Posted on 09/22/2010 7:00:35 PM PDT by dynachrome
In a bizarre attempt to outwit Mother Nature, city officials introduced beady-eyed opossums in Brooklyn years ago to scarf down rats running amok in the borough, according to local officials.
Surprise: Operation opossum didn't work.
Not only do wily rats continue to thrive, but the opossums have become their own epidemic, with bands of the conniving creatures sauntering through yards, plundering garbage cans and noshing on fruit trees.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“The critters have a mouth full of 50 sharp teeth, tend to exude a foul odor, and can occasionally contract rabies,’
In other words, liberals.
Time to release the Viking Kitties.
Possums are marsupials. Foul, destructive, flea and stench ridden marsupials.
This sort of thing is happening all over - introduce a new animal/insect/organism to control another. The outcome is always the same. Instead of fixing the first problem, they create another. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!
and they’re greasy too.
The comments at the site are funny. Urging that the opossums be let loose at city council meetings. Lot’s o rats there!
What a bunch of urban idiots. Out here we call possums “natures garbage cleaners.” Then the dogs kill them.
It’s cats, you Yankee fools. CATS!
Don’t you city folk know ANYTHING? :)
/johnny
abbyg! You are so right!!
Too bad that we don’t know about all of the species mixing these lunatics have come up with!
In those neighborhoods, it would probably be AK-47s. LOL
Possums are great in the wild, at a distance of about 50 feet, they are kind of fun to watch. Any closer, and it feels like a hobo’s dirty laundry was suddenly thrust up one’s nose. At about 20 feet, you can see the bugs crawling through and over their coats. At 10 feet, you can see the ingrained dirt in their digging claws and snouts.
Besides being gross, they are incredibly destructive in urban or suburban settings. They like to get into the attic and root around the insulation and wiring. The stench they leave, especially from a boar, is almost impossible to expunge without a tearout and renovation.
Feral cats would have been a better solution - NOT A GOOD ONE - but better.
*shudder*
Don’t you city folk know ANYTHING? :)
========================================= Isn't that the truth!!! Anyone with 20 seconds worth of experience with a possum would know that this was a bad idea. The next bright idea they will have is introducing Kudzu to central park to cover up bare spots in the woods.
Only in NY would possums "nosh."
It's a win-win. We get a new crop of marksmen, the locality gets rid of rats, and the nation grows stronger by training for more self sufficient and competent children.
/johnny
That’s where they came from? I really noticed them last summer. Quite a few of them play possum so well, they got run over.
Are you sure it’s not liberals you’ve been watching?
“Are you sure it’s not liberals you’ve been watching?”
I am quite certain. Possums are smarter, and they don’t kill their own young.
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