Toronto police called to investigate raccoon break-and-enter

A frantic call to Toronto police Thursday morning after a home invasion of a different kind.

Two scared Beach residents escaped without a scratch after senior officers from 55 Division came to the rescue.

Two sergeants as well as other uniformed officers responded after a homeowner called to say raccoons were running around inside their house.

The homeownerstold CBC News they heard noises in the attic. They called a roofer who came out and boarded up a hole but the roofers action may have trapped a mother and two baby raccoons inside the roof.

After hearing a ruckus in the night the homeowners came out of a bedroom to find the water running in the kitchen sink and raccoons enjoying a buffet on the kitchen counter, courtesy of a fruit basket.

The couple locked themselves in a bedroom, called 911 and when police arrived they tossed them thekeys from the bedroom balcony.

Officers used a broom to scare the animals out of the house.

The mother raccoon was separated from her babies in the scramble, but she came back and rescued them just after sun up.