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
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday April 05 2018, @06:17PM (1 child)
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
I see. I thought it was an excerpt from DeathMonkey's submission.