City slicker? Racoons do, indeed, climb trees.LOL : ) I'm aware racoons climb trees. There are several families of racoons living in the elms in Central Park that occasionally hiss at me after dark if they think I'm coming too close to their trees.
I was merely questioning how this 'coon did the "impossible" by climbing trees with only one front paw.
Technically speaking, the raccoon still had two paws, just one stuck in a beer can, so she could still climb, but she probably made a racket doing it. *clink*, *clink*, *clink*!