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TORONTO
Thursday, June 2, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
Man charged in raccoon attack
Stanley Cup. Game 1
Baby raccoon expected to recover from beating Suffered fractured toes, broken leg May be released back into same area
Vancouver Canucks defenceman Aaron Rome (29) battles Boston Bruins defenceman Zdeno Chara (33) to clear the puck during Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final last night in Vancouver. JULIE JACOBSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nail-biter of a start for fans Canuck fans jammed one of Vancouver’s main streets last night to watch the team face off against the Boston Bruins in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final. Vancouver won 1-0.
Piercing, terrible screams shook Roddy Muir out of his sleep at about 5:30 a.m. yesterday. “It sounded like a young child was being thrown around — and I could hear this banging and racket,” says Muir, 43, who lives on Campbell Avenue, near Bloor Street and Lansdowne Avenue. “I ran into the back of my yard,” said Muir, a voice actor. What he saw was a familiar sight. Last summer, behind his house, Muir saw a man attack raccoons with a pronged implement. In that incident, he says, he saw the man stab at raccoons on the ground and puncture them so they were screaming. He didn’t report the incident, hoping it wouldn’t happen again. But when he heard the screams again yesterday, he feared something similar was happening. Muir said he saw one baby raccoon cowering on the ground. A man swung a spade at another baby raccoon on a fence, knocking it to the ground and hitting it with
“It looked like she was looking for her baby … It tore my heart out.” NEIGHBOUR RODDY MUIR, DEMONSTRATING HOW A “TRIDENT” TOOL WAS USED TO HURT THE RACCOONS, SAID HE SAW THE MOTHER RACCOON COME BACK LATER YESTERDAY AFTER THE ATTACK
the shovel, he said. This time Muir intervened. “I said, ‘Why are you doing this?’” Muir recounted. “He (the man) swept his arm around and said ‘They’re destroying my garden.’” Muir said he told the man he
was going to call police. The dispatcher could hear the injured raccoon’s screams. Meanwhile, he said, the mother raccoon was nearby — he thinks she had three other babies with her. She came down to the injured, crying baby that had been hit with the spade and picked it up. “It was still alive but it was really smushed and flopping around and crying,” Muir said. A man was arrested after police arrived on the scene. Dong Nguyen, 53, of Rankin Crescent, whose backyard abuts Muir’s, has been charged with cruelty to animals and possessing a dangerous weapon. Don Westacott, 53, who lives several houses away, has known Nguyen for a number of years and has always found him pleasant. Nguyen is very devoted to his garden, Westacott said. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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