Sheriff describes raccoon "gang attack" on Lakeland woman

[uscitizen]

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Sheriff describes raccoon "gang attack" on Lakeland woman
Beau Zimmer 6 hrs ago


Lakeland, Florida -- A Lakeland woman is recovering from serious injuries in the hospital after sheriff's investigators say she was "gang attacked" by five raccoons Saturday afternoon.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says 74-year-old Gretchen Whitted was trying to shoo the animals away from her front door when they suddenly attacked.

"When she fell down, they enveloped her," said Sheriff Judd in a news conference called Sunday to warn the public of the aggressive raccoons.

"She's literally bitten and scratched from face and the chest all the way down through the legs."

 

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http://www.wtsp.com/news/mostpop/story.aspx?storyid=114730&provider=top#
Sheriff describes raccoon "gang attack" on Lakeland woman
Beau Zimmer 6 hrs ago


Lakeland, Florida -- A Lakeland woman is recovering from serious injuries in the hospital after sheriff's investigators say she was "gang attacked" by five raccoons Saturday afternoon.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says 74-year-old Gretchen Whitted was trying to shoo the animals away from her front door when they suddenly attacked.

"When she fell down, they enveloped her," said Sheriff Judd in a news conference called Sunday to warn the public of the aggressive raccoons.

"She's literally bitten and scratched from face and the chest all the way down through the legs."

Raccoons are no joke. I usually sit around at night with a air rifle waiting for them in the spring time because they are such a problem.

 

[Thorn]

I wonder if she had made a practice of feeding them. This said it happened at her front door, didn't it, so it's unlikely that it was a garbage site they were used to raiding.

Poor lady, this must have been very traumatic for her.

 

[uscitizen]

I wonder if she had made a practice of feeding them. This said it happened at her front door, didn't it, so it's unlikely that it was a garbage site they were used to raiding.

Poor lady, this must have been very traumatic for her.

My suspicion as well Thorn.
I knew fools in FL that fed gators in their backyards.