Cop in Maryland survives brutal groundhog attack

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deputy with the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office fatally shot a groundhog in Eldersburg on Sunday in an incident captured on video that has been widely shared on social media. The deputy stopped when he observed the groundhog acting oddly, department spokesman Cpl. Jon Light said. “It doesn’t appear that it had bitten anyone at that point,” Light said. It is unclear whether the groundhog was rabid, Light said.

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The deputy then got out of his vehicle, tried to direct the groundhog off the road and “realized that it was not responding as expected for an animal that was not being cornered or trapped. Believing the groundhog to be either sick or injured, the deputy then put the animal down for the public’s safety,”

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In 2014, Baltimore police shot and killed a 780-pound steer in the Mid-Town Belvedere after it escaped from a West Baltimore slaughterhouse.

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