That is bizarre.

Tarkus: What's a possum doing in a casino? I'll never know.

They should have explained that. Did he bring the possum with him?

Looks like that marsupial's no longer...

*puts on sunglasses*

...playing possum.

_{/yyyyyyyeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhh}

slams possum onto table and kills it

...but how do they know?

Stabone33: slams possum onto table and kills it

...but how do they know?

Exactly, it might be playing, you know....something

Stabone33: slams possum onto table and kills it

...but how do they know?

Exactly It might be


Playing possum

What a crappy thing to do

"I've been known to be drunk in my past on numerous occasions but I don't go around slamming possums into tables."

Comedy gold.

Who would commit such a horrendous act in the city of Townsville?

Are you sure it's dead? It could, you know....

Dead possum sketch.

Chruchy La Femme, Albert the Alligator, and Howland Owl is gon' git revenge!

I, too, have lost some fights with Patron

This is what happens when you bet your entire life savings on a single hand of Casino War.

Big money
Big money
Big muuuunhh.

What's the number one reason, for a day off work in Australia?

I think this person's head should be slammed into a table a few times. Just to see if he likes it. He probably won't.

From TFA:

"RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty understands a man on the VIP balcony of Townsville's Jupiter's Casino picked up one of the possums that frequents the area by the tail and slammed it onto a table, killing it"

what the fark kind of casino features possums that "frequent the area"?!?!!

He hit his flush.

OK, seriously?

It's a farking POSSUM. Those things are like rats, it doesn't matter how you kill them, poison, traps, bullets, running them over, whatever. A slam into a table seems pretty reasonable, except it's probably some kind of health code violation. But the damn thing shouldn't have been indoors in the first place.

Maybe he was on a heater.

bonediddly123: From TFA:

"RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty understands a man on the VIP balcony of Townsville's Jupiter's Casino picked up one of the possums that frequents the area by the tail and slammed it onto a table, killing it"

what the fark kind of casino features possums that "frequent the area"?!?!!

An Australian one. They also have kangaroos serving drinks.

Eat more possum!

Poor possum. They may be ugly, but that animal didn't deserve that. :/

maybe he lost everything and he knew that he would need something to eat that night. kill yer own food and all.

PUT IT ALL ON RED. *splat*

Southern Possum Recipe:

Nail head of possum to a board, just a little larger than the possum. Skin it. Make paste of lard, salt, pepper and rub over entire possum. Fill cavity with onions, garlic, chopped parsley and celery leaves. Place possum and board on rack in roasting pan. Lay 5 strips of bacon across breast. Add water and mushrooms. Add water as needed. Surround the possum with sweet taters. Leave uncovered.
Bake in oven (300 to 350 degrees) until tender. Baste every 15 minutes. To determine when done, pull leg away from body. When done, throw away the possum and taters and eat the board.

bonediddly123: From TFA:

what the fark kind of casino features possums that "frequent the area"?!?!!


Perhaps "possum" is Aussie for "prostitute". I'm pretty sure that 'slamming a possum' is a euphemism for something.

At least it wasn't an opossum. That would have been animal cruelty.

It was at the blackjack table and to be truthful, the possum said, "Hit me."

/austrian possum enjoys kipping on his back
// it's not like he's joined the bleeding choir invisible!

Diogenes: "I've been known to be drunk in my past on numerous occasions but I don't go around slamming possums into tables."

Truer words....

Now read it using Paul Hogan's accent.

trappedspirit: At least it wasn't an opossum. That would have been animal cruelty.

Opossums are nuisance animals just about everywhere in the US, meaning you can kill them pretty much however you want. There are usually some regulations with regards to trapping though. However since this is australia, I doubt the laws are the same.

The Possums in North America are just giant rats. Disgusting, disease spreading, giant rats. They got dead soulless eyes, black like a doll. And when they bite you, and that high pitched screaming starts, and the water turns red, their black eyes roll over white.

/wait, think I got something mixed up there.

DarkVader: OK, seriously?

It's a farking POSSUM. Those things are like rats, it doesn't matter how you kill them, poison, traps, bullets, running them over, whatever. A slam into a table seems pretty reasonable, except it's probably some kind of health code violation. But the damn thing shouldn't have been indoors in the first place.

Excuse me...

The article said this happened on the BALCONY of the casino's VIP area.

///Balconies are usually outside...

So the police are on the lookout for a serial possum crusher?

American Decency Association: bonediddly123: From TFA:

"RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty understands a man on the VIP balcony of Townsville's Jupiter's Casino picked up one of the possums that frequents the area by the tail and slammed it onto a table, killing it"

what the fark kind of casino features possums that "frequent the area"?!?!!

in Australia, despite what some people think, we do not ride kangaroos in the streets.

we do however have an abundance of possums and most homes, at least on occasion, play host to them as they tightrope their way around the neighborhood on the power-lines.

and they can be quite cheeky if they old and wise enough. i was at war with one female in a house i moved into who would simply rummage through our rubbish bins every night. after weeks of throwing objects and generally trying to scare her i just gave up. one evening not long after that, she sprinted across our outside deck and used my knee as a lauchpad to get onto our balcony rail. utter fearlessness and she had the battle scars to prove it.

this douchebag could have had his hand/arm/face shredded if he had tangled with the wrong critter.

Yeah, they're Aussie raccoons. Unfortunately in the states, possums are just less friendly, less smart, but just as obnoxious raccoons. And they'll farking eat anything, like a goddamn goat. I had to chase one out of the bottom of my gas grill because it was licking out the grease can when I went to make dinner tonight. Scared the hell out of me.

Lsherm: American Decency Association: bonediddly123: From TFA:

"RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty understands a man on the VIP balcony of Townsville's Jupiter's Casino picked up one of the possums that frequents the area by the tail and slammed it onto a table, killing it"

what the fark kind of casino features possums that "frequent the area"?!?!!

in Australia, despite what some people think, we do not ride kangaroos in the streets.

we do however have an abundance of possums and most homes, at least on occasion, play host to them as they tightrope their way around the neighborhood on the power-lines.

and they can be quite cheeky if they old and wise enough. i was at war with one female in a house i moved into who would simply rummage through our rubbish bins every night. after weeks of throwing objects and generally trying to scare her i just gave up. one evening not long after that, she sprinted across our outside deck and used my knee as a lauchpad to get onto our balcony rail. utter fearlessness and she had the battle scars to prove it.

this douchebag could have had his hand/arm/face shredded if he had tangled with the wrong critter.

Yeah, they're Aussie raccoons. Unfortunately in the states, possums are just less friendly, less smart, but just as obnoxious raccoons. And they'll farking eat anything, like a goddamn goat. I had to chase one out of the bottom of my gas grill because it was licking out the grease can when I went to make dinner tonight. Scared the hell out of me.

Opossums look scary and mean as hell when they hiss (hello mouth like a gator) and show their teeth but are very submissive creatures.
BUT are actually in my experience, much safer to grab then say a rat that will bite you, not only bite you but hold on and thrash its little body like a pit bull on crack.

I missed HOW the creature got into the casino. If the guy brought it in then it was his to kill as long as he did it humanely.
( perhaps the casino had a fit and the guy slammed it dead because he didn't want to leave because he brought it in)

I despise animal cruelty BUT it sounds like the possum didn't suffer.
If he smacked it hard enouhg to kill it right away then no charges should be brought. Certainly a better death then poisoning.

I say this as someone who rescued an adolescent possum from my parents bathroom, bout the size of a 7 week old kitten.
(by the way they smell bad all the time no matter what)

I taught it to find food and released it.
It never got tame enough to not hiss and open its mouth at me but never bit me.

I worked at a vet clinic and a vet had one, she left it while on vacation.
It shiat in it's kennel and I lost the draw and had to take the full grown beast out to move it.
Under its kennel was a big dog. The possum wrapped it tail around the dogs kennel bars in response to the dog going nuts over it. I held it struggled to get its strong tail unattached, while the dog bit on it.
Unlike a cat I was 100% unharmed.

In the end it is just a possum and people find much more inhumane ways to legally kill them then smash them dead on impact.

redmid17: Lsherm: American Decency Association: bonediddly123: From TFA:

"RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty understands a man on the VIP balcony of Townsville's Jupiter's Casino picked up one of the possums that frequents the area by the tail and slammed it onto a table, killing it"

what the fark kind of casino features possums that "frequent the area"?!?!!

in Australia, despite what some people think, we do not ride kangaroos in the streets.

we do however have an abundance of possums and most homes, at least on occasion, play host to them as they tightrope their way around the neighborhood on the power-lines.

and they can be quite cheeky if they old and wise enough. i was at war with one female in a house i moved into who would simply rummage through our rubbish bins every night. after weeks of throwing objects and generally trying to scare her i just gave up. one evening not long after that, she sprinted across our outside deck and used my knee as a lauchpad to get onto our balcony rail. utter fearlessness and she had the battle scars to prove it.

this douchebag could have had his hand/arm/face shredded if he had tangled with the wrong critter.

