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Most people who’ve had their fair share of alcoholic beverages have ended up on the floor next to a toilet after a long night at some point. That’s also the fate that one raccoon in Virginia met after infiltrating a liquor store that it trashed while getting trashed.
Raccoons are omnivores that don’t really discriminate in their seemingly undying search for their next meal.
The ones that call largely remote areas of the wilderness home tend to subsist on fruits, vegetables, insects, and small animals, but the so-called “trash pandas” that live in populated areas are more than happy to paw through garbage and dig through dumpsters so they can chow down on stuff people have thrown away.
A study that was recently published suggested the raccoons that fall under that second umbrella are slowly but surely evolving into a domesticated species based on physical characteristics linked with animals that have become naturally less aggressive in order to increase the chances that people are more willing to provide them with an easy meal.
However, they can still be somewhat aggressive when it comes to the lengths they’re willing to go to try to fuel up, which was the case with one raccoon that gulped down some karma after breaking into a liquor store.
A raccoon was found passed out next to a toilet after wreaking havoc in a liquor store in Virginia
On Saturday, an employee at a state-run liquor store in Ashland, Virginia (a small town located just north of Richmond) arrived at work and was greeted by an aisle covered in broken glass and pools of booze spilled from bottles that had been knocked off the shelves.
It didn’t take long for them to find the culprit, as the animal control department in Hanover County shared a picture of the raccoon that was discovered passed out right next to the toilet in the bathroom it wandered into after the liquor kicked in.
The animal was transported to a shelter, and after being given a few hours to sleep it off, it was released back into the wild.
I am thrilled to be able to say this is not the first time a drunk raccoon made headlines this year; in September, a nurse in Kentucky used CPR to save another one that passed out in a dumpster that was home to some peaches that were used to make moonshine.