#raccoon

#raccoon

There's an aggressive assault suspect on the loose in Watertown. It doesn't have any warrants, but it does have whiskers and a tail. Watertown Animal Control warned residents Tuesday to be on the lookout for a rogue raccoon in the area of 140 Arsenal St. The furry fiend allegedly lunged at a woman and bit her pants before being kicked and running away, the department said on Facebook.

A liquor store employee in Virginia was startled on Saturday to discover smashed whisky bottles on the floor of the shop and, upon entering the bathroom, an apparently drunk, sleeping and spread-eagled raccoon. He fell through one of the ceiling tiles and went on a full-blown rampage, drinking everything, Samantha Martin, an local animal control officer, told the Daily Mail. The Hanover county animal protection and shelter confirmed the raccoon was drunk and said it had since become sober.

An officer with Hanover County Animal Protection found the ransacker splooted out next to the toilet on Saturday morning, according to the agency's Facebook post. The officer then transported the trash panda - likely still too inebriated to plot an escape - to the shelter "to sober up before questioning," per the post. What they're saying: "After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury (other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices),"

A picture from the shelter shows the damage done to the store, while another picture shows the critter sound asleep on its belly, inches away from the toilet. 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, the shelter wrote on Facebook.

The incident began with a traffic stop that revealed a raccoon named Chewy in the driver’s seat, humorously holding a meth pipe.