Yeah, they're Aussie raccoons. Unfortunately in the states, possums are just less friendly, less smart, but just as obnoxious raccoons. And they'll farking eat anything, like a goddamn goat. I had to chase one out of the bottom of my gas grill because it was licking out the grease can when I went to make dinner tonight. Scared the hell out of me.

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Oh Fark off. The bottom of the grill is enclosed and when that thing started going nuts after I fired the grill up, it jumped out in a hurry. They're a little bit bigger than your standard mouse, you know.

Lsherm: redmid17: Lsherm: American Decency Association: bonediddly123: From TFA:

"RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty understands a man on the VIP balcony of Townsville's Jupiter's Casino picked up one of the possums that frequents the area by the tail and slammed it onto a table, killing it"

what the fark kind of casino features possums that "frequent the area"?!?!!

in Australia, despite what some people think, we do not ride kangaroos in the streets.

we do however have an abundance of possums and most homes, at least on occasion, play host to them as they tightrope their way around the neighborhood on the power-lines.

and they can be quite cheeky if they old and wise enough. i was at war with one female in a house i moved into who would simply rummage through our rubbish bins every night. after weeks of throwing objects and generally trying to scare her i just gave up. one evening not long after that, she sprinted across our outside deck and used my knee as a lauchpad to get onto our balcony rail. utter fearlessness and she had the battle scars to prove it.

this douchebag could have had his hand/arm/face shredded if he had tangled with the wrong critter.

Yeah, they're Aussie raccoons. Unfortunately in the states, possums are just less friendly, less smart, but just as obnoxious raccoons. And they'll farking eat anything, like a goddamn goat. I had to chase one out of the bottom of my gas grill because it was licking out the grease can when I went to make dinner tonight. Scared the hell out of me.

[sexandthesingledad.com image 448x260]

Oh Fark off. The bottom of the grill is enclosed and when that thing started going nuts after I fired the grill up, it jumped out in a hurry. They're a little bit bigger than your standard mouse, you know.

You'll have to go to your local government entity to apply for the sex change. You can make it permanent with some medication and a trip to Thailand.

redmid17: Lsherm: redmid17: Lsherm: American Decency Association: bonediddly123: From TFA:

"RSPCA spokesman Michael Beatty understands a man on the VIP balcony of Townsville's Jupiter's Casino picked up one of the possums that frequents the area by the tail and slammed it onto a table, killing it"

what the fark kind of casino features possums that "frequent the area"?!?!!

in Australia, despite what some people think, we do not ride kangaroos in the streets.

we do however have an abundance of possums and most homes, at least on occasion, play host to them as they tightrope their way around the neighborhood on the power-lines.

and they can be quite cheeky if they old and wise enough. i was at war with one female in a house i moved into who would simply rummage through our rubbish bins every night. after weeks of throwing objects and generally trying to scare her i just gave up. one evening not long after that, she sprinted across our outside deck and used my knee as a lauchpad to get onto our balcony rail. utter fearlessness and she had the battle scars to prove it.

this douchebag could have had his hand/arm/face shredded if he had tangled with the wrong critter.

Yeah, they're Aussie raccoons. Unfortunately in the states, possums are just less friendly, less smart, but just as obnoxious raccoons. And they'll farking eat anything, like a goddamn goat. I had to chase one out of the bottom of my gas grill because it was licking out the grease can when I went to make dinner tonight. Scared the hell out of me.

[sexandthesingledad.com image 448x260]

Oh Fark off. The bottom of the grill is enclosed and when that thing started going nuts after I fired the grill up, it jumped out in a hurry. They're a little bit bigger than your standard mouse, you know.

You'll have to go to your local government entity to apply for the sex change. You can make it permanent with some medication and a trip to Thailand.

We're going to keep this up? It took it a full 45 seconds to get off the deck, they are fat and don't move very fast. I got a few pictures of it walking out across the yard - I didn't think it was a threat. It just surprised me.

I live in the country. I had to capture and kill a rabid bat two years ago in my family room and get rabies shots (so did my wife) - I get jumpy for reasons that let me live. I'm sure your basement isn't offering anything more threatening than your typical roach or mouse, so piss off.