An Undead Raccoon?

So there I was driving to KFC, that's one of my favorite places to eat when I'm house-sitting because there isn't one by where I live. Well I come to a car that was parked with it's lights on, it was dusk so you probably wouldn't have the lights on unless you were driving somewhere, because it wasn't quite dark enough that you would need it for any other reason. Well I see something in the road on my side of the road and I figured he stopped to let whatever animal it was cross. I saw what he was waiting for and I stopped too. It was a raccoon that was hunched over kind of like the way the Gollum was in Lord of the Rings. I flashed my lights hoping to startle it and have it run off. It didn't even budge, in fact I thought maybe it was dead or hurt so it couldn't move. But this wasn't the case as it would need every muscle in it's body to hunch itself over like that. The car on the other side of the street was flashing it's lights and started honking as well. He had a pretty clear shot to just drive off so I was kind of wondering why he wasn't doing anything. Well I got out of the car to shoo it away and the damn thing turns it's head very creepily. You know like real slow like monsters do in the movie. He then looks me square in the eyes with an evil stare and starts lurching toward me. It kind of looked like the way mountain lions lurch forward before they lunge after something. But this was a fucking raccoon so he must have some mountain lion sized nuts to try to attack me. Then in the back of my mind I remembered that there is some reason you don't want to get bit or scratched by a raccoon... What was it? Um... Oh yeah, because it could have rabies! Common symptoms of rabies, unusual behavior, hostile behavior, and agressive behavior... check, check, and check. And then I realized, he probably has rabies and he's totally going to attack me. OH SHIT! I rushed back in the car and the raccoon stops mid step and freezes. At first it looked like it was going to kill me but then it just froze like it totally forgot what it was doing. I then realized that the guy in the other car was warning me about a rabid raccoon. I talked with him and he was going to call animal control. Just to make sure nobody really freaks out, I found out later it was "distempered" (I honestly don't know if that means it's rabid or not; but that's what the animal control guy said). I just thought that was a creepy story worth sharing.