Huge raccoon plunges off 20ft-high ledge of a Manhattan building as rescuers catch it in a tarpaulin (but where did it run off too?)

 

• The animal scaled the building around 100 Hudson Street in Tribeca, New York 
• Footage shows the raccoon falling from 20-foot ledge on to a tarp held up below 
• Group of rescuers had gathered to try and get the creature down on December 7 This is the bizarre moment a raccoon drops off a high ledge in Manhattan and is caught by people holding a tarpaulin on the sidewalk below.  

  The chunky animal had apparently scaled a building around 100 Hudson Street in Tribeca, New York, on December 7. 

  Footage shows the raccoon falling from the ledge 20 feet up the building and being caught, as one onlooker screams.

+4

+4

A rescuer scaled a column on the building on 100 Hudson Street in Tribeca, New York, and tried to help the animal down. A group had a tarpaulin waiting below on the street to catch it 

An NYPD officer can be seen next to the rescuers as they catch the animal - but the masked bandit makes a run for it and hides under a nearby coffee cart.One rescuer had climbed up and wedged themselves between two columns, trying to get the animal into a bin. 

Despite the rescuers' efforts to provide a soft landing, the raccoon hits the pavement as it landed in the tarpaulin. 

However, one of the crowd of people who had gathered to watch the rescue said the raccoon seemed unhurt.

It is unclear where the plucky animal ended up. 

The footage shows the raccoon run under a vehicle and the filmer claimed  it later hid in 'someone's car engine'.