A rabid raccoon bit into this vegetarian’s thumb. So she drowned it in a nearby puddle.
Rachel Borch, a 21-year-old in Hope, Maine, went for a run in the woods near her home on June 3. She came back barefoot, bleeding and screaming after drowning a rabid raccoon who sunk its teeth into her hand.
Borch shared her harrowing story in great detail with the Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News, both accounts laden with grisly elements and incredible quotes from Borch.
“I’ve never killed an animal with my bare hands,” Borch told the Daily News. “I’m a vegetarian. It was self-defense.”
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