The damn things will HISS when cornered, too.
The damn things will HISS when cornered, too.
poopshovel wrote: My buddy's dad claims he saw one crawl out of a dead cow's shiny happy person once. Probably bullE36 M3, but the image stuck with me.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was true.
poopshovel wrote: We used to feed the poor scraggly kitty that the E36 M3 head worthless ass piece of E36 M3 neighbors across the street "owned." We had to stop when we started getting a FAMILY of berkeleying possums on the deck. The first time I caught them out there, I'd try gently shewing them away with a broom. berkeleyers WOULD NOT MOVE, so I smacked 'em with the broom...a little harder...a little harder. Had to corral the berkeleying things down the stairs and they moved SLOOOOOOW. After a few times doing this, I'd wait till they were at the bottom of the stairs (15 feet or so) and pop 'em with the pellet gun. Nothin. So I started giving the gun a couple more pumps. Still nothin. It got to the point where I didn't berkeley around with the broom anymore. I'd pump that berkeleyer a dozen times and pop 'em in the ass at 3'. According to Daisy that's in the neighborhood of 750 FPS. That lit a fire under 'em, and they stopped coming back. I would've just killed 'em with the shotgun but I didn't want to have to touch their filthy berkeleying carcasses. My buddy's dad claims he saw one crawl out of a dead cow's shiny happy person once. Probably bullE36 M3, but the image stuck with me. Nasty motherberkeleyers.
You do know these things freeze up/play dead when they are scared right?
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA7ebU-C_lI
That's why they refuse to move. It has to be the worst defense mechanism in the world, and is probably why so may of these things get splattered on the road. I've always considered this, and the platypus, and the growth of Walmart proof that Darwin was full of E36 M3.
Had my dog bring one into our brick courtyard after mauling it pretty badly. Damn thing wouldnt move; just sit and hiss at us so that evening, I tried a few .38 rounds which would just pass right thru him and then riccoche off the bricks. Damn thing just continued to hiss at us and I didnt want to wait until it bled out(and try to keep the dog at bay). Finally went out to the truck and got the .357 sig with hollow points. One shot and he was history.
I've had one rather large coon that took 25rds of .22LR and 2 .380 hollow points before it went down........Some say that one had gotten some PCP from that drug dealing mouse, others think it was wearing a bullet proof vest, idk for sure. 
The possum defense mechanisim is hillarious........I never participated in this, but friends in Evansville used to go out with trucks, hit them in the road(they're tough and that normally won't kill em), and then had a few guys in the back with baseball bats that'd go to town on it. 
Curmudgeon wrote: The damn things will HISS when cornered, too.
Had one in an attic that went berkeleying ballistic like that. I had to do the old PVC/rope noose on him. That was some scary berkeleying E36 M3 trying to get down a set of rickety ass stairs with that thing hissing and struggling. They don't play dead with a noose around their neck.
But yeah, the family of them never did E36 M3. No hissing, certainly no "charging." Just laid there and got the E36 M3 beat out of 'em.
93EXCivic wrote: I found a possum in an old Midget once.
That just sounds wrong. Especially after the cow reference.
codrus wrote: You know, an opossum is a marsupial, not a rodent... :)
Interviewer; So Mr. Walken I hear you have a new movie coming out.
Christopher Walken; Santa Clause never scared me!
Interviewer; UHH?
Christopher Walken; Marsupials do...
Interviewer; Uh OK?
Christopher Walken; ...cause there Faasst!
I was once looking for my cat after dark, using a flashlight to spot eyeballs. Spotted a glowing pair of eyes in a low tree branch, and went and stood under it to help the cat down. Turned out to be a possum, and he didn't want any help out of the tree.
Had one show up on my front porch one night. Tried shooing him and he just turned and hissed at me. Not so luckily for him I had come home from a paintball tournament that day. My gear was sitting next to the front closet waiting to be cleaned, so I slapped a tank onto the marker, dropped a hopper full of paint in, and went back out. First shot got him moving, didn't hit em, just shot the board behind his rear. He stopped at the landing and hissed again.... big mistake, ever heard a paintball gun go off at 13.5 shots a second? Never seen a possum move so fast in my life, came in giggling a little bit. My wife asked if it was necessary. Nah but it was highly amusing.
You needed marbles.....
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