Park Police Officer Life-Flighted After Epic Trash Panda Battle
By Bob Owens
Rocket, they done you wrong.
A United States Park Police officer accidentally shot himself in the foot on Thursday while fending off a raccoon attack in Rock Creek Park, authorities said.
At around 12 p.m., the officer was attacked by the raccoon on Horse Stable Lane in Northwest Washington, the U.S. Park Police said in a statement, and shot himself while fighting the animal.
The officer was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and the raccoon was killed by another officer at the scene.
David Stout, a resident of the area, said he heard the shots and came out of his house to see what happened. He saw the injured officer on a stretcher flown away in a helicopter.
The raccoon, which was said to be rabid (or possibly the subject of genetically manipulation and cybernetic enhancements), was later picked up by animal control.
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In all seriousness, the officer appears to have panicked after encountering the apparently rabid procyon lotor and did not think about two key facts.
The first mistake he made was in shooting in a direction where he had his body as the backstop. That’s easily said, of course, when a fanged and clawed rabid beast isn’t attacking you. …Read the Rest
Source:: Bearing Arms
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