Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Possum Population Boom

Brooklyn had a rat problem. So what did the city government decide to do? Introduce possums to eat the rats! Unfortunately...
Not only do wily rats continue to thrive, but the opossums have become their own epidemic, with bands of the conniving creatures sauntering through yards, plundering garbage cans and noshing on fruit trees.
As for the human population, "some Brooklynites have become terrified to go into their yards at night."

Thus did municipal error
lead to marsupial terror.

2 comments:

Charlie McDanger said...

Why oh why did I swallow that fly?

Bring on the wolves.

John Enright said...

Yes, I thought of that "swallow that fly" song too!

Wolves in Brooklyn! They will definitely take on possums. Heck, my 2 labradors kill a possum now and then, no problem.