The 'staggering' raccoons were acting rabid, but they were just drunk, W.Va. cops say [View all]

Dallas the raccoon can’t hide his drunkenness very well. Neither can at least one other “masked bandit.”

At least two raccoons found themselves a little disoriented and were staggering around in a West Virginia town, according to a Facebook post from the Milton Police Department.

And when you’re a raccoon, those alcohol side effects don’t just make you look drunk. They make it look like you have rabies.

That’s why people started calling police to report the “suspected rabid raccoons” over two days this week.

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They got hold of some fermented crabapples.