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A raccoon recently made waves in Virginia after it fell through the ceiling of a liquor store and passed out after getting drunk. A slightly more chaotic scene recently unfolded in Wisconsin, as a restaurant had to deal with an animal that crashed into its dining room and bit someone who was enjoying a meal.
Raccoons have a well-earned reputation for being mischievous creatures thanks to their tendency to go to great lengths in search of a meal.
The scavengers are commonly referred to as “trash pandas” due to their penchant for rummaging through rubbish in search of some food, and their tendency to be a bit too clever for their own good can result in the animals ending up at the center of some interesting situations.
That includes one raccoon that was given CPR after being discovered in a dumpster behind a distillery that makes moonshine earlier this year, and I feel like most people who’ve been on the internet at some point in the past couple of weeks are aware of the animal that went viral after it was found next to a toilet after ransacking a liquor store.
Both of those stories had happy endings, but sadly, the same can’t be said about an incident that unfolded at a restaurant in Wisconsin.
A raccoon had to be euthanized after falling through the ceiling of a restaurant in Wisconsin before biting someone
According to Fox6, Ristorante Brissago, an Italian eatery located at a resort in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, was serving up dinner on Sunday night when people in the restaurant had their meal interrupted by an unexpected guest: a raccoon that crashed through the ceiling and landed in the middle of the dining room.
The Walworth County Sheriff’s Office received a call around 7:30 PM and turned to an expert who owns a wildlife control company to assist after learning the raccoon had bitten a diner who unsuccessfully attempted to grab the “large and aggressive” animal, which was eventually cornered and trapped under a trash barrel.
The sheriff’s office released body cam footage that showed Matt Snorek, the aforementioned expert, working with police officers and firefighters to wrangle the raccoon that was placed in a cage and wheeled out of the restaurant.
The diner who was bitten was sent to the hospital for treatment, and the raccoon was euthanized before being sent to a lab for testing (the only way to determine if one has been infected with rabies is to examine its brain). However, the results have not been released as of this writing.