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D-train riders surprised when opossum hitches ride
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ^ | January 18 2012 | Nina Mandell

Posted on 01/19/2012 3:21:25 AM PST by EinNYC

Early morning commuters had a furry surprise on their trip into Manhattan last week.

Riders on a Manhattan-bound D train had to evacuate the car at around 4:30 a.m. on Friday morning after someone spotted the adorable — yet possibly dangerous — opossum taking a free ride, an MTA spokesman confirmed.

The incident was first reported by the New York Times.

The four-legged creature reportedly boarded the train at Coney Island in Brooklyn. The train was first stopped at West Fourth Street, where police officers came on with gloves to try to get the opossum out. When that didn't work, animal control officers had to come in to remove it.

An MTA spokesman said he didn't know of any other incidents where an opossum had hitched a ride with the MTA.



TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: opossum; possum
Just another day in the Big Apple, where folks walk down the street occasionally with a huge snake on their shoulder, red tailed hawks occupy multi-million dollar real estate and two-legged animals occupy Zuccotti Park.
1 posted on 01/19/2012 3:21:34 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC
Ha ha ha.....and two-legged animals occupy Zuccotti Park.
2 posted on 01/19/2012 3:25:32 AM PST by mckenzie7 (Democrats = Trough Sloppers!)
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To: EinNYC

I betcha folks thought the fuzzball was just a big rat.


3 posted on 01/19/2012 3:27:23 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: EinNYC
spotted the adorable

She's obviously never encountered one while putting junk in her outside garbage can at night........

4 posted on 01/19/2012 3:33:08 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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To: EinNYC

5 posted on 01/19/2012 3:33:12 AM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: EinNYC

6 posted on 01/19/2012 3:44:32 AM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: EinNYC

Another fare jumper. If Bernie Goetz had been on that car, he might have had it for dinner.


7 posted on 01/19/2012 3:59:57 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: EinNYC

'I call the big one bitey!'

8 posted on 01/19/2012 4:10:31 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: EinNYC

Myself and Mr. Spacely....circa 1978

9 posted on 01/19/2012 4:18:33 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: EinNYC
<"someone spotted the adorable — yet possibly dangerous..."

There's nothing "dangerous" about a possum. They're the only animal nearly immune to rabies, and would rather "die" than fight. Bless her little heart. Send her on back to Virginia. She can meet up with the big Ol' boy that took up residence under my garage this summer. Must weigh in close to 20 lbs., and makes a good mouser.
10 posted on 01/19/2012 4:30:07 AM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: EinNYC

Opossum’s are vermin, I doubt they can compete with the giant rats both two legged and four in the city however.


11 posted on 01/19/2012 4:36:04 AM PST by dog breath
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To: EinNYC

My wife and I were riding the NY Subway down to Coney Island when we made a stop above ground. The doors opened and nobody was on the platform. A pigeon, however, flew into the car with us and took the 20 minute ride down to Coney Island.

When we reached the final stop, the pigeon flew out like it actually knew where it was going.

Hilarious!

Of course, the real reason was the pigeon was looking for food dropped on the floor of the subway car by other passengers.

But liberals will tell us that a new pipeline will disrupt animal life.


12 posted on 01/19/2012 4:57:55 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
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To: PowderMonkey

>> There’s nothing “dangerous” about a possum. They’re the only animal nearly immune to rabies <<

My county health department told me exactly the same thing when my dogs caught and killed one in the backyard. I volunteered to bring it in for testing, but they said not to bother. Just put it in a plastic bag for the next trash pick up.

(But they said that if the poor creature had been a coon or fox, my dogs would need to be quaranteened.)


13 posted on 01/19/2012 6:52:24 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Erik Latranyi

I grew up in Coney Island. There were things that came out after dark that would make Marlin Perkins take notice.


14 posted on 01/19/2012 6:54:38 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Most Conservative in the Primary, the Republican Nominee in the General.)
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To: EinNYC

Them possums be tricky rascals. I’ll bet this one had a forged ticket. You can still trip them up. Ask him if he’s taking the subway to the Statue of Liberty. If he say yes, then you know he’s a possum and not a New York rat. If he say no, he might still be a possum cause they is big liars. I heared a noise out back one night, and I shines a light up the tree, and there sits Mr. possum and I asks him, “Possum, what you doin’ up there?” And he say, “Lookin’ through my new telescope at the stars.”
They is dirty little liars. He was peepin through Miss Julie’s window.


15 posted on 01/19/2012 7:21:55 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: EinNYC

Too bad it didn’t bite a chunk out of Bloomies butt!


16 posted on 01/19/2012 1:01:31 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Bloombutt is singularly the person I hate most in this world. He has caused me and many of my colleagues unbelievable misery as teachers. We have been actively harassed, threatened, fined, brought up on false charges, run out of schools, etc. as part of his asinine “school reform” project, wherein he blindly flails about without a clue, ruining dedicated peoples’ careers left and right. I would have loved the opossum to have bitten off his entire face, a la the chimp who did that to a woman.


17 posted on 01/19/2012 7:34:19 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Bloombutt is singularly the person I hate most in this world. He has caused me and many of my colleagues unbelievable misery as teachers. We have been actively harassed, threatened, fined, brought up on false charges, run out of schools, etc. as part of his asinine “school reform” project, wherein he blindly flails about without a clue, ruining dedicated peoples’ careers left and right. I would have loved the opossum to have bitten off his entire face, a la the chimp who did that to a woman.


18 posted on 01/19/2012 7:35:08 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC
You aren't going to change things by staying there. Take your knowledge and your skills and leave. By remaining there and supporting the system you are enabling Bloomberg and his cohorts.

Culture does exist outside the large urban areas, leaving a place like NYC does not mean leaving civilization, it means the opposite.

19 posted on 01/19/2012 7:48:18 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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