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Much like the creatures portrayed in Godzilla movies, there are some real beasts that won't succumb to conventional weaponry. They may even live in your own backyard.

Dallas police recently found this out when they unsuccessfully attempted to taser an agitated raccoon. The fuzz were responding to a suspected burglary at the home of an elderly couple, but when officers arrived with guns drawn at the scene, they discovered the "suspect" was actually a varmint who had entered the home through the chimney.

Police chased the raccoon as it tore through the house, damaging furniture and drapery. The perp eventually turned on pursuing Officer Daniel Ek. "While unlocking the back door, the suspect ran at Officer Ek," the police report says. But when Ek placed the prongs of his taser on the "suspect," it had no effect and the animal fled up chimney. By the next morning, animal control determined that the raccoon had escaped the scene without capture.

Question Raised: Rocky Raccoon is a worthy adversary, but if Texas police were properly outfitted with cattle prods (as we assumed they were), could they have foiled his escape?