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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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To: DallasBiff

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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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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To: DallasBiff

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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To: DallasBiff
"..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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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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To: DallasBiff
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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To: DallasBiff

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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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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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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I almost hit a squirrel with my car yesterday. Chased it over two lawns and a flower bed before it safely climbed a tree.


21 posted on 06/04/2025 11:03:11 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: DallasBiff

Slow news day?


22 posted on 06/04/2025 11:12:42 AM PDT by P8riot (You will never know Jesus Christ as a reality in your life until you know Him as a necessity.)
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To: DallasBiff

And this is important because..
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23 posted on 06/04/2025 11:33:08 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: DallasBiff

Question: What animal will eventually become its favorite midnight snack?

The possum (they eat road kill!)


24 posted on 06/04/2025 11:42:57 AM PDT by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
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To: DallasBiff

A possum was on a bridge today. In other news, a bird flew over a man’s house today, and a bear sh#t in the woods.


27 posted on 06/04/2025 5:22:31 PM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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