A pair of raccoons broke into a bank in California.

Raccoon

Raccoon

The two animals caused chaos in the building and it took 10 minutes to safely shoo the raccoons back outside again, according to the Peninsula Humane Society.

The society's communications manager Buffy Martin Tarbox said: "There were muddy pawprints on a tree outside the bank, so we suspect the raccoons climbed the tree to the roof of the bank, and then somehow managed to crawl into the air ducts and fell through the ceiling tiles onto the floor of the bank.

"There were several broken ceiling tiles, and the masked bandits knocked papers around and even a computer over."