{"id":182600,"date":"2025-12-13T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/182600\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T13:15:07","slug":"drunk-raccoon-behind-liquor-store-rampage-suspected-of-other-break-ins-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/182600\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk raccoon behind liquor store rampage suspected of other ‘break-ins’ | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A raccoon that passed out drunk after running amok in a Virginia liquor store is suspected of two other “break-ins”.<\/p>\n

Images of smashed bottles and the animal splayed out next to the toilet went viral last week<\/a> – but the woman who found him has revealed the raccoon has form.<\/p>\n

“This is not the first time he’s been in one of the buildings. This is the third break-in he’s had,” said animal protection officer Samantha Martin.<\/p>\n

“He was in the karate studio, I think he got into DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) – ate some of their snacks one time.”<\/p>\n

Ms Martin said the “smart little critter” had been removed both times from those businesses, which are in the same complex as the ABC liquor store in Ashland.<\/p>\n

“Each time we’d get him out – we don’t relocate him – that’s a death sentence for raccoons but somehow he knows how to get back in this building,” she told local podcast Hear in Hanover<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The comatose raccoon was scooped off the floor and put in a crate to “let him relax for a few hours” at the animal shelter – but was later set free.<\/p>\n

“Around one or two o’clock that afternoon he was picking his head up, he was looking good and I released him back out in the woods,” said Ms Martin – who confirmed the raccoon was male.<\/p>\n

Racoons are well known for foraging in bins – earning them the “trash panda” nickname – and the animal shelter has seized the moment by partnering with a firm to sell merchandise.<\/p>\n

“Trashed Panda” T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and stickers have already raised more than $180,000 (\u00a3135,000) to fund improvements at the animal shelter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A raccoon that passed out drunk after running amok in a Virginia liquor store is suspected of two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-182600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}