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   From: cwn@cnn.com   
      
   A 75-year-old Virginia woman choked a rabid raccoon to death   
   Saturday after the animal attacked her while she was taking a   
   peaceful stroll inside a botanical garden.   
      
   Cas Overton, a tai chi instructor, was attacked in a wooded area   
   at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Henrico, Va., after the   
   raccoon emerged from what she believed to be a thicket of   
   bamboo. The animal grabbed a hold of her leg and refused to let   
   go, she said.   
      
   "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," Overton told The   
   Richmond Times-Dispatch. "You know, self-preservation kicks in,   
   and I guess a primitive part of my brain just went into   
   operation and that was it."   
      
   Overton told the paper that she managed to escape only after the   
   animal stopped moving. She was treated at an area hospital where   
   she took a series of rabies-prevention shots.   
      
   She called herself a "terrific animal-lover" who had few options   
   during the encounter. Officials at the gardens closed down the   
   path where Overton was attacked.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/03/11/virginia-woman-75-chokes-   
   rabid-raccoon-to-death-during-   
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