I had a huge coon in my backyard the other morning, showed my daughter and said "do not ever try to go near one of them" then it walked toward my house as I started to shut my back door and changed direction and goin over the fence.
For this old hillbilly who ran a few coons behind black & Tan hounds this story does not surprise, a mother coon is one of the toughest fighters pound for pound in the world, but to get bit you do something wrong,wild animals are just that stay back remain safe.
To hear the sheriff down there speak he sounds as if he fighting an invasion, funny and sad.