Woman kills raccoon with her bare hands

A woman killed a raccoon with her bare hands Thursday when the animal attacked a young boy. Officials with Cheshire, Connecticut, animal control say the woman was walking in the woods around 11 a.m. with a group of children when the animal bit the 5-year-old son of a friend. She pulled the raccoon off the child, told the children to run home and strangled the animal, authorities said. "She had the presence of mind to choke it," animal control officer April Leiler told the Record-Journal of Meriden. "She is one tough lady."