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Where I grew up in South Alabama, we used to drive through peanut fields in the winter at night and catch possums. All you have to do is put a broom handle on their neck and pick them up by the tail. Sometimes they would "sull-up", or "play possum/dead." When they did that you could just walk right up to them and pick them up by the tail. They can't bite you when they're being held like that. Then we would place the possum in a croker sack, more commonly known as a burlap bag,tie the bag closed, and take the possum and sell it. The possum must be alive when sold, so the buyer can feed it corn for a couple of weeks to clean out its system prior to eating it. Some nights we would catch half a dozen. We would take the money we made from the possum sale and go buy some beer.
That's what we did. Then I went to Law Scool.