Roadkill Resuscitation Unsuccessful!
– – Happy April Fool’s Day, but I swear that I am not making this up, and hope that you are not eating: State police have charged a central Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen giving mouth-to-mouth “resuscitation” to a long-dead opossum along a highway…
The incident occurred in Oliver Township about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The 55-year-old man was seen by one person kneeling before the deceased animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance, while another saw the mouth-to-mouth attempt. It’s not that this publication doesn’t appreciate the effort to save viable animals, but this was an ex-possum…
Possibly he was then planning to fit the opossum with sunglasses in hopes of pursuing some “Weekend at Bernie’s” action…
Tags: man performs mouth-to-mouth on opossum, roadkill resuscitation
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April 1, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Are they really sure it was dead? It might only have been “playing ‘possum.”
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April 2, 2010 at 12:27 am
I should have seen that one coming…
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April 2, 2010 at 2:30 pm
On a lighter note: have you ever stopped to consider how an inner-city kid might react upon attending one of those rural sleep-away camps, and seeing an opposum for the first time?
“Holy crap! And, I thought the rats in _my_ neighborhood were freaking big!”
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April 3, 2010 at 12:26 am
…and they make a darn good sandwich, too! 😉
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April 5, 2010 at 9:11 pm
I prefer to make my own; mostly pb&j.
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April 6, 2010 at 12:12 am
I still like those, too!
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