Raccoon Bandits Break Into A Locked-Up California Bank
A quiet morning at a Redwood City, California bank turned into something straight out of a cartoon when a man at the ATM spotted what looked like a stuffed animal inside the building. Then it moved.
What he saw next was even stranger, two raccoons had somehow gotten trapped inside the locked bank and were tearing through the place while apparently hunting for snacks. He called the Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA, and the scene quickly shifted from odd to full-on cleanup mode.
By the time the animals were found, the only thing left to figure out was how they got in, and what they managed to knock over before they left.
The masked bandits’ MO sounds like it’s taken from some classic heist movie: “There were muddy paw prints on a tree outside the bank, so we suspect the raccoons climbed the tree to the roof of the bank, and then somehow managed to crawl into the air ducts and fell through the ceiling tiles onto the floor of the bank,” Buffy Martin Tarbox, spokesperson for the Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA, stated.
That is one very committed break-in.
The furry burglars didn’t go easily.
“The bank managers let our rescue staff into the bank,” Tarbox stated. “After about 10 minutes of chasing the raccoons around the bank, we were finally able to safely shoo them outside. They apparently didn’t want to leave the bank.”
Raccoon bandits in the ducts are nothing compared to the crew racing to catch 130 escaped hamsters.
They were not in a hurry to clock out.
The animals eventually left, but not before leaving their mark.
“There were several broken ceiling tiles, and the masked bandits knocked papers around and even a computer over,” Tarbox said. “Thankfully, the raccoons were not injured during their morning escapade, and to our knowledge, they didn't abscond with any money.”
Also, an empty box of cookies.
That cookie box probably tells the whole story.
And if you thought raccoon bank break-ins were wild, this Dunkin’ Donuts customer went viral for stealing doughnuts. From Mischief To Fame, the raccoon TikTok sensation.
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