{"id":326045,"date":"2025-12-04T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326045\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:15:09","slug":"raccoon-goes-on-drunken-rampage-in-us-liquor-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326045\/","title":{"rendered":"Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in US liquor store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A thirsty raccoon broke into a liquor store in the US state of Virginia over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, had one too many and ended up in a heap on the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">On Saturday morning, local time, an employee at the store in Ashland found the furry suspect passed out in the bathroom at the end of his drunken escapade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;I personally like raccoons,&#8221; said Samantha Martin, an officer who works at the local animal control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;They are funny little critters. He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The aisle of a liquor store is covered in broken bottles, with jagged glass and liquid across the floor.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4c0917107a92b0e28ca1ecf289198202\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The suspect left a trail of broken glass and ended in a drunken heap on the floor. (Supplied: Samantha Martin\/Hanover County Protection)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Officer Martin said she took the raccoon back to the animal shelter, though she had her fair share of giggles along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Another day in the life of an animal control officer, I guess,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter commended Officer Martin for handling the break-in, and confirmed the raccoon had sobered up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury (other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices), he was safely released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is not the answer,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A thirsty raccoon broke into a liquor store in the US state of Virginia over the Thanksgiving Holiday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,182367,182997,182363,182360,128,4899,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-326045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-drunk-raccoon","11":"tag-funny-raccoon","12":"tag-liquor-store","13":"tag-raccoon","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-virginia","16":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}