Publicity Stunts

Is nothing sacred?

"People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals took a small North Carolina community to court Thursday in an attempt to stop them from carrying out their two decade-long New Year’s tradition: lowering a live opossum in a Plexiglas box from a pole. (As the event’s organizers put it:  'If New York can drop a ball and Atlanta can drop a peach, then we can lower a possum.')"

Can the opposition
really be stopping
the noble New Year's tradition
of possum dropping?