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Posted: 12/22/2005 6:02:22 PM EDT

Gotta call the police to remove an opossum from your house, what a bunch of pussies, I thought that is what they made subsonic rounds for

Christmas tree possum surprises Pa. teen
Associated Press
ENGLEWOOD, Pa. - Mary Kathleen O'Connor, 16, doing some studying for school about 6 a.m. Tuesday, said she was the first to be startled by an apparent Christmas tree stowaway.

"I'm looking at the tree and the angel just pops off," she said. "And a second later, this head just popped up. The eyes were, like, glowing. I was thinking, 'Oh my God!' And I screamed."

Other family members came running. "We looked at it and I thought it might have been a fake," said her father, Michael O'Connor, a Frackville attorney. "But then it moved its head. And I thought 'Holy Jeez. We're in trouble.'"

O'Connor called police, and William E. O'Donnell, a state Game Commission deputy wildlife conservation officer, removed an 18-inch-long opossum from the 8-foot Douglas fir the family had bought, bundled, from a dealer in Seltzer.

O'Donnell caged the animal and released it in woods about five miles away. The tree, meanwhile, was still in the front yard where Patricia had hurled it. "The lights are still on it," Michael O'Connor said. "So is the stand."

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:11:36 PM EDT

[#1]

Don't want possum blood in my house....get a broom and help him outside.

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:13:13 PM EDT

[#2]

Its a POSSUM. Christ, just get a big box or soemthing.

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:13:41 PM EDT

[#3]

No fear.... Just open the door and chase him out

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:17:51 PM EDT

[#4]

I am reminded of Christmas Vacation...

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:21:11 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
No fear.... Just open the door and chase him out

+1 no big deal..

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:23:43 PM EDT

[#6]

I would have dumped a mag on his ass.
j/k

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:25:58 PM EDT

[#7]

Salmon net, trip outside.

Of course, the last possum I saw (going under the neighbor's steps) was the size of a small dog - probably 28" nose to end of tail and about 16" in diameter.

The wife thought it was a dog but dogs ain't that ugly... or flexible.

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:29:21 PM EDT

[#8]

Front towards Christmas tree.

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:31:36 PM EDT

[#9]

Mais! Make a roux, cook some rice!

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:35:54 PM EDT

[#10]

I had one in my store, I had to pay $100.00 for someone to remove the monster.

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:36:57 PM EDT

[#11]

Its the damn coons' ya gotta worry about.

Posted: 12/22/2005 6:38:55 PM EDT

[#12]

I shot a rat with a 12ga, so yeah I'd bump fired a mag or two on it.

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