Drunk raccoon passes out in bathroom after ransacking US liquor store

A VIRGINIA state-run liquor store was ransacked by a masked bandit on Friday evening, authorities said, leaving a trail of broken spirit bottles strewn across the shop floor.

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The heist began when the raccoon wiggled in through the ceiling of the Ashland store location of the Virginia ABC chain sometime between when the store closed Friday night and early Saturday morning, said Carol Mawyer, a Virginia ABC spokesperson.

The raccoon triggered a motion sensor. That alerted the security company, which notified the store manager. Since no humans were in the store, the manager left it alone until he came in to open up shop in the morning around 10 a.m., Mawyer said.

The furry burglar smashed 14 bottles of liquor totaling less than $250, Mawyer said. Because the raccoon was in a storage room in the back, it had access to a wide sampling. He rooted through the rum, scotch, moonshine, Canadian whiskey, vodka, peanut butter whiskey and selected a festive eggnog as a nightcap.

Security footage taken around 3.30am. Saturday shows the raccoon running through aisles, across shelves and boxes and generally "having a ball," Mawyer said.