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Opossum rescued from Michigan's Mackinac Bridge
UPI ^ | 6/3/24 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 06/04/2025 8:29:09 AM PDT by DallasBiff

June 3 (UPI) -- Authorities in Michigan said an opossum was rescued from the Mackinac Bridge, the 5-mile bridge connecting the state's two peninsulas.

The Mackinac Bridge Authority said on social media that the opossum was spotted on the bridge May 29, prompting a response from bridge staff and the Mackinac County Sheriff's Office.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: opossum; roadkill
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What is with opossums and being on the road traffic. Growing up in western PA, there was usually a roadkill opossum on the road every week, do they have a death wish?

Have fun.

1 posted on 06/04/2025 8:29:09 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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Weeeeeelllll, you got your dead opossum and your dead racoooon; the blood and the guts gonna make you swoon....


2 posted on 06/04/2025 8:38:51 AM PDT by reed13k
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Opossum rescued from Michigan's Mackinac Bridge

Good!

Possums have to learn to cross bridges the proper way, using public transit.

3 posted on 06/04/2025 8:42:17 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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Looks like Percy O. Possum took a wrong turn near the bridge and wound up on it, far away from any hiding places.

That all sounds very nice, I suppose, but did Percy O. Possum really need to be ‘rescued’? From what?
How much money does a location, capture and transfer cost to the great state of Michigan?

What about all those ‘misplaced’ Raccoons, still young and learning the lay of the lands. Where is their Uber ride?


4 posted on 06/04/2025 8:45:19 AM PDT by lee martell
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How much money does a location, capture and transfer cost to the great state of Michigan?

I expect the marginal cost would be negligible: no extra personnel needed to be hired, and existing staff did not accrue overtime.

5 posted on 06/04/2025 8:56:49 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (“…all who were appointed for eternal life believed.” Acts 13:48)
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You’re probably right. This was a basic, non-rabid Possum, not a adult male Moose or Mama Black Bear.


6 posted on 06/04/2025 9:01:37 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: DallasBiff

I heard all opossums are born on the side of the road dead.


7 posted on 06/04/2025 9:03:47 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall)
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8 posted on 06/04/2025 9:05:42 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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I keep hoping that the possum guest at our peanut table has its home somewhere in our backyard so it doesn’t have to cross a street to dine.


9 posted on 06/04/2025 9:13:09 AM PDT by mairdie
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"..What is with opossums and being on the road traffic.."

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To show the 'possum it could be done..🥴🤣

Tanku, tanku! I'll see myself out.. 💩

10 posted on 06/04/2025 9:19:46 AM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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“Never take road-crossing advice from opossums.” - Deceased Deer


11 posted on 06/04/2025 9:25:34 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer ("We've taken care of everything, the words you read, the songs you sing...")
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To: DallasBiff

Opossums look a lot like a rat’s large cousin (and I desperately hate them) so I wouldn’t go out of my way to save a Opossum.


12 posted on 06/04/2025 9:25:48 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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My first Air Force assignment after Lackland was in the SW corner of Oklahoma right across the Red River from Texas. There were possums all over, as road kill and wandering around at night. One good 'ol boy that was at the time liked to chase them down and grab them by the tail.

My next assignment was on Guam and shortly after getting there, one night me and another sentry saw what looked (to me) like a good size possum running across the top of an ordnance bunker. I said to him, "I didn't know they had possums in Guam."

He said, "They don't. That was a big old rat."

13 posted on 06/04/2025 9:41:48 AM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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Possums have an attitude. The road is theirs. In fact, everything is theirs. If you disagree, they’ll hiss at you.


14 posted on 06/04/2025 9:42:11 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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A .22 silences opossum hissing.(and cuts down on stealing kittens,chicks,and pet food.).


15 posted on 06/04/2025 10:05:55 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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Opossum rescued...

Natural Selection is foiled once again.

16 posted on 06/04/2025 10:18:12 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: DallasBiff

Opossum rescued from Michigan's Mackinac Bridge

Why?   He was only playing possum.

17 posted on 06/04/2025 10:33:21 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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My Dad said he didn't like possum at all.   They were full of grease.
18 posted on 06/04/2025 10:52:27 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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19 posted on 06/04/2025 10:53:52 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: DallasBiff

Rescue it my eye. Just kick it over the side.....


20 posted on 06/04/2025 10:58:08 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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