It’s the Christmas season. We are past Thanksgiving and can legitimately get on with Christmas–even though the store decorations went up in September. Well, there’s one raccoon who was determined to get ‘in the spirit.’

On Wednesday, Breitbart posted an article about an unnamed raccoon who was found passed-out drunk in the bathroom of a liquor store in Hanover County, Virginia. The unnamed, and probably hungover, raccoon has been captured, examined and found without injuries, and been released back into the wild.

This is not the first time raccoons have had a problem with alcohol. The article reports:

“In early September 2019, residents in Ottawa, Canada, spotted a few raccoons staggering around in the daylight and grew panicky enough to call the cops,” it noted. “[One raccoon] couldn’t really move. He was dragging his legs, he was wobbling, having a hard time standing up,” one resident told CBC News. “You could tell something was wrong with him for sure.”

“As it turns out, these normally nocturnal animals weren’t dangerous or rabid; they had simply gotten drunk from eating too many fermented crab apples. Over the next few days, the sight of drunken raccoons stumbling around and passing out on people’s property became all too common,” it added.

I remember an incident in our house many years ago when a bunch of fresh-picked blackberries that had been washed and sprinkled with some sugar were left on the counter for snacking. After a few days, we noticed the children acting strangely and removed the blackberries. Things ferment very quickly in the summertime!

This was the Facebook post: