Raccoon Forces Student To Miss Homework

Don't blame Stephanie King's music teacher when she didn't believe the story that a raccoon was to blame for the girl's missing homework.

"I explained that the raccoon fell from the ceiling in my bathroom and it ran into my bedroom", the 13-year-old seventh grader said.

"Animal control came out to get it and they couldn't catch it and they said we couldn't go in my room".

Stephanie's grandmother vouched for her story with school officials. "I told them she can't get her homework, her books, because everything is locked in the bedroom", Natalie King said.

The female raccoon and its babies crashed to the Kings' bathroom floor. Before that moment, the family didn't know the roof was leaking, much less that a family of raccoons was living in their ceiling.

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