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Police report attempt to revive flattened opossum(CNN) -- A Pennsylvania man attempted to resuscitate "a road-killed opossum," state police say. But this was one possum who wasn't playing possum -- the ugly creature remained dead. Troopers responding to the scene in Oliver Township on Thursday determined that Donald J. Wolfe, 55, of Brookville, was drunk, according to the police report. Several witnesses observed Wolfe's failed resurrection of the flattened marsupial, police said. It was not immediately clear how he endeavored to restore the possum's life. The arresting officer in the incident was unavailable for comment Friday. Attempts to reach Wolfe were also unsuccessful. Wolfe will be charged with one charge of public drunkenness, police said. http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/26/opossum.drunk/index.html?hpt=T2Wow mouth to mouth with a opposum. Has anyone ever seen what they eat not to mention this thing was a dead road kill! I once put a putrid oozing trout in a live trap and the trapped opossum ate every drop!
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Thank you for that!
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Hey buddy "hold my beer and Watch this" I nhave never seen one in real life but seeing them on TV gives me enough visual to realize you shound't make out with one.
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Blair, be thankful there are no possums in Canada. You aren't missing out on anything!
I have a couple possums stories from work myself, but I may offend some sensitive readers so I'll keep them to myself.
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I believe that I can honestly state that I've never been drunk enough to want to resuscitate a possum. Seems like this could be a good beer commercial.
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When I was younger I once woke up and was being resuscitated by a possum.
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Wow, that actually answers a few questions that I had about you. Are you sure it was only trying to resuscitate you?
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That's how the police report read...
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Well in that case I guess it could be true.
Man that possum had to be really, really drunk.
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By the way, has anybody seen my cat?
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That's too funny Bruce!
All I know as my last normally mild mannered dog absolutely hated them. One day we were headed out the door for a walk and there was one standing there. In seconds she grabbed a hold of it and had it's neck snapped. Wow!
Scot (Esshup) says they make great pets. Scot?
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Cecil: I've got a couple of tame ones here that have been visiting the deer that died by the pond about 3 weeks ago. When do you want me to drop them off? The pair of red fox that have been visiting have been a bit more skittish.
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Was granny the REAL Possum Queen? Opossums were the drug of choice back then;, they just kept it secret! I might get Moderated
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Scot (Esshup) says they make great pets. Scot? My friend in college ran a trap line and caught a mother possum with babies that were well developed much more so than most he caught with babies. She had 5 and we bottle fed them and somehow 2 survived. He kept one and I kept one. I can say they are pretty much just like cats. They can be taught to use a litter box like a cat and are a bit more social than the average cat. They will eat anything! My possum lived 6 years before it died of unknown causes. His lived to be 8.
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So the opossum died?!? Man, I bet it would have lived if the dude was sober.
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When I was younger I once woke up and was being resuscitated by a possum. thank goodness it was only resuscitation
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When I was younger I once woke up and was being resuscitated by a possum. thank goodness it was only resuscitation There's usually more to these kind of stories but we will probably never know.
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Blair, be thankful there are no possums in Canada. You aren't missing out on anything! 'cept escapees and the Virginia Opossum that makes it to Southern Ontario. Saw a road-killed one a few weeks ago near Oshawa,ON. Yep, even had to go back and take a second look as I have never seen one before. They aren't pretty when schmucked... although not so pretty alive either it seems. I wasn't drunk enough to kiss it.
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I knew they have slowly been spreading north over the last few decades but I didn't realize they've made it to Canada... Back in the 1800's, they didn't range any further north than the Mason-Dixon Line.
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I've seen several here in Minneapolis, so there's no reason that they couldn't survive in most of the continental US.
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Wait until the feral hogs make it North. They're a real trip.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
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I think Pennsylvania via the PGC and the dept of Agriculture did a good job of cleaning them out of PA. Where there used to be thousands and sign all over, no one is seeing them anymore...
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Wait until the feral hogs make it North. They're a real trip. A friend of mine in MO hunts w/ dogs, and apparently there is a BIG warning about how to deal with Sus Scrofa if you shoot & kill one. Keep the dogs out of it, wear gloves while handling it, bury it in a plastic bag and mark the burial spot, call DNR and tell them where you put it, etc etc etc. I guess they carry all kinds of exotic distemper & other diseases, as well as just the general nastiness of a dead pig. the eurasian wild boar is a BIG deal here, trying to keep them from getting any farther north, @ least. -skinny
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bovine tuberculosis....that's the other one....sorry, brain fart.
Trying to help with 7.5 Acres in the Chain of Lakes Illinois - - The fish would stay out of trouble if it could just keep its fool mouth shut. Turns out there is a lot I should be learning from the fish.
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Wait until the feral hogs make it North. They're a real trip. Wait until Bigfoot makes it south.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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