{"id":828,"date":"2025-12-05T15:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T15:10:59","slug":"raccoon-found-passed-out-in-liquor-store-after-drunken-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Raccoon found passed out in liquor store after drunken rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong class=\"published\"><span id=\"publishDate\" class=\"value-title\" title=\"2025-12-05\"\/>Friday, December 5, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"Z3988\" style=\"display:none\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rfr_id=rfr_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:User%3ADendodge&amp;rft_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:Raccoon_found_passed_out_in_liquor_store_after_drunken_rampage&amp;rft.atitle=Raccoon+found+passed+out+in+liquor+store+after+drunken+rampage&amp;rft.jtitle=Wikinews&amp;rft.date=2025-12-05&amp;rft.aucorp=Wikinews+contributors&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.rights=CC-BY+2.5&amp;rft.identifier=%2F%2Fen.wikinews.org%2Fwiki%2FRaccoon_found_passed_out_in_liquor_store_after_drunken_rampage&amp;rft.artnum=-\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"infobox noprint desktop-only\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right; width: 200px; background: #edf7ff; border: solid #666666 1px; padding: 0px; font-size: x-small; clear:right;\">\n<p>Related articles<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mw-halign-center\" typeof=\"mw:File\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/File:Scale_of_justice_2.svg\" class=\"mw-file-description\" title=\"Crime and law\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Crime and law\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0e\/Scale_of_justice_2.svg\/250px-Scale_of_justice_2.svg.png\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"173\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0e\/Scale_of_justice_2.svg\/330px-Scale_of_justice_2.svg.png 1.5x, https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0e\/Scale_of_justice_2.svg\/500px-Scale_of_justice_2.svg.png 2x\" data-file-width=\"204\" data-file-height=\"208\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Crime and law<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Collaborate!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On November 29, a liquor store employee in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashland,_Virginia\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Ashland, Virginia\">Ashland<\/a> was surprised to find many smashed bottles on the floor and their contents spilled through the store.\n<\/p>\n<p>The employee found a small <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/raccoon\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:raccoon\">raccoon<\/a><\/span> asleep in the bathroom. According to Samantha Martin, an officer with the local animal control, it had broken in through a ceiling tile while the store was closed and fallen onto the shelf where the scotch and whiskey were stored.\n<\/p>\n<p>Similar incidents have happened before. In 2013, a feral pig stole three six-packs of beer in a camping area near the <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/De_Grey_River\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:De Grey River\">De Grey River<\/a><\/span> in Australia. According to <i>The Guardian<\/i>, the incident prompted warnings for campers to lock up their food and drink after the feral pig&#8217;s rampage.\n<\/p>\n<p>Raccoons have adapted so well to urban areas that a recent study has found that they have started to show physical changes that resemble traits of domesticated animals. According to the study, their snouts have become shorter than those of raccoons living in more natural environments. They have also developed traits such as smaller teeth, floppier ears, curlier tails, and reduced brain size.\n<\/p>\n<p>One reason raccoons have become so abundant in urban areas is because they are successfully able to survive on human refuse. &#8220;Animals love our trash,&#8221; Dr. Raffaela Lesch, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, said recently. &#8220;It&#8217;s an easy source of food. All they have to do is endure our presence, not be aggressive, and then they can feast on anything we throw away.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I personally like raccoons,&#8221; said Martin, the local animal control officer. &#8220;They are funny little critters. He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything.&#8221; She took the raccoon to the local animal shelter, where staff confirmed it was drunk. &#8220;Another day in the life of an animal control officer, I guess,&#8221; she joked.\n<\/p>\n<p>The shelter&#8217;s staff commended Martin for being able to handle the break-in, and were able to confirm that the raccoon had become sober. &#8220;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,&#8221; the shelter&#8217;s staff said.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nParsed by mw&#8208;web.codfw.main&#8208;c6c4f4c4&#8208;pgtcw\nCached time: 20251205150810\nCache expiry: 604800\nReduced expiry: true\nComplications: [vary&#8208;revision&#8208;sha1]\nCPU time usage: 0.211 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.292 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 1276\/1000000\nRevision size: 3477\/2097152 bytes\nPost&#8208;expand include size: 30269\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 13231\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 23\/100\nExpensive parser function count: 6\/500\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0\/20\nUnstrip post&#8208;expand size: 4427\/5000000 bytes\nLua time usage: 0.064\/10.000 seconds\nLua memory usage: 1682965\/52428800 bytes\nNumber of Wikibase entities loaded: 0\/500\n--><br \/>\n<!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%  246.182      1 -total\n 61.77%  152.061      1 Template:Crime_and_law\n 60.70%  149.433      2 Template:Infobox\n 59.26%  145.877      1 Template:Infobox\/p1\n 57.91%  142.568      1 Template:Infobox\/p2\n 54.15%  133.308     15 Template:Evalx\n 43.27%  106.519     14 Template:Infobox\/lookup\n 24.17%   59.490      1 Template:InfoboxStart\n 18.59%   45.757      1 Template:Publish\n 17.23%   42.411      1 Template:Social_bookmarks\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwikinews:stable-pcache:3052237:|#|:idhash:canonical and timestamp 20251205150810 and revision id 4952899. 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