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Jensen, a Hamilton cheese supplier, didn’t want to identify the establishment, but said it’s near the Hamilton-Burlington area. He and a co-worker entered the shop on Sunday around 8 p.m. and saw the distressed look on the woman’s face behind the counter.
“I went up to get a coffee and heard (my co-worker) laughing,” he said. “He was pointing at the ceiling and I saw the ceiling tile was off-kilter. I said, ‘That’s a weird thing to laugh at.’ Then I looked again, and there was a little face looking back at me.”
Even though the video is very short, the raccoon was actually there for about a half-hour, coming in and out of the ceiling hole.
Jensen believes something broke in the shop’s air conditioning system because of the impending snowstorm and the critter wandered in that way, in search of food.
“At first, I thought it was the wind pushing a tile around, then I saw a nose and thought it was a huge rat,” he said. “And then I saw the hand come down. I started laughing my head off. He has the audacity to be picky. He roots around a little and gets an orange fritter or cruller. Before they got him out, he came back and picked up another two doughnuts.”
Part of the shop was closed while the raccoon situation unfolded, Jensen said.
He said he hasn’t seen the famous video of the Manhattan subway rat dragging a pizza slice by the teeth yet, but he understands why his clip is drawing comparisons.
“I’ve heard my video is ‘Canada’s answer to the pizza rat,’ so I guess I’ll have to watch the video,” he said. “I had to unsubscribe from all my YouTube e-mails because it was getting so out of control.”
