 10-8-09

The little bastids ate my carved pumpin center piece on my front porch, right by my bedroom window.:bang

[CosmicCowboy]

Oh fvck, now you've gone and ruined the rest of my life. We've been living here in the boonies for almost 20 years, last night Mr. Martini & I went to our secret spot, to get way from the fam damily. Listening to XM, a few drinks, smoking some great cigars, watching the light show in the dark sky, waiting for the moon to show up. Well I like to think I'm a good ol redneck gal, never been afraid to take a whizz out side, but nooooooo!!! Now I gotta use a freaking flashlight!!!:(

Thanks Cowboy!:depressed


:lol

Shit!!! update: 10-8-09

The little bastids ate my carved pumpin center piece on my front porch, right by my bedroom window.:bang

LOL...did I tell you the party was in Bulverde? :hat

[marini martini]

LOL...did I tell you the party was in Bulverde? :hat

Did I tell you I was there!:toast

:lmao