movetheboat
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big night tonight...star wars 3d....living on the edge here
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JackPrintMD
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I got home around the same time. Went to dinner at Milleridge inn, it was nice.
Yaphank??
JackPrintMD
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Me too, the only thing keeping me awake is the dogs from next door visiting.
JackPrintMD
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Ahhhh got ya thats far awy
JackPrintMD
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HNY
movetheboat
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New Year’s Possum Drop canceled by North Carolina town
By LAUREN THEISEN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 31, 2019 | 7:38 PM
A North Carolina community’s tradition of dropping a live opossum on New Year’s Eve—a self-described “redneck response” to the Times Square ball drop—has reached its end this New Year’s. (ernie decker/Getty Images/iStockphoto)
A North Carolina community’s tradition of dropping a live opossum on New Year’s Eve — a self-described “redneck response” to the Times Square ball drop — has reached its end this New Year’s.
Started in 1990 by a man named Clay Logan in Brasstown, N.C. to give his town something fun to do at the end of the year, the tradition was moved to the nearby Andrews, N.C., last year when Logan decided he could no longer run things. But after the new town took over, only one opossum was dropped before the mayor put the brakes on annually lowering a marsupial in a plexiglass box.
James Reid told the Wall Street Journal that he was sick of the outrage around the event, and also noted that last year the opossum developed an infection where it got caught in a trap.
“In hindsight, maybe I made a mistake,” Reid said of the previous Possum Drop. “Times are changing. Our plan is to have an awesome party and not have any live animals involved whatsoever.”
Unsurprisingly, the Possum Drop attracted plenty of opponents throughout its existence, most notably the animal rights group PETA, which has filed multiple lawsuits against the event. They’ve claimed that the bright lights, relatively big crowds, and loud fireworks are all distressing to the opossum, which is nocturnal.
But even though they won victories in court, other supporters have pushed to preserve the Drop, including politicians in the state legislature, who passed a law in 2015 exempting Virginia opossums from wildlife protections between Dec. 29 and Jan. 2.
Here’s footage of the event from 2010’s New Year’s Eve, to help you decide the level of cruelty for yourself:
The town of Andrews, instead, will feature a “womanless beauty pageant” and a wrestling match as part of its end-of-year festivities. But if anyone is particularly set on seeing some kind of opossum succumb to gravity, there is somehow a very similar tradition every year in Tallapoosa, Ga. The catch? This one was started by taxidermists, and their opossum is stuffed.
YEAH....move south!!! lol
By LAUREN THEISEN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 31, 2019 | 7:38 PM
A North Carolina community’s tradition of dropping a live opossum on New Year’s Eve—a self-described “redneck response” to the Times Square ball drop—has reached its end this New Year’s. (ernie decker/Getty Images/iStockphoto)
A North Carolina community’s tradition of dropping a live opossum on New Year’s Eve — a self-described “redneck response” to the Times Square ball drop — has reached its end this New Year’s.
Started in 1990 by a man named Clay Logan in Brasstown, N.C. to give his town something fun to do at the end of the year, the tradition was moved to the nearby Andrews, N.C., last year when Logan decided he could no longer run things. But after the new town took over, only one opossum was dropped before the mayor put the brakes on annually lowering a marsupial in a plexiglass box.
James Reid told the Wall Street Journal that he was sick of the outrage around the event, and also noted that last year the opossum developed an infection where it got caught in a trap.
“In hindsight, maybe I made a mistake,” Reid said of the previous Possum Drop. “Times are changing. Our plan is to have an awesome party and not have any live animals involved whatsoever.”
Unsurprisingly, the Possum Drop attracted plenty of opponents throughout its existence, most notably the animal rights group PETA, which has filed multiple lawsuits against the event. They’ve claimed that the bright lights, relatively big crowds, and loud fireworks are all distressing to the opossum, which is nocturnal.
But even though they won victories in court, other supporters have pushed to preserve the Drop, including politicians in the state legislature, who passed a law in 2015 exempting Virginia opossums from wildlife protections between Dec. 29 and Jan. 2.
Here’s footage of the event from 2010’s New Year’s Eve, to help you decide the level of cruelty for yourself:
The town of Andrews, instead, will feature a “womanless beauty pageant” and a wrestling match as part of its end-of-year festivities. But if anyone is particularly set on seeing some kind of opossum succumb to gravity, there is somehow a very similar tradition every year in Tallapoosa, Ga. The catch? This one was started by taxidermists, and their opossum is stuffed.
YEAH....move south!!! lol
JackPrintMD
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R7 would love that but with porkypines.
Who is Ames?
Oops The Mrs. ?
Ok makes more sense now Why is she getting an inspection today?
JackPrintMD
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nice, had that with lunch today.
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