I don’t think this little fella was playing possum, I think he was working a branding message for a new line of Possum Soda. I think the can tells the story!
JOHNSON CITY, N.Y. (AP) — A baby opossum’s instinct to play dead evidently didn’t help matters after it got wedged inside a soda machine at a Binghamton-area fitness club. The animal ran into the Court Jester Athletic Club in Johnson City and scurried behind a soda machine in the front vestibule Wednesday evening.
The club’s assistant manager called police after she realized the critter was stuck inside, hanging upside down in a compartment below the soda dispenser.
A police officer tried to pull it from the bottom of the machine, but it was lodged in place and making no apparent move to escape. About a half hour later, another employee arrived with a key for the machine, the front panel was opened and the animal rescued. The officer released it in a nearby cemetery.
Information from: The Press and Sun-Bulletin of Binghamton, http://www.pressconnects.com
