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Marsupial on 35th Street
New York Times ^
| January 2004
| Nora Krug
Posted on 01/20/2004 9:29:04 AM PST by js1138
Heard Of The City Mouse? Try Bigger & Far Uglier
By: Nora Krug - www.nytimes.com
January 2004
New York - What was that furry creature parked on a ledge at 135 East 35th Street? A big rat? A cat? A small bear? For nearly eight hours, a quiet corner in Murray Hill was transformed into a kind of temporary zoo, as passers-by stopped to gawk and guess the identity of the long-snouted cat-size animal that paced along a narrow stone ledge about nine feet over a brownstone garden, sniffing, shaking and yawning.
"I was thinking it was a hedgehog, because of the Beatrix Potter books," said Jennifer Gould, who may have been the first to spot it, at 7:30am.
"I thought someone had put a giant statue of a rat in front of the building," said Lynn Peraza.
The animal was, in fact, an opossum - and not entirely an alien in Manhattan.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: New York
KEYWORDS: animals; humoropossum; newyork; nyc; opossum; oppossum; possum; wildlife
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Even Manhattan has vicious wild animals roaming the streets.
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posted on
01/20/2004 9:29:07 AM PST
by
js1138
To: js1138
I've seen an occasional opposum crossing the street here now and then. They're easily mistaken for a rat.
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posted on
01/20/2004 9:32:06 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
One lives under my porch and eats the leftover catfood every night. Maybe I should ask for a Reality TV show to spellbind New Yorkers. Yawn....
To: js1138
Even Manhattan has vicious wild animals roaming the streets.Yes, but they are usually wearing do-rags and have their oversized pants barely hanging on.
They also have opossums.
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posted on
01/20/2004 9:35:14 AM PST
by
ikka
To: js1138
I lived in southern Ontario, which is full of opossums, yet I never once spotted one. I did see some in New Zealand, however, where, without any predators, they are a real pest. The NZ government, which is one of the most conservation-minded in the world (and quite resonably so, when you consider the uniqueness and fragility of its wildlife) gives citizens the right to shoot as many of them as they damn please (they aren't native to New Zealand anyways, and have been partly responsible for the near-extinction of several bird species).
To: goldstategop
We had a new pilot (from Maine, i think)sign on to the Texas oil company I was flying for way back then. One early one morning ('bout 5:30)I arrived at the rear door to the hanger.
There was my new co-pilot throwing rocks in to the dumpster, and looking terrified. He said " don't go near the dumpster, there's the biggest rat I ever saw in there!!
I looked in to see a very disturbed possum hissing back at us.
I said " Possum, this here is a Yankee, Yankee this here is a Possum"
There now is some fellow from Maine trying to explain how he got the good old fashioned Southern nickname "Possum"
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posted on
01/20/2004 9:41:41 AM PST
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire with meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: js1138
Even Manhattan has vicious wild animals roaming the streets. Really? I thought she spent spare time in Chappaqua
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posted on
01/20/2004 9:47:11 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Boston: So much Liberty, you can buy a Politician already owned by someone else.)
To: js1138
Marsupial on 35th StreetSounds like the title to an old Bob Dylan song.
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posted on
01/20/2004 9:48:27 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: azhenfud; billbears; stainlessbanner
*shaking my head*
Yankees. What else can you say.
To: ikka
...but they are usually wearing do-rags and have their oversized pants barely hanging on...They also have opossums. Most of the time...they're in the middle of the road, hit by cars...(the possums &/or political moderates. :)
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posted on
01/20/2004 9:53:39 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: theDentist
I thought she spent spare time in Chappaqua....&/or reading stolen FBI Files.
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posted on
01/20/2004 9:57:59 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: js1138
I don't believe even idiot New Yorkers don't know a 'possum. Sad.
To: js1138
Serve with red wine.
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posted on
01/20/2004 9:59:07 AM PST
by
balrog666
(Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.)
To: Constitution Day
The fact a possum on the run qualifies as news in N.Y. is amazing.
Jokes on them.
To: js1138
Amazing why these Manhattanites didn't recognize what this animal was.
You see them all the time in Queens, either walking between houses at night, or as road kill on the Grand Central Parkway.
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posted on
01/20/2004 9:59:59 AM PST
by
PallMal
To: stainlessbanner; Constitution Day
Imagine what they'd think of an Armadillo.
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:00:40 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Death before dhimmi.)
To: Tijeras_Slim; Constitution Day
Road Trip?
< grin >
To: Tijeras_Slim
Imagine what they'd think of an Armadillo. 'possum on the half-shell...
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:02:48 AM PST
by
Jonah Hex
(If repetition wasn't a good thing, why would people get married?)
To: stainlessbanner; Tijeras_Slim
I bet they'd call Homeland Security on that one! LOL!
To: js1138
Next thing you know, we'll have badgers roaming the streets.
Badger, badger, badger, badger...mushroom, mushrooom...
SNAKE!
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:06:21 AM PST
by
Allegra
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