Raccoon vs 8 yankee stadium employees

[Liberal_in_LA]

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Sorry, raccoon population of Tampa. If you want to see the Yankees in spring training, you’re

to have to buy tickets like everyone else.

On Sunday, while Yankees players were in the clubhouse for an MLBPA meeting, members of the grounds crew battled a feisty raccoon that climbed to the top of a net behind home plate.
Don’t worry. Despite that reaction from the media watching the standoff, the furry mammal was just fine.

The Daily News reported “the pesky little critter took off through the stands toward right field, prompting eight stadium workers to follow it in that direction. The raccoon moved back toward home plate and up into the upper level of seats, eventually escaping the ballpark without being caught.”

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/02/raccoon-yankees-spring-training-field
Raccoons are terrible, evil creatures that have no business being anywhere near humans. Seriously, look at that demon in the picture above. Horrific. Having said that, sending animals plummeting to what should be their death is not cool. Luckily, the raccoon that climbed to the top of the netting behind home plate at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa on Sunday survived after being knocked to the ground by a groundskeeper.

Jared Diamond, who covers the Yankees for The Wall Street Journal, managed to capture the ordeal on video. As you can see, the groundskeeper up in that cherry picker doesn’t seem to have any idea what he’s doing and at some point, if they really wanted the raccoon gone, somebody should have maybe called animal control.

After being violently jabbed with a pole and falling a considerable distance, everyone watching assumed the raccoon was dead.
Turns out those bastards are kind of hard to kill.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/282543/daring-raccoon-survives-attempted-murder-at-yankees-spring-training/

[Hotler]

1. Ahhhhh.... America, we kill everything. n/t

[meow2u3]

2. Healthy raccoons don't come out during the day

Those guy were wise to keep their distance trying to catch the coon. Raccoons that come out during the day are more likely than not rabid.

[lastlib]

7. My pet raccoon did.

He knew where his bread was buttered.......And he loved riding in the basket of a bicycle!

[meow2u3]

8. Correction: healthy WILD raccoons don't come out at daytime

[NV Whino]

3. Nasty little buggers

When the world ends, cockroaches and raccoons will be the survivors.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Twinkies...

...you forgot Twinkies...

[NV Whino]

5. True, that.

[Major Nikon]

6. I saw a squirrel jump off a 80' communications tower, then skamper off none the worse for wear