ENGLEWOOD, Pa. - Mary Kathleen O'Connor, 16, doing some studying for school about 6 a.m. Tuesday, said she was the first to be startled by an apparent Christmas tree stowaway.

"I'm looking at the tree and the angel just pops off," she said. "And a second later, this head just popped up. The eyes were, like, glowing. I was thinking, 'Oh my God!' And I screamed."

Other family members came running. "We looked at it and I thought it might have been a fake," said her father, Michael O'Connor, a Frackville attorney. "But then it moved its head. And I thought 'Holy Jeez. We're in trouble.'"

O'Connor called police, and William E. O'Donnell, a state Game Commission deputy wildlife conservation officer, removed an 18-inch-long opossum from the 8-foot Douglas fir the family had bought, bundled, from a dealer in Seltzer.

O'Donnell caged the animal and released it in woods about five miles away.

The tree, meanwhile, was still in the front yard where Patricia had hurled it. "The lights are still on it," Michael O'Connor said. "So is the stand." (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051223/ap_on_fe_st/stowaway_possum;_ylt=AiszSs_U6UM__88JVCq6AI8sQE4F;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl)

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

It just cracks me up that people call the cops for a wild critter. :killingme :killingme

It just cracks me up that people call the cops for a wild critter. :killingme :killingme


Reading about it is one thing, answer the call at the police station is entirely different. It is hard not to laugh or make a smirk comment.

Reading about it is one thing, answer the call at the police station is entirely different. It is hard not to laugh or make a smirk comment.


:lmao: I bet....:killingme

:lmao: I bet....:killingme


hey go get your uncle he usually eats these kinda of things

Christmas Vacation the cat and then the squirrel I am laughing just thinking about it. :killingme

Finally some good Christmas news or is that The Holiday formely Known as Christmas :lmao:

hey go get your uncle he usually eats these kinda of things

Christmas Vacation the cat and then the squirrel I am laughing just thinking about it. :killingme

Finally some good Christmas news or is that The Holiday formely Known as Christmas :lmao:


Hey now, you leave Uncle Clem out of this here discussion...:boxing:

It's funny to think they decorated it with the stinkin' opposum in it!!! :killingme

I do not believe this story. It's impossible to bring home and decorate a tree without realizing there is a possum in it. Obviously the possum got in their house and took up residence AFTER the tree was set up.

I do not believe this story. It's impossible to bring home and decorate a tree without realizing there is a possum in it. Obviously the possum got in their house and took up residence AFTER the tree was set up.

:yeahthat: Probably through the hole in the floor. :hrmph:

I do not believe this story. It's impossible to bring home and decorate a tree without realizing there is a possum in it. Obviously the possum got in their house and took up residence AFTER the tree was set up.

Its real I seen the same thing in a movie with Chevy Chase and a squirrel :smack:

Was it fluffy and pink? :confused:

Was it fluffy and pink? :confused:


:yeahthat:


:lol:

Was was fluffy and pink? :confused:

:fixed: :frown: