At a Boy Scout summer camp around 50 years ago, some of the geniuses decided to trap the raccoon that raided our tents and got food out of closed boxes and cans.
They had zero success for most of the two weeks I was there.
Then, one night, they had a setup with a steel garbage can propped up, and a string to drop it onto the raccoon, and this time they did NOT fall asleep before he stole the bait.
You could hear that raccoon scream for MILES and it sounded like he was tearing his way out right THROUGH the steel sides!
(I never found out whether they let him out, or he tore his way out, -or whether he ate them all on the spot or just frightened them for life.)
I don't think anyone within earshot ever tried to trap a raccoon again!
