Saturday, March 27, 2010

This Morning's Extremely Important News From Pittsburgh.

"Police said a man will be charged with public drunkenness after witnesses saw him attempting mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a road-killed opossum."

7 comments:

Eric said...

I hope PETA steps up to defend this hero from the oppressive police state Pennsylvania is seemingly turning into: a dead animal has rights! I'll bet if those cops had seen a drunk man skinning the opossum for it's beautiful, beautiful pelt to make a coat of it, they wouldn't have arrested him on some kind of obvious pretext and the coat would have ended up on the cover of a fashion magazine. But a man tries to revive a beautiful dead creature, and they're all about accusing him of public drunkenness. Bastards!

WendyB_09 said...

I dunno...

down here in the South roadkill is an acceptable food source...as long as you saw the license plate number of vehicle that hit it.

shellibi: when something that smells a little fishy needs an alibi

Nathan said...

...as long as you saw the license plate number of vehicle that hit it?

WTF!??!!!?!

SRSLY?

(And are you saying the guy might have just been having a late night case of the munchies?)

WendyB_09 said...

Well, maybe he was homesick for a meal like mama used to scrape up?

Besides, you want to make sure you're getting fresh varmint, especially in the summer...

Actually, I can't take credit for the license-plate line, but for the life of me I can't remember where it came from. There was also a Roadkill Cafe poster that was popular a few years ago.

Random Michelle K said...

Eric, even BABY possums are horrifically ugly.

And it's legal in WV to take road kill--when my brother was 16 and hit a deer and totaled his car, the first guy on the scene took the deer--after asking if my brother wanted it.

MWT said...

Ahh, Roadkill Cafe. You kill it, we grill it. ;) It was also a popular tshirt/sweatshirt for a while.

John the Scientist said...

Mmmmmmm. Possum!

It's what's for dinner!