Hero Woman Strangles Rabid Raccoon with Her Bare Hands
LatestGive it up for Cas Overton, a 75-year-old woman from Henrico, VA, who was attacked by a rabid raccoon while walking through her local botanical garden and defended herself by strangling it to death with her bare hands. Grizzly Adams has nothing on Cas.
Overton was walking down one the more remote paths of the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden when the raccoon rushed out of the bamboo and attacked her leg.
“I tried to shake it off and realized how violent it was,” she told the Richmond Times Dispatch. “As I moved backward away from it, I grabbed its neck and I knew that I couldn’t get away from it. If I ran, it would be faster than I would and would just tear me to pieces.”