{"id":322991,"date":"2025-12-03T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322991\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:13:10","slug":"drunk-raccoon-found-passed-out-in-virginia-liquor-store-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322991\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk raccoon found passed out in Virginia liquor store | Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A liquor store employee in Virginia<\/a> was startled on Saturday to discover smashed whisky bottles on the floor of the shop and, upon entering the bathroom, an apparently drunk, sleeping and spread-eagled raccoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything,\u201d Samantha Martin, a local animal control officer, told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

The Hanover county animal protection and shelter confirmed the raccoon was drunk and said it had since become sober.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 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,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n

The aftermath of the raccoon\u2019s wild Friday night. Photograph: AP<\/p>\n

Raccoons have adapted to living in urban areas to such an extent that they are now showing physical changes<\/a> that resemble early signs of domestication, a recent study<\/a> found.<\/p>\n

Their snouts have become shorter than raccoons living in wild environments \u2013 a trait that domesticated animals tend to develop. Other traits are smaller teeth, curlier tails, smaller brains and floppier ears.<\/p>\n

Raccoons have proved remarkably successful at living alongside humans, in part because of their adaptability at surviving on human refuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWherever humans go, there is trash,\u201d Dr Raffaela Lesch, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, recently told the Guardian<\/a>. \u201cAnimals love our trash. It\u2019s an easy source of food. All they have to do is endure our presence, not be aggressive, and then they can feast on anything we throw away.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Toronto, Canada, raccoons have become so numerous that a popular T-shirt boasting \u201cToronto v Everybody\u201d has now been widely supplanted by one that now reads \u201cRaccoons v Toronto<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Alcohol consumption is abundant in the natural world, according to a recent study. It occurs in nearly every ecosystem, with most animals that eat sugary fruits and nectar likely to be regularly drinking it.<\/p>\n

A rampage by a feral pig that stole three six-packs<\/a> of beers in the DeGrey River rest area in Western Australia prompted warnings for campers to secure their food and alcohol. One camper said the pig drank all 18 beers, then got involved in an altercation with a cow.<\/p>\n

In Turkey, an obviously intoxicated brown bear cub<\/a> was rescued from a forest by people after eating \u201cmad honey\u201d, or deli bal in Turkish \u2013 a substance produced in small quantities by beekeepers in the Ka\u00e7kar mountains above the Black Sea, where rhododendrons produce a potent neurotoxin and the honey that bees produce from it can induce a mildly hallucinogenic or euphoric state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A liquor store employee in Virginia was startled on Saturday to discover smashed whisky bottles on the floor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-322991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}