--- title: Skunk With Coke Can on Its Head Rescued in Harrowing Video description: One man proved that heroes do indeed walk among us by bravely saving a skunk whose head was stuck in a Coke can canonical: https://time.com/4508640/skunk-coke-can-head-rescue/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-26T21:40:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:01.718Z og:title: This Might Be the Most Terrifying Video You Watch All Day og:description: "Skunk, please don't spray me" og:url: https://time.com/4508640/skunk-coke-can-head-rescue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Might Be the Most Terrifying Video You Watch All Day twitter:description: "Skunk, please don't spray me" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Might Be the Most Terrifying Video You Watch All Day by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 26, 2016 9:40 PM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 26, 2016 9:40 PM UTC One man proved that heroes do indeed walk among us by bravely saving a skunk whose head was stuck in a Coke can. “Skunk, please don’t spray me,” the man [implored](https://youtu.be/9NoSSCmaHn4) as the animal ran around in circles trying to get unstuck near Orillia, Ontario, Canada. “I’m not going to hurt you.” The skunk stumbled around for about a minute until the man approached it, calmly asking the animal to not spray him. Eventually, the man got a hold of the can, which slid off the skunk after some forced wriggling. “Good boy,” the man said as the skunk sprinted away. The brave skunk rescuer [posted the video to Reddit ](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/54l0un/the%5Fbravest%5Fmoment%5Fof%5Fmy%5Flife%5Fthis%5Fmorning%5Fand%5Fi/)and called it “the bravest moment of my life.” Watch the rescue above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4508640/skunk-coke-can-head-rescue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4508640/skunk-coke-can-head-rescue/"},"headline":"This Might Be the Most Terrifying Video You Watch All Day","datePublished":"2016-09-26T21:40:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:01.718Z","description":"\"Skunk, please don't spray me\"","url":"https://time.com/4508640/skunk-coke-can-head-rescue/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4508640/skunk-coke-can-head-rescue/","name":"This Might Be the Most Terrifying Video You Watch All Day"}}]}] ```