Raccoon Rescued From Perilous Perch Over Lakeshore
Posted September 7, 2007 12:00 pm.
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It was a moment fraught with tension as the morning rush zoomed by. The entire city watched breathlessly, as a matter of life and death unfolded in front of them. But it wasn’t some death defying act by a daredevil. And it had nothing to do with a firefighter rushing into a burning building.
Instead it was the fate of a single raccoon that had so many so riveted. The critter had managed to climb up a pole on the busy Don Roadway at the Lakeshore around 8am Friday and was caught on camera in his precarious perch by the BreakfastTelevision Live Eye.
So when he began to look a bit wobbly and appeared disoriented, as if he might fall off into the path of an oncoming car, everyone held their breath. Everyone, that is, but a rescue worker, who arrived, ascended the pole and grabbed the creature in a net, bringing it down to safety.
The raccoon wasn’t harmed in the making of this adventure, and was later set free in a safe place.
