{"id":174362,"date":"2025-12-04T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/174362\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:12:10","slug":"drunken-raccoon-who-broke-into-us-liquor-store-found-passed-out-in-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/174362\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunken raccoon who broke into US liquor store found passed out in bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A masked burglar broke into a closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the scotch and whisky.<\/p>\n<p>The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed, a ceiling tile collapsed and alcohol pooled on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he is a raccoon.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday morning, an employee at the store found the trash panda passed out on the bathroom floor at the end of his drunken escapade.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"1024\" width=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/drunken-raccoon-who-broke-into-us-liquor-store-found-passed-out-in-bathroom.jpg\" alt=\"broken bottles are seen after a raccoon enters a liquor store\"\/>The trash panda left quite the mess after a boozy night (Samantha Martin\/Hanover County Protection via AP)\n<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Martin, an officer who works at the local animal control, said: \u201cI personally like raccoons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are funny little critters. He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms 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>The Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter commended Ms Martin for handling the break-in and confirmed the raccoon has since sobered up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury \u2013 other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices \u2013 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A masked burglar broke into a closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the scotch and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-174362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}