Employees at a liquor store in Virginia discovered a drunken raccoon passed out in the bathroom after it broke into the establishment and partied a little too hard.

The Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter confirmed that the “masked bandit” drank multiple types of alcohol throughout the Ashland ABC Store after rummaging through the shelves, and it eventually passed out in the bathroom. The raccoon was then taken to the shelter to “sober up” before being released back into the wild.

“Officer Martin safely secured our masked bandit and transported him back to the shelter to sober up before questioning,” the shelter said in a Facebook post.

“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

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