Bill Hyde had a rough Tuesday night.  He and his wife thought an intruder was in their house.  Here’s the rest of the story from the Associated Press.  I’m diggin’ how police chased the “suspect” through the house.

DALLAS — The masked burglar turned out to be a raccoon — and it wasn’t fazed by a “tase.”

Police got a 911 call Tuesday night from an 85-year-old man who heard noises near his front door. Officers surrounded the house and soon realized their intruder was a raccoon — which by then had gone down the chimney and gotten inside the house.

With officers in pursuit, the raccoon took off through the house, ripping up blinds, pulling down drapes, knocking over a lamp and toppling a flowerpot. Finally, Officer Daniel Ek tried to let it out the back door — and that’s when the raccoon apparently turned threatening.

Ek used his Taser on the animal, but the raccoon ran up the chimney with the stun gun’s prongs in its back. An animal control officer tried unsuccessfully to flush it out with ammonia.

A neighbor helped secure the front of the fireplace to keep the raccoon from getting back in the house. The next morning, when the neighbor returned to put a cap on the chimney, the raccoon had escaped.

From The Associated Press

Photo by Michael Mulvey/Dallas Morning News