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16th Jul 2015

Squirrel gets accidentally locked in a bar, gets drunk, wrecks the place

We reckon he's barred from now on

JOE

An impromptu lock-in.

A squirrel had a sore head after the weekend when he was found alone in a wrecked bar with beer on the floor and the room ransacked.

The owners of the Honeybourne Railway Club in Worcester thought they had been burgled when they opened up Sunday morning to find the place turned over and the little critter laid out on the floor.

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Sam Boulter, the branch secretary of the Honeybourne Railway Club, said beer was spilled on the floor, glasses and bottles were knocked off the shelves and money and straws were scattered everywhere.

Mr Boulter told the Worcester News:”When I opened the door it was absolutely ransacked.

“At first I thought we’d been burgled but I realised it was all still locked up and that’s when we saw the squirrel.

“I’d never seen anything like it before – he had ran around the shelves and across the bar.

“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 and also managed to ruin some barrels too.

“He must have flung himself on the handle.”

It took the barman an hour to capture the little drunkard along with the help of two customers; he then set him free into the wild, where he could sober up.

Something tells us that little fella is barred from now on.

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