A raccoon is stuck more than 200 feet up an office tower in Minnesota and onlookers are in a panic

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2018 has been a nail-biter of a year for daring rescues, from the Malian migrant who scaled an apartment building to save a child dangling from a railing to the happy ending for Gypsy, a Phoenix-area cat who got stuck at the top of a utility pole. Now there is another little guy in need of a hero: the MPR raccoon.

The Twin Cities-based raccoon "apparently got itself stranded on a ledge of the Town Square office building in downtown St. Paul," Minnesota Public Radio's Tim Nelson reports. It has been stuck now for two whole days:

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An attempt to rescue the raccoon, though, led to it fleeing — up the building.

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Onlookers, naturally, were in a panic:

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Hang in there, MPR raccoon! We're rooting for you. Jeva Lange

Update June 13: Early Wednesday morning the raccoon reached the roof of the 20-story tower, and MPR reports it has since been "safely trapped." Watch a video of the raccoon scaling the building and miraculously reaching the roof here.

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Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.