Police: Drunk Pa. Man Tried To ‘Revive’ Opossum
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa.
State police have charged a central Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen giving mouth-to-mouth “resuscitation” to a long-dead opossum along a highway.
Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal along Route 36 in Oliver Township Thursday about 3 p.m. The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance, while another saw the mouth-to-mouth attempt.
Levier says Wolfe was “extremely intoxicated” and “did have his mouth in the area of the animal’s mouth, I guess.”
Oliver Township is about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Wolfe should, when he sobers up, be grateful that the possum he was trying to revive was extremely dead. A live possum is not a gentle creature given to gratitude for the attention of humans.
Quite a few animals are not gentle and kind when approached or touched. That is the problem with all the animated cartoons that picture animals as being cute and/or cuddly friendly beings.
It could be worse. I’ve read about an Australian beach that was closed off when a dying whale beached itself there. Sharks came in to feed on the whale (it was still partly in the water). The locals were trying to swim out to PET THE SHARKS.
They should make whatever he was drinking illegal! lol
1) A LOT of Darwin Awards are “alcohol involved”.
2) What does a Redneck say when he is about to die?
“HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS!”