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Filed under: Just For Moms, Big Kids, Places To Go, Health & Safety: Babies
Again with the rabid animals attacking kids. And again, an unlikely hero saves the day. This time it was a raccoon attacking a 5-year-old boy as he walked in the woods of Chesire, Connecticut with a group of children. When the animal bit the boy, a woman who was accompanying the kids pulled it off the child and told the others kids to make a run for it. While they escaped, she single-handedly strangled the varmint and killed it good.
"She had the presence of mind to choke it," animal control officer April Leiler said. "She is one tough lady."
Animal control tested the carcass, which came back positive for rabies. The names of the victims of the rabid raccoon have not been released, but the woman and the boy are both undergoing treatment.
Hopefully, I will never have to find out how I would react in a similar situation. I would like to think that I would be brave and take charge of the safety of the kids like this woman did. But a part of me fears that instead, I would be screaming like a little girl and running away with the children.
"She had the presence of mind to choke it," animal control officer April Leiler said. "She is one tough lady."
Animal control tested the carcass, which came back positive for rabies. The names of the victims of the rabid raccoon have not been released, but the woman and the boy are both undergoing treatment.
Hopefully, I will never have to find out how I would react in a similar situation. I would like to think that I would be brave and take charge of the safety of the kids like this woman did. But a part of me fears that instead, I would be screaming like a little girl and running away with the children.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
8-11-2007 @ 3:42PM
nicolebarber said...Pretty neat what moms do in a rabid situation. Kind of reminds me of the crocodile wrestler just a raccoon wrestler.
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8-17-2007 @ 12:40PM
Kolbgil said...RABID RACOON
Now somewhere in the Cheshire woods of Connecticut
roamed a lone critter named Rabid Raccoon.
And one day this woman choked off his air supply.
Bulged-out Rabid's left eye.
Well Rabid didn't like that.
Said, "Shoot! I was gonna get that boy."
For one day, Rabid stalked a kiddie down,
feelin full of rabid gloom, a victim of a waxin' Moon.
Rabid Raccoon, met his sad, early doom,
just to fill up some space in Meriden's Record-Journal.
Rabid had come, equipped with his gums,
to bite off the leg of his rival.
His rival it seems, had broken his (well you know)
by squeezing vertebrae cervical C3.
The boy's chaperone yelled, "Kiddies, run home!"
And took Rabid in her little old handsies.
Now she and her hands, more strong than a man's,
effectively told Rabid to slow down.
Rabid sucked in, but he knew she would win.
He said, "Lady, I'm sorry. Can I get down?"
But this was said with his eyes, and she misread
it as lies, and Rabid collapsed in Connecticut.
Da-dada-dada-da-da, da, dada-dada-da-da, da
dada-dada-dada-da-da-DOO-DOO-DOODOO-DOOP-DOO! (repeat until hoarse)
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