Railroad workers had to rescue a stricken male raccoon after it became frozen to one side of the tracks -- stuck fast -- by its private parts.<br /><br />The animal was seen facing the oncoming train carriage as it straddled one side of the track.<br /><br />Railroad worker Neil Mullis, 35, was out on the job when he came across the little guy.<br /><br />The traumatised-looking raccoon was eventually removed from the rail with hot water and a shovel.<br /><br />Neil, from Cochran, Georgia, USA, said: "I poured the warm water under his bottom while a co-worker worked the shovel under his butt to try and break him loose.<br /><br />"After about five minutes of slowly working him loose, he was free. He jumped off the rail and ran in the woods never looking back."<br /><br />Despite the intense rescue efforts from Neil and his colleagues, nobody could tell how, or why, the raccoon got into this predicament.<br /><br />Neil added: "I’m guessing because it was -12 degrees outside somehow he was crossing over the rail and sat too long and got stuck!"<br /><br />Clumps of fur were left still stuck to the rail after it managed to get loose as Neil is heard saying "operation well performed. Little fella is safe now."<br /><br />Neil estimated that at the time, temperatures plummeted to around -12 degrees Celsius.<br /><br />The incident was filmed on December 19, 2022.
