“It ain’t the new year until the possum drops” has been the saying around town for the past 19 years – but not anymore.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals complained that the annual tradition was illegal and cruel. So they filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.possum
A judge ruled in their favor – declaring the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission had not right to issue a permit for the event.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“It ain’t the new year until the possum drops” has been the saying around town for the past 19 years – but not anymore.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals complained that the annual tradition was illegal and cruel. So they filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.possum
A judge ruled in their favor – declaring the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission had not right to issue a permit for the event.
I imagine in that part of the country it's not uncommon to shoot and eat 'em but we can't have a live possum put in a cage, lowered from a pole, and then set free - that's just barbaric.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Your buttons are so easily pushed...And people make a lot of money by pushing them. My only regret is that i'm not making any money by doing it......id be so good at it.. I should be writing for Rush Limbaugh or FOX News or something...Maybe have my own conservative talk radio show
Only on 285Bound would we have the usual assortment of Neanderthals, wingnuts and neo-cons arguing that somehow a court interfering with their right to drop a possum is an outrage-of-the-day...