{"id":345199,"date":"2025-12-12T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345199\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:03:07","slug":"viral-drunk-raccoon-is-serial-break-in-artist-who-struck-at-least-three-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345199\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral drunk raccoon is serial break-in artist who struck at least three buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This party animal won\u2019t quit!<\/p>\n<p>The drunk <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/02\/us-news\/very-intoxicated-raccoon-trashed-virginia-liquor-store-then-passed-out-face-first-in-the-bathroom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raccoon that went viral<\/a> for guzzling whiskey then passing out by a toilet at a Virginia liquor store is a serial offender who has broken into at least three buildings \u2014 and lived to tell the tail, er, tale.<\/p>\n<p>The half-cocked critter, who tickled America\u2019s funny bone last week,\u00a0has long been ransacking other businesses near the Ashland store in search of goodies, according to the cop who nabbed him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the first time he\u2019s been in one of the buildings,\u201d\u00a0 Animal Protection Officer Samantha Martin said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The drunk raccoon was set free after raiding the Ashland liquor store and passing out on Nov. 28. AP<\/p>\n<p>The drunk raccoon broke liquor bottles at the Ashland ABC Store. Hanover County Animal Protection \/ SWNS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the third break-in he\u2019s had. He was in the karate studio \u2014 I think he got into the DMV [and] ate some of their snacks one time,\u201d Martin said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c1zpybEbu2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the podcast Hear In Hanover<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The drunk-as-a-skunk furball spent the night sobering up and was released near the Ashland ABC Store, where he left a trail of broken whiskey and gin bottles on Black Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t relocate him, because that\u2019s a death sentence for raccoons,\u201d Martin said. \u201cBut somehow he knows how to get back in this building. He\u2019s a smart little critter!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The four-legged boozehound went viral last week, inspiring t-shirts, coffee mugs \u2014 and even signature cocktails such as the \u201cTrash Panda Old Fashioned\u201d and the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.virginia.gov\/products\/recipes\/all-recipes\/midnight-masked-gin-fizz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Midnight Masked Gin Fizz<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Animal Protection Officer Samantha Martin said the raccoon has broken into at least three buildings. hanovercountyva\/Youtube<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately,  Martin hopes it will be the blotto bandit\u2019s last burglary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope he learned his lesson,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I just say, \u2018Enjoy your life.\u2019 I think he\u2019s living his best life \u2014 and why not? Have a drink or two, especially on Black Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This party animal won\u2019t quit! The drunk raccoon that went viral for guzzling whiskey then passing out by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,121597,172612,79,194,172613,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-345199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-drunk","10":"tag-liquor","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-us-news","13":"tag-viral-classics","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}