Watch: Raccoon crawls through roof, steals doughnut

While most people will vow to give up sweets and baked goods in 2016, one raccoon is doing no such thing.

The raccoon, nicknamed after video game franchise character Sly Cooper, was caught on video crawling through a roof at a doughnut shop and successfully stealing a doughnut.

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The people recording the video were clearly cheering for him and while it surely violates more than one health code, it's pretty awesome.

As Time noted, "Somewhere, Ariana Grande's heart is swelling with pride."

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