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Officers in Ashland were called to an ABC store Saturday morning to apprehend an unusual suspect: a very intoxicated raccoon.(Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter)<\/p>\nASHLAND, Va. (WWBT) – The Downtown Ashland Association is asking the community to give a name to the town\u2019s unofficial mascot, the drunk raccoon. <\/p>\n
Ashland\u2019s \u201cTrashed Panda\u201d came in through the ceiling of the local ABC Store on Black Friday weekend for a quick night cap and ended up passed out in the bathroom. An act that got him in the international spotlight. <\/p>\n
Officers in Ashland were called to an ABC store Saturday morning to apprehend an unusual suspect: a very intoxicated raccoon.(Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter)<\/p>\n
The Trashed Panda phenomenon has already inspired an outpouring of creativity and generosity. Community-led fundraising efforts\u2014powered by drunk raccoon merchandise have raised over $200,000 <\/b>for Hanover County Animal Protection & Shelter.<\/p>\n
Raccoon breaks into Ashland ABC store, passes out in bathroom<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Yet, this raccoon doesn\u2019t even have a name. <\/p>\n \u201cNeighbors have affectionately called him everything from the ABC Bandit to the Rascally Raccoon,\u201d the Downtown Ashland Association said in a statement. \u201cBut a legend of this magnitude deserves more than a nickname shouted across social media.\u201d<\/p>\n Residents and raccoon enthusiasts everywhere can visit ashlandvirginia.com<\/b><\/a> <\/b>to submit their name ideas. Submissions are open now, and the winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to the ARC of Hanover Thrift Store<\/b><\/a>, along with the honor of having their chosen name announced as downtown Ashland\u2019s selected name for its unofficial mascot.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 WWBT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHLAND, Va. (WWBT) – The Downtown Ashland Association is asking the community to give a name to the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":457770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[104,2132,7220,7218,7217,7219,7221,159,67,132,68,7216,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-457769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breaking-news-video","10":"tag-live-speeches","11":"tag-live-updates","12":"tag-live-video","13":"tag-press-conference","14":"tag-real-time-coverage","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-video-updates","20":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115746319461797851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}