Beggar Threatens Raccoon to Get Cash

A man arrested last month for allegedly holding a goose hostage during a robbery was arrested again, this time on charges of threatening a raccoon, police said. Peter Lerat, 33, was taken into custody Sunday after allegedly threatening to hit a 2-month-old raccoon on the head with a rock if Toronto pedestrians did not give him money, police said. Lerat had previously been arrested after he allegedly walked into a Toronto doughnut shop carrying a Canada goose and threatened to break its neck unless someone gave him cash. The bandit let the goose go after a customer handed him money.