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RACCOON RAMPAGE: Animal Attacks Maywood Residents RACCOON RAMPAGE: Animal Attacks Maywood Residents
Raccoon Rampage: Animal Attacks Maywood Residents A raccoon who attacked several Maywood pedestrians was captured Thursday, local police said. The animal bit an 82-year-old man sitting on a lawn chair on his arm, finger and leg around 1:30 p.m., ABC7 reports. Children and adults in their backyard were chased by the crazed animal, before it jumped onto the back of a 72-year-old man doing yard work. He was left with cuts on his back. Responding officers made a futile attempt at tasering the raccoon as it clawed at the side of a house.  Other officers in a backyard near Desoto and Briarcliff avenues fired three rounds at the animal abo…

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by Cecilia Levine