A classic.
Posted on 10/20/2009 6:46:22 AM PDT by sevinufnine
A Vernon Hill man was found guilty Monday of animal cruelty after he stomped an opossum to death while on a June 20 ride-along with a Danville police officer.
Evan Bryce Schuler, 23, appealed the judge’s decision, and his case will now move to circuit court.
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well who hasn’t stomped a ‘possum to death?
Maybe that is just what they do to vermin in his neck of the woods- I’d have to see whether he was enjoying it a bit too much.
Not a good career move.
Stupid waste of government resources.
Now I'm thinking of Jeff Goldblum in "The Fly" as his transformation begins in earnest. He sits down to a nice meal with Geena Davis, and vomits digestive juices all over his plate. "Oh. I shouldn't have done that. That was disgusting, wasn't it?"
A fair judge with a sense of humor would order him to do all his commuting on a tractor for the next year.
Whoever turned the guy in should be stomped!
Anyone who stomps an animal like that to death, is sick.
Dog chases cats.
Frogs catch flies.
City folk may think an opossum is cute; but to a farmer they are vermin - to be destroyed on site.
I wouldn't take the guy as a cop (wouldn't do to have a boy in blue stomping the guts out of vermin in public); but animal cruelty?
He didn't want to be cruel to it; he just wanted it dead.
One of my pet peeves on FR (and it happens all the time) is when folks post a local story and don’t put the state in which it occurred in the headline (in parentheses). Danville where? If it’s a state in my region then I might open the link.
ahem... ‘destroyed on sight’.
I could see them charging this guy with killing an Opossum out of season, hunting without a license or some other hunting related charge, but this is just stupid.
I don’t see any problem here... I can see convicting someone for stomping a cute racoon or lovable tiny chipmunk, or even a quaint skunk. But not for a ‘Rat-like Carvillian oppossum.
Rediculous!
Possums have no place in the city. They are dangerous and vidous (they don’t ALWAYS play dead. Possums make a mess out of garbage and the spread diseases like rabies, mange and others.
He did what the rest of those pantywaist “officers” should have done. He dispatched a nuisance animal, quickly and humanely without the unnecessary discharge of a weapon.
Stomping a possum will will make it unfit for cooking and is therefore a waste of good meat.
Did the animal belong to anyone? Was this outside city limits, in a more rural area?
I have no problems with it and it should not have been illegal. Do we want to try people for involuntary animal slaughter when they hit a possum with their car?
Animals can have no rights.
You don’t know what your talking about. See my last post.
I found a young possum that had fallen into my garbage can and could not get out My first instinct was to kill the ugly little creature, but I soon realized I could not do that. I gave it a drink of water and turned it loose. Would I make a good cop? Probably not.
Makes your boots look more authentic, though.
A classic.
Well I guess since the possum was killed, Cass Sunstein won’t need to get it a lawyer.
Or use ambiguous terms like ‘tri state area.’
Pure silliness. Call the cops because I’ve stomped rats to death when moving hay. Add to that list a few snakes, too. WTH is becoming of this country?
How To Clean a Possum
by Earl Shelsby
You’ll find them a little harder to kill than rabbits which are a snap to kill with a sharp blow behind the neck with a stick or the side of the hand. But I let you do the killing.
Once dead, remove head, tail, and feet at the knees. Then skin just like you did the rabbits. The skin will be a little harder to take off than rabbit skin, but it will not tear and will come off in one piece just in case you want to save it as a trophy.
Then you clean it and cut it up just like you did the rabbit. If it is a young critter 1 1/2 to 3 lbs, cook it with any rabbit recipe. If it is larger, soak it over night in salt water and make it into a stew or some dish that allows you to cook it until it gets tender
One of my pet peeves is folks who come in here and haven’t done their research before posting. It’s clearly indicated in the Topics at the top of the article U.S. Virginia.
How do they know that the possum was really dead? Hmmm . . .
I believe this case got so much attention because a police officer in Danville lost his job recently for shooting a small dog that was acting “aggressively” towards him. Tree huggers went totally insane...granted the little dog probably weighed less than 10 pounds and he could have simply stomped it himself rather than shoot it...but that’s life!
Do you know you can get 20 lbs of grease off a 10 lb possum when you cook it?
Just so long as you don’t treat felons in the same, kind manner, you’d be OK as a cop ;>)
That’s no lie...was it dead? Yrs ago, we had a possum living under our home and it was trying to nest. My hubby did shoot it with a 22 like 10 times and we figured it was dead. NOPE> Next morning the blood trail went to the neighbor’s wood pile. We tore into it and never did find the creature. Kinda freaky.
Do you know you can get 20 lbs of grease off a 10 lb possum when you cook it?
Good drippins for the sweet taters..........
Ditto all that. Hey, we agree on something. :-)
Anyone who thinks a possums is cute has never seen one up close!
(Sorry, I like Weird Al and the title of this thread made me think of this song)
A .22 shot to the head is so much more efficient. Stomping it to death seems extreme, but shooting it with a 9 mm or a load of buckshot would have been a real mess.
We’ve trapped several here over the years because they love to move into your crawlspace, tear down the insulation, or even the flexible air ducts and make a nest for the winter. I know a couple of guys who do home heating repairs and installations, and they always tell me not to tolerate an urbanized ‘possum if I catch one getting cozy around the house.
I thought that Possum Stomping was a recognized sport below the Mason-Dixon line. I thought it had inspired the Weird Al Yankovic song Weasel Stomping Time. In Michigan we just ran over them in 4WD vehicles (hey....that dirty snowball has eyes, and it’s moving....)
Hey, here’s a thought....maybe Rush should go out and stomp some possums. Then he’d be fully qualified for acceptance into the NFL....
First thought that came in to my mind also! LOL.
Are they really, really, sure it’s dead?
Stompin’ USA
If everybody had opossums
Across the U.S.A.
Then everybody’d be stompin’
Like Virgin-i-a
...............
Let’s go stompin’ now
Everybody’s learnin how
Come opossum stompin’ with me
...............
We’ll all be planning out a route
We’re gonna take real soon
Tell the teacher we’re stompin’
Stompin’ U.S.A.
Let me make this clear, no opossums were
harmed in the making of this lame nonsense
While there, Schuler got out of the cruiser and chased an opossum as it ran along a fence, Gibbs said.
“He grabbed a hold of the links of the fence and just started stomping,” she said.
Schuler then ran back to the police cars.
“He was like, ‘I shouldn’t have done that,’” McBride said.
Schuler’s attorney, James Priest, said that his client was riding with McBride because he was thinking about applying for a job with the police department
I know I want the police department hiring people who crack at the sight of a harmless animal and abandon their cars to chase it down and kill it. (Not really. Dude's elevator stops a few floors short of the top.)
Whoever does this sort of thing is sick and needs their head examined.
I have absolutely no tolerance for anyone who injures helpless creatures.
Nice thing you did......I am the same way.
Nah...Rush needs to get into dog fighting if he wants in the NFL!
I hate opossum’s. Mean Nasty and ugly. They will crawl into a dead cow and eat their way out.
Yeah, somehow I don’t think that comes under caretaking of s God’s smaller creatures, the way He intended it. I’m not anti-hunting or a city person my husband hunts and I always go out to the tailgate to admire it and watch while he cleans it, and I will down a nice deer steak with the best of ‘em. But he is a true sportsman, do your best to get a clean shot, track any injured animal and put it out of pain. To not kill cleanly, to stomp and injure an animal causing pain and a delayed death is sick.
sounds like my mother-in-law....
I don’t know, they look like they could keep your feet warm- and those teeth could trim your toenails. And you’d never have to take your garbage out again- they’d just eat it.
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