Raccoon reaches the summit of Minnesota skyscraper after leading thousands on gripping climb
It had got stranded on a neighbouring building two days before likely while trying to raid pigeon nests
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un captivated the world on Tuesday morning with a historic summit that seemed to lower the prospect of a devastating global war. Not long after, a Minnesota raccoon captured some of the attention and seemed to raise the prospect of a collective national heart attack.
The masked animal did so by scaling a St Paul, Minnesota, skyscraper, riveting and terrifying legions of humans who followed online. By late Tuesday morning, the critter was spotted a few storeys up on a window ledge, its brownish body just a smudge on the building’s concrete and mottled stone exterior.
By lunchtime, Minnesota Public Radio reporter Tim Nelson tweeted, the raccoon had climbed 12 storeys up the UBS Tower – and things were getting stressful.
It had got stranded on a neighbouring building two days before, Nelson said, “likely on an errant mission to raid pigeon nests on the skyway”.
And it apparently decided that the only way to go was up.
