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DeathMonkey [soylentnews.org] 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."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d35dmk/zombie-raccoons-are-traumatizing-youngstown-ohio-vgtrn [vice.com]

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