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'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town

posted by mrpg on Thursday April 05 2018, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-in-the-air dept.

DeathMonkey writes:

Local cops have responded to more than a dozen calls of raccoons acting "extremely strange."

[...] This March, residents of Youngstown, Ohio, began noticing something weird about their local raccoon population. The animals were coming out during the day and standing on their back legs, bearing their teeth and staggering around like extras in a George Romero movie, WKBN reports.

"[The raccoon] 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," Robert Coggeshall, who was walking his dogs when he spotted the raccoon in question, told WKBN. Eventually, the raccoon would shake itself out of the daze, rise back up to its hind legs, and stagger forward, before repeating the whole process over again. It was, to put it in Coggeshall's words, "extremely strange."

[...] No one is certain exactly what is causing the weird-ass behavior, but the Ohio Department of Natural Resources says the raccoons may be suffering from a disease called distemper, rather than rabies.

'Zombie Raccoons' Are Traumatizing an Ohio Town

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @02:05PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @02:05PM (#662924)

    The "-ass" part in "weird-ass" is overly colloquial and should have been omitted.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @03:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @03:13PM (#662954)

    Fuckin' bigot - you don't like colloquials? What did they ever do to you? What, you're better than all the rest of us?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @03:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @03:30PM (#662970)

    This should work better [xkcd.com]:

    No one is certain exactly what is causing the weird ass-behavior

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday April 05 2018, @06:17PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday April 05 2018, @06:17PM (#663032) Journal

    It's quoted from the article. We normally only alter spelling and grammar errors in blockquotes, or insert information that is missing because it was in previous paragraphs, etc.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @08:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @08:59PM (#663102)

      I see. I thought it was an excerpt from DeathMonkey's submission.