San Francisco Animal Care and Control officers are trying to find a person they believe performed an act of cruelty: lighting a wild raccoon on fire and burning it badly.
Security camera footage from a home in the Mission Terrace neighborhood early Friday morning shows a raccoon running around a hedge, pursued by a man. The raccoon backs away and then runs off with the man still in pursuit, leaning down toward the raccoon with a blow torch. The raccoon escapes before it’s clear if it was hurt and the man casually walks away.
The person who provided the video to Animal Care and Control also posted it on social media with a caption describing the man a “sadist” walking around “looking for animals to light on fire.”…