Close to Home by John McPherson for October 31, 2019

Maybe if they looked like possums

Does Bleeb have a beer in his hand? It sure looks like it. Even his eyes look a bit dilated. Hey dude are you old enough for that?

I thought they were bears.

Time to bury them, get the shovel.

Put them in the street so they can get some tire marks to be really accurate

Apparently Mr. McPherson has never seen a live possum (opossum)!Where’s the tail and the ashen color or the pink nose?

Opossums are grey and white and are in North America. I suppose these could be possums, instead, which are brown and live in Australia. Unfortunately, the defense mechanism of “playing possum” is only a trait of the North American, grey and white opossum, not of the brown Australian possum.Class dismissed.

Cute. Scare them off with the lawn mower dude. The trick is sadly left out of trick or treating these days.

I keep trying to scare the possums in my yard so they play dead but so far the only play hissing vicious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8fSwzRzKGg

My wife once announced, “There’s a dead possum in our front yard.” I reflexively asked, “Are you sure?”

I’m glad I read the caption, now it’s not quite as disturbing.