A DRUNK squirrel caused hundreds of dollars worth of damage at a private members club when it turned on a beer tap and knocked over glasses and beer bottles.

    Sam Boulter, 62, thought the bar in Evesham, Worcestershire, Britain, had been ransacked by burglars when he opened up at 8 p.m. in the evening of July 12.

    But the branch secretary at Honeybourne Railyway Club was stunned when a squirrel emerged from a box of crisps “staggering around.” It had managed to empty and entire barrel of Caffreys ale on the floor, knocked bottles and glasses from shelves and tossed beer mats, straws and money from the bar.

    Boulter and two customers spent an hour trying to capture the rodent as he scampered around, but he was finally cornered after making a dash for the men’s toilets.

    “When I opened the door it was absolutely ransacked. At first I thought we’d been burgled but I realized it was all still locked up and that’s when we saw the squirrel,” he said.

    “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 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 looked a bit worse for wear.”(SD-Agencies)