Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe TORONTO, April 10 (UPI) -- A Toronto raccoon has become a local and online celebrity for his tendency to cross neighborhood streets using power lines and telephone cables as high wires. Mavis Knight, who lives in the Danforth-area neighborhood inhabited by the daredevil raccoon, captured video footage of the creature April 3, the Toronto Star reported Wednesday. Advertisement "I thought if I tell my husband this is what I saw, he'll never believe me," Knight said. "I was a little worried about [the raccoon] but he seemed to be doing whatever he needed to do to get to the other side." "I was saying to my husband that I think he used to be a human being. It's unbelievable, you know," she said. The video was posted to YouTube by Peter Buban, a co-worker of Knight's husband. Knight said she was happy to help boost the public perception of raccoons. "It's been nice to talk about raccoons in a positive way," she said. "People always say bad things about raccoons and make you scared of them so it's nice to get some positivity for a creature that is always despised." Read More Toronto schools stink, raccoon infested Nosy raccoon won't do that again Raccoons remove locked recycling bin lids
