I call bs.
Raccoons are very crafty and nimble little beasts. They don’t have opposable thumbs and thus aren’t really able to go much beyond where they are - trash pickers of the universe - but they’re smart and figure out how to work with their situation.
They can be cute but seriously annoying, even leaving aside that rabies stuff. I was camping in New Hampshire once and awoke to find a raccoon methodically digging through my knapsack - I was using it as a pillow, so it was under my head but the coon was not bothered - as if he’d been trained to search people.
I shouted at him and he gave me a mean look and wandered off with no urgency.