Racoons kept getting into our trash cans when we were there. One night, when we heard the cans rattling, my dh stepped out on the back step, aimed the camera toward the cans (it was pitch black, couldn't see a thing) and snapped off a picture of the little buggers. When we got home we had the roll of film developed and were quite surprised to see a skunk and not a racoon rifling through the trash.
My dh was one lucky man that night.