And you thought mice were bad! Terrifying moment ‘RADIANT’ ROCCOON tries to sneak into terrified NYC fashion student’s apartment through kitchen light
- A Brooklyn resident captured on video the terrifying moment a rabid raccoon tried to sneak into her apartment through a lamp.
- Yesenia Irisarri, a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, recently moved into a new apartment with three roommates.
- The homeowner responded around 7 a.m. and sent a handyman to fix loose fixtures that the raccoon was trying to break through.
- The next day, an animal control officer came to Irizarri’s apartment and set traps in the basement of the building, where the raccoon was eventually caught.
- Irizarri added that the animal control officer assumed the raccoon was rabid and raised the young in the basement before it was caught and removed.
A Brooklyn resident captured on video the terrifying moment a rabid raccoon tried to sneak into her apartment through a lamp.
Yesenia Irisarri, student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New Yorkrecently moved into a new apartment with three roommates, she told Pix 11.
However, the raccoon, fearful of being infected with rabies, has already taken root in the basement above the ceiling of their kitchen.
“I’m calling 911,” Irizarri is heard speaking in the video after a raccoon’s paw starts protruding from their kitchen light fixture, in a video taken back in November 2021.
“Can you send animal control or something?” she says to the dispatcher as her roommates scream and the raccoon continues to stick its paw menacingly out of the fixture.
– You can’t go to sleep. They’re like, ‘Go to bed and look at it in the morning’ and there’s no way (I’m going to sleep) with it (in the house).”
‘What are you doing?!’ she screams.
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In the photo: a raccoon’s paw sticks menacingly out of a kitchen lamp
The raccoon, whose paw is pictured above, made himself at home in the basement above the ceiling of their kitchen.
Pictured: Yesenia Irizarri, a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, recently moved into a new apartment with three roommates.
According to Irisarri, it was already after midnight when the raccoon made itself known about its unwanted presence, and the local animal control office had already closed.
According to Irizarri, the women called 911 and they answered but said they “didn’t even know what to do” and told the women to wait for the landlord to call them back in the morning.
In the meantime, the raccoon could be seen making a large crack in the light fixture, as if it were trying to get into Irizarri’s kitchen.
“We literally just waited and watched,” said Irizarri, who was alerted to the incident by the screams of her roommates.
“His arm just stuck out. At some point, we saw his ear, as if it was expanding the gap to get inside.
“No one slept that night,” she added.
“We huddled in our rooms. The scratching seemed to subside, but then started again a little later. It became more aggressive. We could hear the raccoon moving (in the ceiling above) in the living room, above the bedrooms.”
Eventually, Irisarry said the homeowner responded around 7 a.m., who sent a handyman to fix loose light fixtures that the raccoon was trying to break through.
The next day, an animal control officer came to Irizarri’s apartment and set traps in the basement of the building where the raccoon is said to have taken up residence, on the roof and on the fire escape.
Eventually, Irizarri and her roommates discovered some interesting facts about the apartment’s history and learned that they weren’t the first tenants to encounter the raccoon problem.
“Previous residents have returned home to raccoons in their living room,” Irizarri said.
Pix 11 reported that the building management put end caps on the chimneys to address the raccoon problem, however the end caps were eventually ripped off.
Another raccoon then made his way into the building through the chimney, which he climbed to gain access to the underground above the ceiling of their kitchen.
Irizarri added that the animal control officer made several comments suggesting the raccoon was rabid and reared in the basement before being caught and taken away.