Dec. 3 (UPI) — An animal control officer was summoned to a liquor store in Virginia where a raccoon had broken in, ransacked the shelves and passed out drunk in the bathroom.
Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter said on social media that an officer responded Saturday to a report of an animal break-in at the ABC store in Ashland.
The officer found the Black Friday break-in had been perpetrated by a raccoon that had “ransacked several shelves,” sampled multiple different varieties of liquor from broken bottles and then settled down to sleep it off on the floor of the store’s bathroom.
The raccoon’s “liquor-fueled rampage” came to an end when the officer “secured our masked bandit and transported him back to the shelter to sober up before questioning,” the post said.
The especially trashed trash panda was found to be uninjured, “other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices,” officials wrote.
The raccoon was released back into the wild after sobering up at the shelter.