I swear to you it was the size of a meduim sized dog.

So the other day I am packing my things. This is a Thursday night. I worked early Friday morning and then afterwards I was heading right over to my apartment complex to sign the lease. So I decided that I would be really smart and get a bunch of things loaded into the car so that after I signed the lease I would just start moving in. One less trip! So this is like midnight, and it is very quite in the aves. Which means any little noise I hear I am aware of and any movement I see I am very cautious of. Call me crazy but this is downtown SLC ... you have to be on your A game at all times. Soo I am packing a couple things in my car and I notice that that flood light is on at the back of my house, but I don't think anyone has moved in yet so this creeps me out a bit because there has to be a big movement for that thing to go off. So I decided to just go grab two more boxes from inside the house and put those in my car and be done. Well I get out there with my two boxes and there is this dog running towards the flood light.. so I stop and watch and I am thinking what the heck is this dog doing here. The it's tail hits the light and I realize this is no dog. It has a big bushy tail like a coyote. So I am standing there a little confused about what is going on and then it's tail hits the light and I see rings around it and it finally clicks that this is no dog or coyote. It's a raccoon. A raccoon on steroids! So this monster hits the light and then turns around and makes a b-line for me. Usually I am friendly towards animals, but not this one, I heard that raccoons are mean and I am not about to get rabies because I was stupid enough to try and befriend it. So I have about 4 yards to haul butt inside my house and shut the door. It was quite the experience. I sat on the floor and laughed for awhile because I am sure I looked crazy running with my arms full like an idiot to escape death. If I was brave I would have gone back out there and got a picture of the thing so I had proof . Sorry you just got to trust me on this one.