So cute

It's a shame the injuries weren't more severe.

I was riding my bike in Prospect Park about a month ago at night. Raccoon darted into the roadway and a guy riding next to me couldn't avoid it -- smashed into the thing. His front wheel collapsed and he flipped over his bike. The raccoon dashed back into the woods (seemingly unscathed); the rider survived -- sore, but no broken bones. The critters are out there!

Raccoons are awesome. Its like a cat, but bigger, and they eat things cats wouldn't dare, like vegetables and bread. Also they love to stand up on their hind legs and give you the "what you looking at son" look. I regularly see raccoons in Northeast Queens out at dusk, 9PM or 6PM. They are even smart enough to cross LIRR tracks on signal towers rather than walk across the third rail (saw 4 raccoons crossing ontop of one). They will starve all the stray cats and dogs of NYC to death.

Dude69, you may have thought yourself clever in using that completely transparent racist remark, but you're not. In fact, it was lazy and inappropriate.

There's a family that lives in my neighborhood, Gerritsen Beach. Take it easy, it's just a raccoon.

I propose banning the hipsters from Billyburg and relocating the racoon population there, and let the coons feast on their soy-based foodstuff. There HAS to be reprecussions for their rowdy and destructive Obama celebrations (hipsters' not the coons')!

I saw a big one climb a tree and eerily peer down at me last Saturday night...Lorimer/Leonard Streets.

while living in park slope I hung up some clothes to dry and the next day they were gone. I wasnt sure what or who took them until the next night my cats were loosing their shit because a huge raccoon was on the fire escape. I was on the 4th floor facing the inner gardens.

Saw a huge one on the southside of Lorimer in BK. My dog wanted to eat him, the fool. He probably would've gotten his ass kicked by the raccoon. Still curios though.

Hate to say it, but if he was brazenly walking around like that in public, he may have been poisoned. and out of his mind.

Fuck!

I had my encounters with them in Marine Park as well. Are they "the NYC rat" of the future.

dont call 311, the park depts drowns them alive.

The areas referenced are in FORT GREENE, not Clinton Hill.

this was probably the same raccoon i saw last night around midnight. it came out of the pratt campus and walked slowly across the street down to dekalb. and yeah, the damn thing is pretty fat.

What's the big deal? Everyone knows that whenever a plumber from Brooklyn touches a leaf, he turns into one of those and flies around.

He'll bite!

Do they eat the homeless?

He better gets relocated...either a mofo or a car will end his urban life.

I'm just waiting to see one of the idiot urbanites around here try to pet a raccoon like they do the deer on Fire Island. OMG, it's an animal! Let's touch it, there's definitely no way it has a disease or will bite us!