Even I've eaten coon when I was growing up in Michigan, and it was a roadkill coon to boot.... still warm and I'm sure JUST done kicking when I found it. I mounted it using my Northwestern School of Taxidermy lessons and had it on the table as we had a stew of it that my grandmother made(that woman could cook anything and make it good). My sister was chowing down and asked what the stew was and I told her. She looked at me, looked at the coon down there snarling at her, then ran outside and threw up.... I'm still laughing 40+ yrs later.
True story... you can't, or at least don't have to make stuff like that up...