Posted on 01/19/2012 3:21:25 AM PST by EinNYC
Early morning commuters had a furry surprise on their trip into Manhattan last week.
Riders on a Manhattan-bound D train had to evacuate the car at around 4:30 a.m. on Friday morning after someone spotted the adorable — yet possibly dangerous — opossum taking a free ride, an MTA spokesman confirmed.
The incident was first reported by the New York Times.
The four-legged creature reportedly boarded the train at Coney Island in Brooklyn. The train was first stopped at West Fourth Street, where police officers came on with gloves to try to get the opossum out. When that didn't work, animal control officers had to come in to remove it.
An MTA spokesman said he didn't know of any other incidents where an opossum had hitched a ride with the MTA.
I betcha folks thought the fuzzball was just a big rat.
She's obviously never encountered one while putting junk in her outside garbage can at night........
Another fare jumper. If Bernie Goetz had been on that car, he might have had it for dinner.
'I call the big one bitey!'
Myself and Mr. Spacely....circa 1978
Opossum’s are vermin, I doubt they can compete with the giant rats both two legged and four in the city however.
My wife and I were riding the NY Subway down to Coney Island when we made a stop above ground. The doors opened and nobody was on the platform. A pigeon, however, flew into the car with us and took the 20 minute ride down to Coney Island.
When we reached the final stop, the pigeon flew out like it actually knew where it was going.
Hilarious!
Of course, the real reason was the pigeon was looking for food dropped on the floor of the subway car by other passengers.
But liberals will tell us that a new pipeline will disrupt animal life.
>> There’s nothing “dangerous” about a possum. They’re the only animal nearly immune to rabies <<
My county health department told me exactly the same thing when my dogs caught and killed one in the backyard. I volunteered to bring it in for testing, but they said not to bother. Just put it in a plastic bag for the next trash pick up.
(But they said that if the poor creature had been a coon or fox, my dogs would need to be quaranteened.)
I grew up in Coney Island. There were things that came out after dark that would make Marlin Perkins take notice.
Them possums be tricky rascals. I’ll bet this one had a forged ticket. You can still trip them up. Ask him if he’s taking the subway to the Statue of Liberty. If he say yes, then you know he’s a possum and not a New York rat. If he say no, he might still be a possum cause they is big liars. I heared a noise out back one night, and I shines a light up the tree, and there sits Mr. possum and I asks him, “Possum, what you doin’ up there?” And he say, “Lookin’ through my new telescope at the stars.”
They is dirty little liars. He was peepin through Miss Julie’s window.
Too bad it didn’t bite a chunk out of Bloomies butt!
Bloombutt is singularly the person I hate most in this world. He has caused me and many of my colleagues unbelievable misery as teachers. We have been actively harassed, threatened, fined, brought up on false charges, run out of schools, etc. as part of his asinine “school reform” project, wherein he blindly flails about without a clue, ruining dedicated peoples’ careers left and right. I would have loved the opossum to have bitten off his entire face, a la the chimp who did that to a woman.
Bloombutt is singularly the person I hate most in this world. He has caused me and many of my colleagues unbelievable misery as teachers. We have been actively harassed, threatened, fined, brought up on false charges, run out of schools, etc. as part of his asinine “school reform” project, wherein he blindly flails about without a clue, ruining dedicated peoples’ careers left and right. I would have loved the opossum to have bitten off his entire face, a la the chimp who did that to a woman.
Culture does exist outside the large urban areas, leaving a place like NYC does not mean leaving civilization, it means the opposite.
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