NationStates Jolt Archive

Damn, I am so freakin tired. Allow me to explain my experience. I live in an apartment complex and a grocery store is located right accross from it, however the people in charge of the construction decided to remove the access gate allowing easy transporation by foot from the grocery store to my home and replace it with an extremely high non-accessable fence. I had to practically walk 12 miles around the city in order to go to the store.

Our water filter was damaged(my family is disgusted by tap water) so I was chosen to take the walk. So there I was exiting the store with 8 gallons of water in individual jugs hanging from the flesh off my body, turning my fingers purple as I walked back to the complex. As I entered the security gate an opossum crossed into my path from some brush and I cought it by suprise and it tried to fucking BITE me. I kicked the fucking shit out of that opossum and made it run away. I am not fucking kidding. I was trying to stop myself from dropping the water on the groud, but I ended up dropping 2 and they splattered all over the ground.

And that's my story of the day. I am SO tired people! AGH!

I call the big one Bitey.

Then stop throwing stones at it!

I call the big one Bitey.
Ha HA HA Seldom-brake

Can we turn this into a morality/ethics exercise? That story is just wrong on so many levels...

I think the moral of the story is buy a Brita water filter.

I think the moral of the story is buy a Brita water filter.

lol, I think you're right.

did you get bit, if you go see a doc, them things got all kindas diseases.

did you get bit, if you go see a doc, them things got all kindas diseases.

Thankfully no, I kicked it's jaw before it got a chance to sink it's teeth in me. I also kicked it a few more times in the ribes and the face.

I'm sorry, I do not know this word, "opossum". Is that like "possum"?

Damn, I'm so Southern.

I'm sorry, I do not know this word, "opossum". Is that like "possum"?

Damn, I'm so Southern.

Yes it's exactly the same thing as a "possum", except most likely of a different species.

It looked like this: http://www.siu.edu/~siuctws/critters/opossum2.JPG

Yes it's exactly the same thing as a "possum", except most likely of a different species.

It looked like this: http://www.siu.edu/~siuctws/critters/opossum2.JPG
Ahh... okay. :p

Those things are abundant in Tomball (the whole Houston area, actually). There's one living in my garage...

Those things are abundant in Tomball (the whole Houston area, actually). There's one living in my garage...

Kick it's ass for me, it might be this one's cousin or something. :D

Well, it's under a huge pile of stuff, so I can't exactly get to it. I guess it feeds off the thousands of bugs and other things in the garage, because it should've died months ago!

You know what to do when you see a possum: :sniper:

Well, it's under a huge pile of stuff, so I can't exactly get to it. I guess it feeds off the thousands of bugs and other things in the garage, because it should've died months ago!

That's why there's such thing as flamethrowers! Burn that pile of stuff along with it. That should take care of it.

Maybe you should drink tap water and/or get a car or at least a bicycle

I'd love to, but that pile of crap is just a foot away from my computer!

Yes, my host computer is in my garage. It's situated by the wall so that the cords will reach inside my room. Computer outside, Monitor and other things inside.

That damn Possum/Opossum better not touch my computer...

I like opposums. I think they're cool little animals. They should be sold as pets.

Maybe you should drink tap water and/or get a car or at least a bicycle

Well the car was in use at the time, and my bicycle got run over by a truck and is currently inoperable. So I had no choice.

I like opposums. I think they're cool little animals. They should be sold as pets.

Commies they are idiots. They get so scared they faint and hiss at you. Besides who would you sell to, everyone runs them over :rolleyes:

I'd love to, but that pile of crap is just a foot away from my computer!

Yes, my host computer is in my garage. It's situated by the wall so that the cords will reach inside my room. Computer outside, Monitor and other things inside.

That damn Possum/Opossum better not touch my computer...

Exactly why you should take it out. It might mess up your computer. Stomp on the pile with cleets! do something!

Well the car was in use at the time, and my bicycle got run over by a truck and is currently inoperable. So I had no choice.

The car person should've got the things then

The car person should've got the things then

That's what I suggested but I was forced to for reasons I do not know.

One of my neighbors feeds them...

Fromtime to time my terrier Molly and I will see one going from the neighbor's carport to the woods... and man Molly wants to kill the sucker ("terrier" is French for "Earth dog" .. those little suckers are born hunters), she starts whining and pulling me with her

so as opposed to asphyxiating her by tugging on her leash to keep her in place, i sort of jog with her so she gets to "chase" the possum (using the southern slang) without really getting near it. The thing always runs away.. never fights. Of course if I let her go she'd run it down and try to kill it.

This happened with a squirrel once... "Molly, look at the squirrel. GO GET IT, MOLLY" .. I let her off her leash, the squirrel was maybe 30 feet away staring at us. I let Molly off her leash and ZOOM she goes straight for the thing, growling the whole time. Luckily for the squirrel there was a tree nearby and it got up the tree. Molly sat at the base of the tree, just whining for the squirrel to come down. I had to drag her away.

lol, Molly's a cute little bugger.

You know what to do when you see a possum: :sniper:
NO... SAVE THE POSSUM!

