New Zealand possum holds woman ‘hostage’ at her home

theguardian.com ^ | Eva Corlett

[BenLurkin]

[AppyPappy]

Possums are food

[mware]

I’ve got a possum comes to my front porch almost every night. Ugly but they eat ticks so good on them.

[EvilCapitalist]

I ran over a Possum once. Turned it into road pizza.

[Greg123456]

Take away people’s 2nd amendment rights and you can’t even fend off wildlife.

[unread]

"Possums are food."

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...

[MotorCityBuck]

“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.:)

[Deaf Smith]

But what of Little, Mary and her opossum that sleeps in a box?

[kiryandil]

They're tick vacuum cleaners.

As such, they are on my Favorable Vermin list.

[Salamander]

Possums are yer friends

[oldasrocks]

possums are real greasy and hard to cook. Rather eat the pot.

[MotorCityBuck]

Very Cool.

[AppyPappy]

Shoot my brother, you got to give ole Sam a chance in that roasting pan

[GaltAdonis]

I used to have a possum get into my trash cans at night.
It became quite annoying. Trash strewn all over the
backyard. The thing would hiss at me menacingly when I
tried to shoo it away - and would refuse to leave.

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.

[IndispensableDestiny]

This is why so many New Zealanders willfully accepted lockdowns.

[Ezekiel]

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.

[Getready]

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..

[Openurmind]

Lol. woke crybaby...

[Openurmind]

I have been told you you have to bake them slow and keep poking them to drain the grease. Like a Goose.

[A strike]

Communist Jacinda Ardern is who is holding NZ hostage.

But hey, that’s what they wanted.