An uninvited guest literally crashed the party when a raccoon fell through the roof of a packed dining hall on the LSU campus!
Students screamed, and a chef tried to catch the masked intruder in a basket!
Freshman Danielle Gipson told The Reveille student newspaper that everyone was standing up and looking around for a raccoon when she went into the 459 Dining Hall for dinner that day.
“I went and still got my food because I thought that it was fake,” she said. “The raccoon then ran underneath my table, and I immediately got on top of the chair.”
One video posted of the incident showed the raccoon running between tables, then climbing onto a chair and looking around. Another shows people chasing it with a broom and a stick or perhaps two brooms. Screams are all that can be heard on either.
Gipson says she lost her appetite when friends told her the raccoon had been on top of her bag while she was gone.
“I am just scared that my bag has a disease,” she said. “Right now, it’s funny to look back at, but at the moment, I was traumatized. My appetite is definitely gone.”
One of her friends, freshman Hannah Accius, said students got the raccoon into an area where it couldn’t run out.
“The raccoon was making its way toward me. It stopped and climbed onto my friend Danielle’s bag. Animal Control finally came and tried to catch it in a trash can. A cook even tried to use a basket to catch it. It was a mess,” she said.
Eventually, she said, it was caught.
Despite the way the raccoon evaded capture, scrambling like a running back, there has been no talk of changing the legendary LSU mascot from the Tigers to the Racoons.
Please do not refer to an animal as ” it.” They are living beings with feelings. The hysterical female probably will not get a disease as the raccoon sat on her bag. Unlike people animals usually will not attack unprovoked. There was no need for panic. I hope that the raccoon is safe.
Carol, thank you for your thoughtful comment about animals. Wish people would think that way about animals.
I agree. I have a huge family of raccoons that come in every evening to feed. They have feelings. They have survival instincts. If they are hungry. ….feed them. They harm no one only if you abuse or harm them. They have a right to live just like us.
Ignorant people just don’t get it!!!!
Oh, how cool. You must live in the country
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Carol, your comment about animals is true and very thoughtful.c
Them raccoons are cleaner than most people, they wash their hands all the time, and are much more polite.Poor thing was hungry and looking for a snack, and u all terrorize the poor creature. How would u like a bunch of crazies, chasing and attacking u, for just looking for something to eat. Grow up, and quit being such snowflakes, save the raccoon.
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The animal should have been tested for rabies. I f the test was negative, then it should have been released in the wild. If the test was positive, anyone in contact with it will need rabies shots, a series of 4 shots in the upper arm plus one at the site of contact. The old series of 20 painful shots in the abdomen is obsolete.
SOUNDS LIKE LSU NEEDS A CLASS ON RACCOONS ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE THEIR ACTIONS TALK ABOUT MAKE A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLE HILL