For the second time in as many weeks a pair of bandits has broken into a local GNC store and police and passersby were baffled to learn that the intruders were of the 4-legged kind.
Police were called to the vitamin supplement shop at 3453 Jerome Ave. along the Jerome-Gun Hill Business Improvement District at 9 a.m. on Sept. 29, for an “animal incident,” involving raccoons. A dispatcher quickly reported it had “one in custody.”
The four officers met the employee, who watched as the pair of furry creatures scurried about the store’s counter-tops and shelves in a search for food.
Asked how the raccoons got in, the employee pointed to the building insulation hanging out of the gaping hole in the drop-ceiling.
The unidentified employee revealed, “The same thing happened last week and we caught two of them.” This begged the question: how did they get onto the roof of a one-story commercial building in the first place?
The street in front of the store now packed with spectators, many snapping pictures as a trapper places a cage in the store. One police officer joked, “Maybe we can charge them with breaking and entering.”
One customer who wanted to get vitamins before boarding a plane to Africa, was forced to visit another store on Fordham Road as the GNC remained closed the entire day.
The trapper was expected to return Friday, when the clean-up and repair of the ceiling could begin. The raccoons were not considered rabid.
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This is very scary to know that the Bronx is getting infected by all these racoons something had to be done. Where I live there a big tree and not to long ago I thought there was a cat cry but no my cats wasnted that racoon in the tree when I saw it it was bigger then my cats lord from now on my Windows will be close period…the raccoons are taking over the Bronx and the waterbugs.yike scary and terrible that these animals are walking around like nothing!!!something need to be done hope to here what going to be done for our community. This is why people clean after your mess stop littering that why parks and street have carbage cans to throw your dirty shit in not on the street or left in the benches of park .sad we can even sit in mushlo pkwy park becuase these animals are all over the park and Bronx someone help the Bronx!!!