Subject: Re: Re. 'Possums
Date: Jul 10 09:25:21 1995
From: Don Baccus - donb at Rational.COM


Jon:
> Don't forget. The ground-foraging, egg-eating opossum (had to get in the
> bird reference) is protected from swerving cars in Lacey, Washington -
> although the case was finally dropped, the city spent a bit of money (and
> received a lot of media in return) to persue a case of cruelty to animals
> when a carload of local kids "appeared" to swerve to dispatch the
> Virginian Didelphis. The local enforcement officer and her prosecuting
> attorney were very serious about this flagrant infringement of the
> critters' rights.

Yes, I saw the article awhile back and, indeed, it helped trigger
my remembrence of the "please don't try and avoid the possums"
request of the Clackamas County pest control folks in my youth.

The bumper sticker reference is great...

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>