{"id":78935,"date":"2025-12-03T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78935\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:24:08","slug":"drunk-raccoon-found-passed-out-in-virginia-store-bathroom-after-ransacking-it-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78935\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk raccoon found passed out in Virginia store bathroom after ransacking it: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHLAND, Va. (WSET) \u2014 An unexpected suspect was found passed out in the bathroom after ransacking an ABC Store in Virginia, according to officials. <\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hcvaanimalprotection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter <\/a>said Officer Samantha Martin was dispatched to the Ashland ABC Store for a &#8220;very unusual call&#8221; early Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p>When Martin arrived, she found signs of a break-in: the shelves had been ransacked, and bottles were scattered all over the floor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The crime scene (Credit:{ }Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/76934d26-370e-4d61-b7c4-1cbc830a6b83-592276461_1155996146681143_4163101245992785861_n.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The crime scene (Credit:{ }Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter)<\/p>\n<p>Who was the suspect? <\/p>\n<p>A drunkenly passed-out raccoon, which was found in the store bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/crews-work-to-fix-water-main-break-in-downtown-lynchburg-10th-and-commerce-street-december-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crews repair water main break in downtown Lynchburg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martin then took the suspect back to the shelter to &#8220;sober up before questioning.&#8221; After a few hours of sleeping off the night before, the raccoon was cleared with no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>He was safely released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is not the answer,&#8221; the Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter said in the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHLAND, Va. (WSET) \u2014 An unexpected suspect was found passed out in the bathroom after ransacking an ABC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-78935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}