From The BBC
16 July 2015
A "drunk" squirrel has caused hundreds of pounds of damage at a private members' club. The secretary of Honeybourne Railway Club said he originally thought someone had broken into the premises, near Evesham in Worcestershire. The floor was covered in beer and glasses and bottles smashed, Sam Boulter said.
Mr Boulter, 62, said he then saw a squirrel "staggering around" after coming out from behind a box of crisps. He added: "There were bottles scattered around, money scattered around and he had obviously run across the bar's pumps and managed to turn on the Caffrey's tap.
"He must have flung himself on the handle and drank some as he was staggering around all over the place and moving a bit slowly. I've never seen a drunk squirrel before. He was sozzled and looked a bit worse for wear, shall we say."
Mr Boulter, who estimated he lost about £300 in the incident, eventually caught the squirrel in a waste paper bin and released it out of the window.
[I do love stories like this. They make such a pleasant, and delightfully odd, change from all the doom and gloom we’re fed on these days. It make me laugh out loud when I read it, chuckle for hours afterwards and I’m still smiling about it today. I do wonder though what the recovering squirrel felt like the next day: initial confusion and occasional flashbacks, pounding headache and ‘funny’ taste in its mouth. Then slow and painful recovery followed by the strange feeling he wants to do it all again no matter the predictable consequences…..]
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