BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 21, 2023
An Old Town police officer recently freed a skunk whose head somehow became stuck in two Dunkin’ cups. The skunk’s misadventure likely began while it tried to indulge its sweet-tooth or get a late-night caffeine boost before heading back to the University of Maine. In an encounter caught on his body camera, Officer David Hilton approached the crepuscular creature at the Dunkin’ drive-through on Stillwater Avenue. While deftly avoiding getting in the path of the south-end of an anxious skunk, Hilton removed both cups from the animal’s head. And once freed, the skunk, in what may be interpreted as an expression of gratitude, scampered away without spraying Hilton.