U.S. Park Police officer shoots himself in foot after being attacked by raccoon in D.C.

wjla.com ^ | Nov. 3, 2016 | Q MCCRAY

[COBOL2Java]

"What the hell do you expect? You humans are lousy shots!"

[Clay Moore]

Some years ago I am out deer hunting and walking out in the star light. Something begins growling and charges me from across an open field. I cannot tell how big it is or how far away it was due to lack of reference points.

About 7 yds out I yell at it and am able identify it as a coon. It turns around and runs off so I made a derogatory comment about it's lack of bravery. (^;

It turned around and charged again, I yelled again, but it kept coming. I drew my hunting pistol, drew the hammer, and dropped it on the safety pin. The juvenile coon was now still running at me and was at my feet. I drop kicked it and it left.

[Viking2002]

'Was the raccoon armed and dangerous?'

Well, since you brought it up...............yes.

[Viking2002]

Hey! You stole that!

[Flick Lives]

The raccoon was armed!

[Mat_Helm]

[EBH]

yep...most likely

[COBOL2Java]

Great minds think alike... :-)

[W.]

Always carry three extra magazines or speedloaders. Otherwise, plinking just ain’t no fun...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

He couldn’t identify his attacker as it was wearing a mask like with this video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTcjzaqL0pE

[bgill]

The neighbors heard nine shots. There's a reason Barney was allowed only one bullet kept safely in his pocket.

[conductor john]

Once a raccoon jumped and attacked me. Good thing I had a carhardt
on. I was hiding behind a tree, trying to catch kids who were doing donuts on my lawn. Never again!

[fella]

Sounds like a Jerry Clower routine to me.

[fella]

"I’ve never hunted, but I did recently buy some books for reference about hunting and butchering. One can never be too prepared."

Reading a book ain't nothing like doing it.

[redfreedom]

Raccoons are typically afraid of humans, unless this DC one is somewhat tame. Nonetheless, they can be extremely viscous, downright nasty and scary. I can see why this clown wanted to shoot it. But 9 shots at this close of a range?

[Charles Martel]

Sounds like a Jerry Clower routine to me.

"Just shoot up in here amongst us; ONE of us has got to have some relief!"

[fella]

We sure could use a Jerry Clower now a days.

[fini]

We can laugh about this, but raccoons are incredibly strong and can be extremely mean. I used to coon hunt and saw some coons tear up dogs. I watched a 15 lb coon soundly beat a 120 lb coon dog, to a degree that the dog never tracked coons again. The owner had to make the dog a deer dog; which reduced the dogs monetary value by about 2/3s. If a coon started actively fighting me, I would start shooting and only stop when I ran out of bullets.

[Yaelle]

He is clearly too ashamed to admit the raccoon got his gun and shot him. I don’t blame him. Those varmints are big.

[Yaelle]

They killed our beautiful cat once. He was the dumbest cat we had at the time. There was a water dish on the porch and the other cats just let all the wild animals eat out of it. He tried to defend his stupid water dish.