Florida woman attacked by 'gang' of raccoons

[Ian David]

LAKELAND, Fla. - A woman is recovering from serious injuries in the hospital after sheriff’s investigators say she was “gang attacked” by five raccoons over the weekend.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says 74-year-old Gretchen Whitted was trying to shoo the animals away from her front door Saturday 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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[xchrom]

1. the raccoons in my backyard LOVE to threaten me --

then i pitch a rock at them -- and that settles that.

[Ian David]

2. All we have is a groundhog, and he's so shy he runs away if he sees me in the window.

But once we had a raccoon in the yard and he was hanging outside right next to the door.

We scared the shit out of each other.

I opened the door, and he was hanging there, less than two feet from my head, hissing at me.

[xchrom]

5. lol -- i would like to have seen that!

i have raccoons because i compost -- we're always having run ins.

[Robb]

3. The GOP cut after-school programs for raccoons.

That's why they're joining gangs now.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. LOL! nt

[MuseRider]

4. I had one living in my garage

one winter. We had an understanding. I opened the door at night until I saw it was in then I closed it. I opened the door in the morning and it left. I could walk right by it and it left me alone as long as I did not stop and mess with it. The racoons here at the farm are another story entirely.