99 Rideau raccoon fight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rideau_Street_McDonald's

This article is fucking gold.

For nearly all of its history, the restaurant was open 24 hours a day, and it attracted customers who came from bars and night clubs in the area. The restaurant's floor was often dirty, and people formed crowds rather than lines at the registers.

Customers witnessed drug use and sexual acts in a long, narrow hallway to the bathrooms dubbed "The Hallway to Hell" and isolated from the rest of the restaurant.

criminals used it as an easy escape from police

The restaurant was a site of frequent stabbings, drug use, liquor licence violations, violent attacks, sexual assaults, and many other criminal acts

"The video begins in the middle of the chaos, with young men punching, kicking, choking, and knocking or dragging each other to the ground as onlookers shout and jeer". Shortly after the start of the fight, a man appears on screen and can be seen pulling out a baby raccoon from his sweater. The man waves the raccoon around casually as a cigarette droops from his mouth.

Other viral videos of unusual altercations were filmed at the restaurant, such as customers beating each other with "Wet Floor" signs

"In fact, even as I draft this letter, another individual is recovering from a stabbing that occurred at that address yesterday.

In 2024, a Cantonese restaurant named 99 VIP Seafood signed a lease and became the location's next tenant.[14] It opened in September 2025 and closed in March 2026.[15][16] McDonald's Canada is open to reopening in downtown Ottawa, the CEO said in November 2024

In November 2025, it was announced that a new McDonald's location was set to open at 377 Dalhousie Street, at the intersection of Dalhousie and Rideau Street. The location officially opened in December of the same year,[18] notably with the owners of the franchise commemorating the occasion by making a donation to "a local raccoon rescue"