Raccoon Headline

Some years ago, The Guardian ran a piece that looked at instances of bizarre, eye-catching headlines about animals, in local newspapers across the UK.  “‘Racist’ swans attack students”.  “Budgie’s death now being treated as suspicious”.  It noted how the headlines were mostly exaggerated. 

Well, I was reminded of that when I saw this headline on Sunday on The Guardian’s own website:

Toronto lockdown brings humans and raccoons together – neither's happy

It turned out to be a piece about possible reasons for a sharp increase in reports of people bitten and/or scratched by raccoons in Toronto in the past year.