Possum As Monkey (Wrench)
October 15th, 2008 by abinion
Admit it, they’re cute
A single possum didn’t bring the city of Bremerton to a screeching halt, but it did break city hall’s garage door.
On Tuesday night, locking up after a City Council district
meeting, Night Concierge Jay
Maloney and a fellow employee were trying to figure out what had
unhinged the garage door to city hall’s garage.
The gate would clearly need to be fixed, important parts were out of whack, which has happened before.
They fiddled with it until they could see up into the cogs and sprockets.
“Sure enough, there was a possum up there,” Maloney said.
The possum returned to earth in front of them, and it didn’t move. They were sure it was dead.
“Wait a minute, this thing is still alive.”
They nudged the marsupial, and it appeared it might have a broken leg. Then, to their horror, some sort of liquid puddled beneath him, and they thought the possum was bleeding.
No, Maloney said, the possum was just expressing its fear in a very deeply felt way.
Then the possum left.
“He just took off.”
The machine guts of the gate have been broken before, and Maloney thinks the possum probably, inadvertently, broke them again.
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October 16th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Maybe the city can blame the possums for its budget deficit.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I don’t know about budget deficits, but certainly cat food deficits. We had one walk into our house one morning,cool as dammit, and help itself to the cat food under the table in our kitchen. After dancing around in my pajamas and yelling ick! gross! and other things probably not appropriate for a family newspaper, we tried to poking it with a stick (bravery is obviously not our strong suit) to get it to leave. Nope, went into a dead faint (the possum not me) and we ended up using a snow shovel to encourage it on it’s way. What about the cats you may ask. They sat by and watched with amused expressions, obviously unconcerned about the whole business.
Cute? I think not!