Interesting how I'm extremely Southern, but 1 of my parents is a vegetarian and very pro-animal rights.

that thing in the picture looks liek a nasty mother -

Yes it's exactly the same thing as a "possum", except most likely of a different species.

It looked like this: http://www.siu.edu/~siuctws/critters/opossum2.JPG That looks quite a bit different from the NZ possum.

Possums are NZ's least desirable import from Australia (Except for Australians themselves :p ). We have about 18 million of them in a country of 4 million people and they are eating up all our bush.

http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/mammals/b-possum.jpg

Damn, I am so freakin tired. Allow me to explain my experience. I live in an apartment complex and a grocery store is located right accross from it, however the people in charge of the construction decided to remove the access gate allowing easy transporation by foot from the grocery store to my home and replace it with an extremely high non-accessable fence. I had to practically walk 12 miles around the city in order to go to the store.

Our water filter was damaged(my family is disgusted by tap water) so I was chosen to take the walk. So there I was exiting the store with 8 gallons of water in individual jugs hanging from the flesh off my body, turning my fingers purple as I walked back to the complex. As I entered the security gate an opossum crossed into my path from some brush and I cought it by suprise and it tried to fucking BITE me. I kicked the fucking shit out of that opossum and made it run away. I am not fucking kidding. I was trying to stop myself from dropping the water on the groud, but I ended up dropping 2 and they splattered all over the ground.

And that's my story of the day. I am SO tired people! AGH!


LOL....Thats the funniest thing I've heard all day. I'm not laughing at you love. Its just funny how you told the story. Want me to sneak up to the fence tonight and cut it with wire cutters?

NO... SAVE THE POSSUM!

Interesting how I'm extremely Southern, but 1 of my parents is a vegetarian and very pro-animal rights.

Well as they say: Never judge a book by it's cover. Unlike that opossum who attacked me without provocation!

*dresses as an oppussom*
BOOGITY BOOGITY

LOL....Thats the funniest thing I've heard all day. I'm not laughing at you love. Its just funny how you told the story. Want me to sneak up to the fence tonight and cut it with wire cutters?

lol, yes that would be most helpful. If I were you I'd be laughing at ME, haha imagine the look on my face when it attacked me. :p

lol, yes that would be most helpful. If I were you I'd be laughing at ME, haha imagine the look on my face when it attacked me. :p


Hey babe...I'm down south with you. Georgia. The Opossums will walk right up to you and take a sandwich out of your hand if they choose....theyre mean as hell...and also dumb as hell. Ugh.

I would have loved to have seen the look on your face :eek:

Hey babe...I'm down south with you. Georgia. The Opossums will walk right up to you and take a sandwich out of your hand if they choose....theyre mean as hell...and also dumb as hell. Ugh.

I would have loved to have seen the look on your face :eek:

Gotta love the south! You should see the pigeons here in Miami, they don't care about ANYTHING. It's as if they evolved and adapted very quickly to adjust to the city. They won't even get out of the way if you walk just inches away from them. One time I was eating a cookie and about 20 of them came flying at me and just pecked it out of my hand. I think I had just seen that Alfred Hitchcock movie about the evil birds a few days before that happened lol.

Gotta love the south! You should see the pigeons here in Miami, they don't care about ANYTHING. It's as if they evolved and adapted very quickly to adjust to the city. They won't even get out of the way if you walk just inches away from them. One time I was eating a cookie and about 20 of them came flying at me and just pecked it out of my hand. I think I had just seen that Alfred Hitchcock movie about the evil birds a few days before that happened lol.

Walking on the Sea Wall in Galveston, it's as if the Pidgeons own the place. They won't get out of your way unless they feel they're going to be crushed, and even then they usually don't budge. Their brains have probably devolved over time, due to the petrochemicals in the air from neighboring Texas City :D.

Walking on the Sea Wall in Galveston, it's as if the Pidgeons own the place. They won't get out of your way unless they feel they're going to be crushed, and even then they usually don't budge. Their brains have probably devolved over time, due to the petrochemicals in the air from neighboring Texas City :D.
Oooh! I've been to Galveston! We wanted to go to Ft. Walton, Florida, but darned if that tornado or hurricane whatever it was (my memory sucks) didn't come through and screw it all up for us. We travel 14 hours straight, 'cuz my mom was like, "We are NOT stopping!" We're a very stubborn family.

I didn't like Texas so much. Whataburgers haunted me wherever I went. And now they're coming to Birmingham... *shivers.* :eek:

Gotta love the south! You should see the pigeons here in Miami, they don't care about ANYTHING. It's as if they evolved and adapted very quickly to adjust to the city. They won't even get out of the way if you walk just inches away from them. One time I was eating a cookie and about 20 of them came flying at me and just pecked it out of my hand. I think I had just seen that Alfred Hitchcock movie about the evil birds a few days before that happened lol.


omg....lol....

we have crows galore here....they are mean to my 4 dogs. They swoop down on them daily and peck them in the head. Its awful.. I wish I could get a big net and catch one and make some crow stew or crow burritos. :mad: