Now here’s something you don’t see every day.
A raccoon recently made a daring escape from a moving dumpster truck on a highway near Milwaukee.
A video, caught by Wyatt Sanders and his co-worker, shows the raccoon frantically scurrying around the edge of the truck before leaping onto the highway.
Sanders told USA TODAY in an email the two were driving back to their workplace on June 5 when they “noticed something moving around at the top” of the truck. He said he then saw the animal’s tail and face, noting it was “very frantic running to all edges of the dumpster.”
“My coworker started recording and the little guy looked a couple last times before jumping off the truck going around 50 mph,” Sanders said. “I had to slam on the brakes to not hit him.”
Thankfully, the raccoon was okay after its leap of faith.
After the jump, the video shows the animal rolling several times — likely ending up on the highway’s green belt.
Saman Shafiq of USA TODAY contributed to this report.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Watch a raccoon jump off a moving truck and roll onto Milwaukee highway
Reporting by Cailey Gleeson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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