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Threat of lawsuit takes life out of Possum Drop
New York Times via Houston Chronicle ^
| January 2, 2004
| JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Posted on 01/02/2004 3:12:36 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: farmfriend
The possum was already dead, that's not animal cruelty. Would they feel better if a turkey vulture gobbled up the carcus?
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posted on
01/02/2004 4:09:17 PM PST
by
Pro-Bush
(Homeland Security + Tom Ridge = Open Borders --> Demand Change!)
To: Dog Gone
How do they know it wasn't just 'playing possum' ?
Seriously though, I saw a 'dead' possum once and it looked grotesque and inedible... we walked further down the creek and were amazed to see the thing get up and walk away a short time later.
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posted on
01/02/2004 4:12:45 PM PST
by
Mr. K
To: Dog Gone
I remember watching a video in high school zoology class that showed a possum giving birth. Man was that was disgusting.
To: Dog Gone
Up until the very early 1980s, my hometown of Plymouth, Michigan has a "Chicken Flying Contest".
There would be a huge parade of floats with the contestant birds prominantly featured. Then, they'd put birds into mail boxes with toilet plungers set into the back. The plungers would push the chicken out of the elevated roost and the longest flight would win. We had chickens flying to the top of the local 3-story hotel. Great fun for the whole town.
Of course, the animal "rights" Nazis put a stop to that.
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posted on
01/02/2004 4:16:28 PM PST
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Dog Gone
PETA - Possums Entertaining Towns Annually
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posted on
01/02/2004 4:17:03 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: Nick The Freeper
I remember watching a video in high school zoology class that showed a possum giving birth. Man was that was disgusting.you've obviously never seen a lawyer giving birth. they can tell whether it will grow up to be a lawyer by the orifice that emits it.
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posted on
01/02/2004 4:40:59 PM PST
by
dep
(Ense Petit Placidam Sub Libertate Qvietem)
To: Dog Gone
Next New Year's Eve contact me, I'll volunteer. We possums have to stick together. I'd prefer not to eat the cat food, though. OldPossum
To: Dog Gone
Perhaps what is needed here is some sort of legislation that can define individuals or organisations as "legal terrorists" based on lengthy track records of threatening legal action. I realize the criteria would be subject to debate and is far from "well defined", but organisations like PETA, the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, Larry Klayman's Judicial Watch and others run rampant, filing lawsuits like they're going out of style, and backlogging courts with their intimidation tactics. I don't believe there's anything in the Constitution that gives individuals or organisations the right to file lawsuits or threaten to do so, day in and day out to coerce their own aggenda on others. This, along with tort reform would go a long way in freeing this country up from the deathgrip that lawyers and suehappy groups currently enjoy.
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posted on
01/02/2004 4:44:02 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: g'nad
Possum ping.
To: Dog Gone
bump
To: Dog Gone
Wonder how long it took them ol' boys to find a dead possum?
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posted on
01/02/2004 4:56:05 PM PST
by
zebra 2
To: SpaceBar
PETA ought to get a taste of their own lawsuit medicine, imho. Surely a bunch of FReeper scamps could think up something to keep PETA lawyers (yeah, I almost gagged typing those two words together) busy....
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posted on
01/02/2004 5:04:24 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Send a message to the Democrat traitors--ROCKEFELLER MUST RESIGN!)
To: zebra 2
How many lawyers does it take to eat a possum?
Three. One to do the eating and two to watch for other cars.
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posted on
01/02/2004 5:28:13 PM PST
by
baltodog
(When you're hanging from a hook, you gotta' get a bigger boat, or something like that.)
To: dep
"lawyers are inedible. they don't even compost very well."
Jus toss 'em on da manure pile an ya caint tell da difrence.
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posted on
01/02/2004 6:17:54 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Wave your flag, don't waive your rights!)
To: dep
"well, okay. lawyers are inedible. they don't even compost very well."
OH YES THEY DO!
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posted on
01/02/2004 6:22:50 PM PST
by
S.O.S121.500
(15,077 Ubi Est Mea)
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
...And then one day, he was shootin' at some food, when up through the ground come a bubblin' crude....
OIL that is....black gold.....Texas tea.....
Just damn.
If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
01/02/2004 6:26:09 PM PST
by
mhking
(My brother and I had never seen The Belt........but we had heard about it....)
To: zebra 2
Wonder how long it took them ol' boys to find a dead possum?About as long as it took to take the original one out behind the Citco an conk it upside the head.
What....you think these country boys are as stupid as Peta lawyers?
To: dep
I nominate Kuby.
To: Dog Gone
Town has a darling little website. Wonder if we can talk five people, two cats, and a dog into leaving. Wouldn't wanna change their statistics too much....
To: dep
nah, that wasn't a possum. sounds like it was a lawyer. One is a vicious, rat-like creature that roams the night and which people go out of their way to run over. The other is a marsupial.
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posted on
01/02/2004 10:59:51 PM PST
by
LexBaird
(Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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