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A lawyer has been branded “disgusting” and “despicable” after he chased a raccoon off his boat 20 miles out at sea, leaving it to a near certain death.
Thomas Cope, from Florida, posted a video to his Facebook page which showed his cruel attempts to scare the terrified "trash panda" off his yacht.
The creature had apparently stowed itself away underneath the deck before reemerging during the boat journey on the Gulf of Mexico, near Clearwater.
In the video, the lawyer shouts at it to “Get off my f------ boat" and says "We're just going to have to push him off.”