Possum tree-drinking game too trunk and disorderly for Dunedin parks

The Guardian ^ | Thursday 3 May 2012 09.28 EDT

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The wider population of Dunedin have long tolerated the bibulous habits of the many students in the city. But that patience is being strained by the emergence of a bizarre new branch of drinking game, according to reports from the southern New Zealand city.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

LOL!

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

It’s a darn shame they didn’t fall into their vomit. :(

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

I ain’t cleaning anyone’s vomit!

[blueunicorn6]

We played a version of this in college called “Pigeon”. The players would sit on the ledge of the 20th floor and drink until they fell. We tried to catch them in a net. It was a net that came fron a 10 gallon aquarium, but, hey, at least we tried. Some of them whistled like the old Stuka divebombers.

[Arrowhead1952]

All I need to hear is ‘drink’, ‘tree’, ‘fall’

I know the grackles and mocking birds get drunk eating the Nandina berries that are fermented. They fly into windows on a regular basis later in the year.

[Chode]

no trees for me, gettin too old for broken bones... falling off a barstool is about all i can handle now days

[Realman30]

Oh, well! Youths will be youths.

[Windflier]

Heh....I’ve been to parties in the country where we got so drunk, we started out on solid ground and wound up IN the trees.

[Slings and Arrows]

BFL

[Slings and Arrows]

There are dangers to playing possum:

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[rarestia]

Oh no... not saying that at all. Matter of fact, I’ve personally drank in a tree in Dunedin, FL right off of Patricia Ave.

[Tunehead54]

It’s a little difficult to drink in a palm tree...

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You have to find a live oak - their branches spread out and are great for climbing ... most other Florida trees just go straight up. As long as we're on the subject of drinking I also recommend a power boat over a sail boat - you're just bound to spill your drink coming about at some point under sail - why ruin the sunset? ;-)

[Tunehead54]

That was you? ;-)

[goseminoles]

Me too. I’ve walked shit faced on Alt 19 in 1985...

[dixiechick2000]

“Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND... NOT Dunedin, Florida.”

Well, thank you for that info.

Used to live in Dunedin.

I couldn’t imagine this with all of the raisins who inhabit Dunedin. lol

[dixiechick2000]

That’s a Maori?

LOLOL!

That’s too funny!

I spent a little time in the Cooks.
That’s a Maori, too. ;o)

[dixiechick2000]

Maori’s inhabit several countries in the South Pacific.

All of those countries are down under compared to the USA.

[dixiechick2000]

Given that...

“The online Urban Dictionary defines possum as a “drinking game in which players have to sit in a tree, like possums, and consume a pack of 24 beers [typically 350ml units in New Zealand] until they fall out of the tree from drunkenness”.

...and knowing the population of Dunedin, I don’t think so. ;o)

When I lived there, they might have consumed a case of beer, and fallen off of their tricycles. lol

[dixiechick2000]

I don’t know anything about javelinas. Will honey badgers do?

I totally understand the “hold mah beer” thing, tho’.

[dixiechick2000]

Yeeeeah!

(Down under for “yes”)

;o)