Masked bandits raid our camp

Ever have an experience make you paranoid for life?
Well about 15 years ago I was camping with my parents in Thunder Bay. We purchased a case of beer one night and put it in a cooler. Since no one felt like drinking (in our group that is) we went to bed thinking we would have a few the next day or two.
That night someone invaded our campsite and stole our cooler. We did find the cooler the next day down a trail with our food still in it but all the beer gone.
Well over the weekend I went camping with my parents again, this time at Itasca State Park near Bemidji, MN.
The first night belonged to me and my dad as my mom, brother and his buddy did not come until the next day. Dad and I had a few beers, some great eats and fun around the campfire.
When we went to bed I asked him if I should put the beer cooler in the camper. He said “No.”
About 2 a.m. I suddenly awoke to here a beer bottle clink below me... the cooler was under my end of the camper.
I immediately sprung from my bed telling my groggy dad that someone was stealing our beer.

I opened the door and peeked out... I was in my undies u know.
I could see the cooler was still there but the lid was ajar. I quickly put my jeans on and ventured outside to see if I could catch the culprits.
I went outside and said... “Who’s there?”
No one answered. I stood still and listened. Then I heard a shuffling noise behind the camper... I figured they were waiting for us to go back to bed to come back and steal the beer. So I went around behind the camper and looked for a silhouette of a person... then something caught my eye... It was masked bandits... three raccoons on the ground fighting over the four pepperoni sticks I had thrown on top of the beer to keep them cold.
It was funny that we had been hit by raccoons. Just a couple of hours before my dad reminisced about how they used to be so bad in the park when we were kids. “You could shine your flashlight up in the trees and see ten pairs of eyes looking down waiting for you to go to bed,” he said.
Another camper in the park said the coons got into their tent the week before and ate all their vitamins and anti-histomins. So now they are healthy and were likely gassy from the spice pepperettes.
–Until then,
Ken