Raccoon saves student's life

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• Subject: Raccoon saves student's life
• From: bostic@okeeffe.berkeley.edu (Keith Bostic)
• Date: Wed, 24 Oct 90 11:45:19 -0700

	ITHACA, N.Y. (UPI) -- A Cornell University student who slipped
from a trail and fell more than 75 feet into a gorge lived to tell the
story thanks to a raccoon.
	Lisa Nelson was walking on the wet Cascadilla Gorge trail that
separates the Ivy League school from Ithaca's Collegetown neighborhood
when she slipped Monday.
	Ithaca Police said the 20-year-old student plummeted more than
75 feet into the steep, rocky gorge, but suffered only a broken wrist
and other minor injuries after making a relatively cushy landing atop
a soft, plump raccoon.
	Police said they believe the raccoon saved the co-ed's life.
	Police Capt. David Barnes said rescue workers found the
student and the hapless raccoon laying side by side at the bottom of
the gorge.
	``She was on the bottom and there was an injured raccoon next
to her, '' he said.
	Nelson was reported in satisfactory condition Tuesday
afternoon at Tompkins County Hospital.
	The raccoon is recovering at a local animal shelter.

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