When a Virginia liquor store employee showed up to work on Saturday, they were shocked to find shattered whiskey bottles strewn across the shop floor, shards of glass soaking in puddles of booze and an unlikely suspect: an intoxicated raccoon , splayed on its stomach in the bathroom.

Samantha Martin, an officer who works at the local animal control in Ashland, Va., having determined the U.S. Thanksgiving break-in was not the work of a human, said after falling through the ceiling, the little critter threw caution to the wind and drank itself silly, knocking bottles off the shelves before stumbling into a toilet stall and passing out.

Martin said she brought the raccoon to the animal shelter, noting she had her fair share of giggles along the way.

“Another day in the life of an animal

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