Nebraska Football Player Selfie With Raccoon…It Bites Him, He might have rabies

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The 21-year-old got out of his 2002 Chevy Duramax pickup truck and tried to take a photo with the animal using his cellphone, but the raccoon attacked, biting Gangwish in the calf.
“It was a raccoon selfie gone completely wrong,” Gangwish said Thursday evening, laughing.


Some pretty good tweets in the link:
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Something tells me this isn't the first time this has happened in the state of Nebraska.

Go Gophers!!
 


WTF?

Does he not know that raccoons and beavers are the bad-asses of the animal world? Only an idiot goes anywhere near either. Both will fight at a moment's notice.
 

If a wild racoon lets you get close enough to take a selfie there's something wrong with it. As a kid I saw a racoon that allowed me to approach it closely, when it didn't run off, I stopped and watched it, there was definitely something wrong with it. About a week later there was a newspaper article about a rabies outbreak in the local coon population. I sometime wonder about peoples understanding of the environment.
 



The coon should be happy a Nebraska player found him instead of a Wisconsin player.
 


Never a good idea.

Stearns County guy died a couple years ago after his dog bit him. Didn't go to the Dr. until someone told him to(~1 week), but it was too late.
 

This may explain Pelini's frothing at the mouth on the sideline.
 




Winnipegopher said:
WTF?

Does he not know that raccoons and beavers are the bad-asses of the animal world? Only an idiot goes anywhere near either. Both will fight at a moment's notice.
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True that. The city raccoons around the lakes in Minneapolis are downright terrifying. No fear of humans. I've come across them on the sidewalk eating some trash and they won't budge. Just look up at you and hiss and bare their teeth. Plus with the availability of garbage cans to plunder they get freakishly huge. I cross the street.
 

One year, my brother-in-law decided to store his pontoon boat by their lake front shed in one of those canvas/aluminum framed canopies.

The following early Spring he opened the canopy to check on his pontoon boat, and saw lots of leaves & trash in it. Upon inspection, he saw a family of raccoons had taken residents there over the winter.

They had shredded the vinyls seats to smitherings. He got angry and went after them with a paddle.

That was a mistake.

Those buggers high-tailed out of there so fast and promptly scaled the side of his two story house. Well, they manage to create a hole and got into his attic crawl space.

They got rid of them alright over $3,000.00 later for a trapper to catch them and for the cost to fix the pontoon.

They are quite destructive pests.

You'd think only Badgers players are dumb enough to mess with raccoons.
 

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