Daily Digest Online

Animal control officers in Virginia were called to an unusual crime scene over the weekend: a raccoon found passed out in the bathroom of a liquor store after a night of breaking bottles and apparently drinking scotch. A Virginia liquor store had an unexpected visitor over the Thanksgiving weekend when a raccoon broke in and went on a solo drinking spree, leading to its eventual discovery—unconscious and hungover—on the bathroom floor. Staff at the Ashland ABC store arrived on Saturday to find smashed bottles and spilled alcohol, including scotch, pooled on the floor. The "masked bandit" had apparently fallen through a ceiling tile before embarking on what animal control officer Samantha Martin described as a "full-blown rampage, drinking everything." The raccoon was found passed out between a toilet and a trash can in the store's restroom. Officer Martin transported the disoriented animal to the Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelt...