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10-24-08, 10:31 AM #1
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Raccoon unfazed by cop's Taser during wild chase
Raccoon unfazed by cop's Taser during wild chase
DALLAS — Police learned something during a frenetic burglary call to an elderly couple's home: Tasers don't work on raccoons. Police arrived with guns drawn after receiving a 911 call from an 85-year-old man who heard noises near his front door Tuesday night. Officers surrounded the house but pretty quickly — in the words of the police report — "determined the suspect was a raccoon."
In the meantime, the masked burglar apparently made its way into the house through the chimney. And that's when things got really interesting.
With officers in pursuit, the raccoon took off through the house, ripping up Venetian blinds, pulling down drapes, knocking over a lamp and toppling a flowerpot. Finally, Officer Daniel Ek tried to let it out the back door when the suspect apparently turned threatening.
"While unlocking the back door, the suspect ran at Officer Ek," the police report says.
Ek used his taser, but the raccoon ran up the chimney with the stun gun's prongs in its back. An animal control officer tried unsuccessfully to flush it out with ammonia, homeowner Bill Hyde said in Thursday's editions of The Dallas Morning News.
A neighbor helped secure the front of the fireplace to keep the raccoon from returning. The next morning, when the neighbor returned to put a cap on the chimney, the raccoon had escaped.
"He got away clean," Hyde said.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press
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10-24-08, 10:55 AM #2
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Damn raccoons. I almost smoked one in my car last night while on my way home...
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10-24-08, 12:40 PM #3
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It's good you hadn't--driving while smoking raccoons might count as DUI!
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Also I've heard you can't get as high while smoking raccoons as you can by smoking other rodents!
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10-24-08, 01:21 PM #4
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I generally prefer to smoke mine in a BBQ pit.
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10-24-08, 01:27 PM #5
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LOL yeah I guess I didn't exactly use the best choice of words there. I use the term "smoke" just like "hit" I guess... Originally Posted by Jenna
It's good you hadn't--driving while smoking raccoons might count as DUI! Also I've heard you can't get as high while smoking raccoons as you can by smoking other rodents! Calm Like A Bomb...
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10-24-08, 01:58 PM #6
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Raccoons commit a lot of larcenies from unattended garbage cans in my area.
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10-24-08, 09:10 PM #7
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"Masked burglar"
I wanted a pet raccoon as a child. I remember that I saw a box of them for sale when I was a kid for $50 each and I was so bummed that I didnt have $50. 
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10-25-08, 02:00 AM #8
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That racoon must be distant relation to Chuck Norris..he sounds MegaForce!
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10-25-08, 07:52 AM #9
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Originally Posted by Pinki
"Masked burglar" Originally Posted by vengeance05
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10-25-08, 08:39 AM #10
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god i cant believe the taser didnt work on the raccoon. I got tased at school the other day. Its hard to imagine anything being able to keep moving after that lol lol
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10-25-08, 08:50 AM #11
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LOL aww that's cute. Originally Posted by Jenna
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10-25-08, 03:50 PM #12
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You know the difference between a dead racoon in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? Originally Posted by 10-42Adam
There's skid marks before the racoon.
That which does not kill me, better start fucking running.
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10-25-08, 07:50 PM #13
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Originally Posted by 10-42Adam
Originally Posted by Jenna
It's good you hadn't--driving while smoking raccoons might count as DUI! Also I've heard you can't get as high while smoking raccoons as you can by smoking other rodents! Ah, I see......you took a hit off of a raccoon, huh? New smoking technique? Originally Posted by 10-42Adam
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