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NC judge rules against New Year's Eve possum drop
CBS News ^ | 11-13-2012 | Martha Waggoner

Posted on 11/13/2012 2:19:21 PM PST by DOGHEAD

RALEIGH, N.C. — A possum drop that attracts thousands of people to a tiny town in western North Carolina each New Year's Eve may have had its last hurrah after a judge ruled Tuesday that a state agency didn't have the authority to issue a permit for the event.

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To: DOGHEAD

This is their tradition!!!!! If native american’s can go out and stick harpoons in an endangered specie (whale) and wait for it to bleed to death because it is therir traditional hunt, well, wo is this. The NC natives have been doing this legally for 19 years and that makes it a tradition!!!!


21 posted on 11/13/2012 2:59:51 PM PST by dirtymac (Now is the for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: Little Ray

Exactly. What kind of AUTHORITY does a judge have to say someone can’t put a freakin’ possum in a box and lower it????

When were we put under the thumb of King George again? I don’t recall EVER.


22 posted on 11/13/2012 3:00:42 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“I would prefer an attorney drop.”

You are aware that scientist have quit using white rats for lab experiments and have started using attorneys. It was explained that the were more of them, staff did not get nearly as attached to them, and there are just some things that rats wont do.


23 posted on 11/13/2012 3:03:49 PM PST by dirtymac (Now is the for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: Little Ray

Exactly. What kind of AUTHORITY does a judge have to say someone can’t put a freakin’ possum in a box and lower it????

When were we put under the thumb of King George again? I don’t recall EVER.


24 posted on 11/13/2012 3:05:05 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Little Ray

Exactly. What kind of AUTHORITY does a judge have to say someone can’t put a freakin’ possum in a box and lower it????

When were we put under the thumb of King George again? I don’t recall EVER.


25 posted on 11/13/2012 3:05:07 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: DOGHEAD
...a judge ruled Tuesday that a state agency didn't have the authority to issue a permit for the event.

OK, Judge, show me the law regarding possum drops and the need or lack of need for permits.

*No possums were harmed in the writing of this response.

26 posted on 11/13/2012 3:16:51 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: deport
The problem is that wild turkeys can’t fly very well.

Couldn't prove that by me; the the hen turkey who raised two young on our block summer before last and her brood were last seen flying from rooftop, to porch, to deck, to rooftop, to tree limb...Those little ones grew at an amazing rate!

27 posted on 11/13/2012 3:22:30 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: cripplecreek

LOL


28 posted on 11/13/2012 3:45:29 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: JimRed

Yup. Wild turkeys fly just fine.


29 posted on 11/13/2012 3:48:21 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Yup. Wild turkeys fly just fine

You should see me fly when I have Wild Turkey.

30 posted on 11/13/2012 4:51:13 PM PST by Repeat Offender (Official Romney/GOP-E Platform - We suck less)
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To: bgill
I couldn’t imagine what a possum drop could be and was having visions of the WKRP’s turkey fiasco.

same here.

maybe they should just substitute a turkey...

31 posted on 11/13/2012 10:07:23 PM PST by LadyDoc
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