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"ponette" |
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23 Dec 2005 11:03:04 AM |
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OT--Christmas Tree Opossum Surprises Pa. Teen |
ENGLEWOOD, Pa. (AP) - 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."
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| User: "sugaree" |
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| Title: Re: OT--Christmas Tree Opossum Surprises Pa. Teen |
23 Dec 2005 12:24:04 PM |
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"ponette" <ponette0000@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:g6boq1ti4e98skblc4osmfbkv9s5bu8rl3@4ax.com...
ENGLEWOOD, Pa. (AP) - 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."
I had possums living in my attic when I lived in the Bay Area-creepy hearing
them up there. No one would put traps up there, so i learned to live with it
every winter
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| User: "Alan Harding" |
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| Title: Re: OT--Christmas Tree Opossum Surprises Pa. Teen |
23 Dec 2005 03:14:46 PM |
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In message <g6boq1ti4e98skblc4osmfbkv9s5bu8rl3@4ax.com>, ponette
<ponette0000@yahoo.com> writes
ENGLEWOOD, Pa. (AP) - 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."
It has to be asked, who is Patricia that does caber tossing?
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