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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
Thu Dec 11, 2014, 06:13 PM Dec 2014

PETA blasts raccoon-killing Husker

LINCOLN, Neb. -- The president of an animal rights group wants Nebraska athletic director Shawn Eichorst to punish a football player for killing a raccoon that bit him during his attempt to take a picture of himself with the animal.

Jack Gangwish spotted the raccoon on the side of a road near Lincoln on Dec. 3 and stopped to take a selfie. When Gangwish approached, the raccoon bit him on the calf. Gangwish used a wrench from his truck to kill the raccoon.

In tweets that have since been deleted, Gangwish posted a picture of him with the raccoon and followed that up with a shot of a bite mark on his leg.

"Guys... I got bit by a raccoon... It just looked so soft and friendly I couldnt help it!" wrote Gangwish, a junior who is listed as a 6-foot-2, 260-pound defensive end.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/12015089/peta-blasts-raccoon-killing-nebraska-cornhuskers-player

Have to go with Peta on this...what an asshole.

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