Opossum breaks into Florida liquor store and drinks bourbon
The drunken marsupial was found next to an empty bottle.
An opossum keen to have a tipple decided to break into a liquor store in Florida to find her booze of choice.
The female marsupial apparently drank bourbon before being brought to the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge.
A liquor store employee found the animal next to a broken and empty bottle of bourbon.
She sobered up at the rescue centre before being released back into the wild.
Michelle Pettis, of Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge, said: “A worker there found the opossum up on a shelf next to a cracked open bottle of liquor with nothing in it. She definitely wasn’t fully acting normal.”
She said: “We loaded her up with fluids to help flush out any alcohol toxins. She was good a couple of days later.”
Pettis added the opossum did not appear to have a hangover.
The store owner, Cash Moore, said he never had an opossum break in before.
He added: “She came in from the outside and was up in the rafters, and when she came through she knocked a bottle of liquor off the shelf.
“When she got down on the floor she drank the whole damn bottle.”
