WASHINGTON, USA – The suspect in a break-in at a liquor store in the US state of Virginia left a trail of broken glass and ended in a drunken heap on the floor.<\/p>\n
But the perpetrator of this booze-fueled rampage was released without charge into the wild after a few hours’ sleep to sober up.<\/p>\n
Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter reported Tuesday that a raccoon broke into the Ashland ABC Store over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
One of the shelter’s officers was called to the scene on Saturday morning and discovered the “suspect” had ransacked several shelves and passed out in the bathroom.<\/p>\n
Photos showed an aisle of the store littered with broken bottles, and the raccoon spread-eagled, face-down, beside the lavatory.<\/p>\n
“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,” the shelter said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
“A good drunk always passes out near the toilet,” joked one Facebook commenter, Tom Wright.<\/p>\n
Raccoons, known for their dexterous paws, are native to North America. They are nocturnal and often rifle through garbage and other places as they scavenge for food. \u2014 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, USA – The suspect in a break-in at a liquor store in the US state of Virginia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[11926,111,139,69,92272,147,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-167182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-liquor","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-raccoon","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}