Playing Possum...

Headline:  The Cherokee Scout

Beware of "crispy ear"...

"PETA Files New Petition

To Stop Possum Drop"

Mountain folks...

"People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on Tuesday filed a formal petition with the N.C. Wildlife Commission calling for revocation of a permit for the annual New Year's Eve "Possum Drop" in Brasstown, North Carolina."

"The 156-page petition claims to be supported by sworn affidavits from North America's leading opossum experts and five veterinarians with more than 125 years of combined experience in caring for more than 14,000 opossums."

N.C.'s version of Times Square...
lowered (gently), then released...
Don't ask me why?

"According to the experts' sworn affidavits, the stress of capture, combined with the deafening noise and bright lights of New Year's Eve, is so severe that the opossums almost certainly suffer from capture myopathy [shock, stiffness, muscle cramps] and dermal septic necrosis [ better known as "crispy ear"!] and likely die a slow, extremely painful death within days or even hours of release following the event."

As with all things bizarre, there is an opposing opinion...

... and as you might expect he doesn't much cotton to folks who've been "foolin' around" with 14,000 possums!  In fact, it probably is giving him a case of expert myopathy....  

Naw!

                         

Well, if you really didn't know what to do this New Year's Eve, tell your better half to drop everything 'cause you've got big plans for just the two of you in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina...             

Drop on by if you can !

(Have a great weekend!)