Why me?

[Diddy]

opossums

Those are easy to get rid of. A 12 pack and steel toed work boots usually do the trick.

[phins]

The guy who works for the insurance company tells you to eat the loss...hmmm...coincidence? LOL

I don't work for an insurance company, I work for a financial services company that owns insurance companies among other subsidiary endeavors. I have learned a lot of how it works though, and you sound like the hordes of people who think it is smart to turn in every claim. If you would like for me to do the math on how it would be worse for him in the long run, and how if he were to have another claim in the next six years he runs the risk of being non-renewed, and then having to pay for high risk home insurance, I could do so. Hopefully he has an insurance policy that returns a portion of his premium if he's claim free for a certain of time anyway. If he's not, he should look for a company that does.

But, since you seem to insinuate something about my integrity already, you probably wouldn't listen.

I'd just do the math, and think it over before turning in a theft claim that will probably net you $1,000 now Doc.

I guess you missed the LOL part. I was being facetious and certainly never meant to impugn your integrity. It was a joke. Sorry it didn't play well.

Yeah, I interpreted the LOL as you laughing at my profession (which I don't really work in fully )

I am a person who tries really hard to be trustworthy though, so I can be a little sensitive about my integrity at times. Sorry for my ill-advised rant.

[Hungary Jack]

Last night some cops in Chicago killed a mountain lion in Chicago. I'm not kidding. It probably was some moron's pet.

Anyways, the killing of such a magnificent creature is a sacrifice worthy to redeem Doc's horrible run of lousy luck.

Doc, I need you to get Leroy and take him over to Big Cat Country at the Zoo. Tell Leroy to go jump inside the pen and make noises like a kitty treat. That should complete the cycle.

Whoa, that's nuts. Where did this happen?

Don't worry, bro. It wasn't the kinda cougar you are so fond of.

link

Wow! I would have freaked, in a good way, if I saw a cougar roaming the streets here. I geek out when I see raccoons.

It's gotta be an escaped "pet" from some nutjob up in McHenry County who just had to have one in his backyard.

Right?

Lots of talk about cougars (cats) lately around here lately due to sightings in SW Wisconsin (they got a dna sample and traced it to cats in the Black Hills) and some sightings in the Shawnee area in southern IL (I was there last weekend). The latter species is believed to be associated to the Florida panther, which is protected under the ESA. It will be interesting if they actually confirm this.

[G. Keenan]

I grew up in the sticks, so I've seen more than my fair share of just about every type of animal. But opossums still freak me out. They're like huge rats.

I have no idea where the opossums live during the day around here now. Maybe in the big trees in the park? Not many love pads for them to stay at anymore.

They do look like huge rats. Sometimes at night you'd think they were a really fat cat but then recognize their distinctive shuffling walk. There was a really big vacant building right next door to our house (still is vacant actually). It also had a huge backyard the size of like three lots. Between the opossums and the feral cats it was a wild kingdom back there. Every night the opossums would walk through our yard going wherever they went to do whatever they do at night.

The cats and the opossums competed for territory. The cats would actually go into the possum nests and disperse the babies. They wouldn't kill the babies, just carry them out of the building and drop them places, sometimes in our yard. Sometimes you'd open a dumpster and find an opossum trapped in it. They are some of the fiercest little buggers ever when cornered.

I suspect some still nest in that building as it's till vacant.

[Hungary Jack]

About ten years ago I strolled through my backyard into the vegetable garden one evening and darned near stepped on an opossum. White as snow. Scared the hell out of me. It didn't even budge.

[Radio_Bugtussle]

Possums are not what you'd call intellectually gifted. Pain and a lot of other things do not register with them.

A friend of mine claims that he clubbed and (apparently) killed and skinned a possum late one afternoon. He was interrupted and left the skin and carcass in the shed and returned about an hour later to find only the skin. He is convinced that the skinned possum got up and walked away.

[thrill]

Possums are not what you'd call intellectually gifted. Pain and a lot of other things do not register with them.

A friend of mine claims that he clubbed and (apparently) killed and skinned a possum late one afternoon. He was interrupted and left the skin and carcass in the shed and returned about an hour later to find only the skin. He is convinced that the skinned possum got up and walked away.

I've disposed of two possums. I don't doubt your friend's story for a second.

[Popeye_Card]

Possums are not what you'd call intellectually gifted. Pain and a lot of other things do not register with them.

A friend of mine claims that he clubbed and (apparently) killed and skinned a possum late one afternoon. He was interrupted and left the skin and carcass in the shed and returned about an hour later to find only the skin. He is convinced that the skinned possum got up and walked away.

I've disposed of two possums. I don't doubt your friend's story for a second.

I heard that Stan Lee wanted to call Logan "Opossum", but that didn't sound very cool, so he went with Wolverine instead.

[docellis]

my tax refund just arrived so I guess that solves my problem, or at least pushes me away from considering filing a claim.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

my tax refund just arrived so I guess that solves my problem, or at least pushes me away from considering filing a claim.

Spend it on booze and hookers!