Posted on 11/15/2021 4:00:19 PM PST by BenLurkin
Officers received a call late on Sunday night from a distressed woman who said “a possum was holding her hostage” at her home in the South Island city of Dunedin.
“When she would exit her house and attempt to reach her car, the possum would charge at her and she would flee inside,” Snr Sgt Craig Dinnissen said.
When the police arrived and approached the front door, a juvenile possum came out of the dark and climbed an officer’s leg. Dinnissen suspected it was either an escaped pet or had recently been separated from its mother.
Maurice the pet Possum in the arms of Mary Little (16) at their home in Loburn , North Canterbury, New Zealand. Maurice has been a family pet for a year and a half and was around 5 months old when he was taken in by the family. He sleeps in a lined box in the top of Little’s wardrobe in her bedroom.
After apprehending the suspect, police delivered the possum up to nearby lookout spot Signal Hill and released it into the wild “to prevent further citizen harassment”. No harm came to the possum or the officer, Dinnessen said.
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Possums are food
I’ve got a possum comes to my front porch almost every night. Ugly but they eat ticks so good on them.
I ran over a Possum once. Turned it into road pizza.
Take away people’s 2nd amendment rights and you can’t even fend off wildlife.
That's true enough, but just barely... I do realize that sometimes you have to take what's in the bag, but I'll take a young groundhog over a possum any day...
“Ugly but they eat ticks so good on them”.
I just found that out from a friend who is a hunter, and that deer are carriers of ticks.
As my fenced yard has been a Daycare Center over the last 5 Springs for Fawns I’ll take the Possums.:)
But what of Little, Mary and her opossum that sleeps in a box?
As such, they are on my Favorable Vermin list.
possums are real greasy and hard to cook. Rather eat the pot.
Very Cool.
Shoot my brother, you got to give ole Sam a chance in that roasting pan
I soon got tired of playing games with it, and shot
the thing dead with a Ruger 10/22 rifle. It has
ceased to cause me any further annoyance.
This is why so many New Zealanders willfully accepted lockdowns.
I caught on a long while back that “wildlife” was a term invented by wildlife so that they’d have a ready excuse for their shenanigans.
My possums have never hissed or gone through trash...they just walk on through...politely leave when I shoo them...i thought I found a dead one in a receptacle...but he aroused after I shook the container and skedaddled out of there..
Lol. woke crybaby...
I have been told you you have to bake them slow and keep poking them to drain the grease. Like a Goose.
Communist Jacinda Ardern is who is holding NZ hostage.
But hey, that’s what they wanted.
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