HeyBub wrote:

"[LAKELAND, Fla.] The search continues in Polk County for five
raccoons that viciously attacked a [75-year old] woman near the front
door of her Lakeland home Saturday."

Money quote:

"They're basically little bears on crack..."

http://www.thestarpress.com/article/...WS06/91006011/

The thing people need to remember about raccoons is the little *******s
don't back down. Just one of them was entirely prepared to go through me to
get to the cat food on our back porch (and I ain't exactly petite), so I can
see five of them being able to take someone to the ground. I was going to
whomp it with a shovel (figuring the Mossberg would just have aroused
law-enforcement interest) but my wife got it to go away by squirting it with
a water pistol--apparently getting wet was more objectionable than fighting
something ten times its size. Dames, always spoiling the fun.