This masked bandit did not come to steal – he came biting.
A man from Kentucky who is known as “Cowboy Cody” released a terrified raccoon in a bar from revenge because he was rejected on Friday evening of the establishment, according to the police and a bartender who witnessed the incident.
The police arrested Jonathan Mason, 40, on a whole series of charges, including abuse after he had released a raccoon The Big Apple Grill and Bar In the city of Murray, According to a press release from the police.
“Apparently he had caught a raccoon earlier in the day on his farm and he had carried him with him,” a restaurant barman, Mary Hafner, told The Post.
“I am a bartender, so you know that I have seen crazy things in my time. But something like that.”
Mason, called “Cowboy Cody” by the locals, only lives on a nearby farm and has caused problems with local bars in the past, told employees to The Post.
Hafner, 37, who has been working at the Big Apple for five years, said that Mason was already drinking when she met him on Friday evening. The bar had previously forbidden him about a drunk mule incident.
Mason always liked her, Hafner said, and she thought she could convince him to leave without causing a scene.
“I came from the entire bar and asked him nice to leave,” said Hafner. “He said to me,” Oh, I see what it’s like, they sent a nice sight here to distract me. “
Mason initially helped without a complaint.
“First I was a big problem as a whew, I said,” she said.
But a little later he returned – armed with a raccoon, Hafner claimed.
She said the raccoon waddled the busy restaurant in Waggelde while customers watched confusion.
“It was more scared than anything,” she said about the raccoon. “It was pretty disturbing for him.”
Hafner told her colleague employees to let her treat the raccoon, but another employee did not listen and tried to grab the hairy devil at his tail. It bit him, she said, and he had to make shots from rabies.
A video shows the employee who crawled on the floor who sits behind the raccoon while he makes his way through tables and chairs.
The raccoon then bites the employee on his hand while the wild animal makes a screaming grab.
But Hafner was able to lure the critter on a chair where she wraps it in a towel and goes to the exit.
“I am not a city slicker,” said Hafner. “I am a girl in Kentucky. I had no problem catching him.”
The employee who was bitten had to get rabies shots, said Hafner.
This was not the first time that Mason was involved in an animal -related crime.
Last winter Mason was arrested twice for leading agents a wild, drunk chase Through city streets on a mule. Big Apple -employees had to call the police on Mason when he was reportedly Defeat the animal with a whip In the parking lot.
Mason led the police for a drunk chase on the mule on the night of December 7 and then did it again on December 9, according to the police.
Mason refused to leave his car when officers pulled him later that night after releasing the raccoon, the police said,
He would also not roll his windows so that the officers could interrogate him, according to the release.
Eventually the police placed him under arrest.
Mason was booked in the prison of Calloway County and is confronted with accusations of third -degree criminal violation, second -degree attack, opposition to arresting and absenteeism to maintain the insurance.
