They released it back into the wild “to prevent further citizen harassment,” he said. Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen said the possum was likely an escaped pet or recently separated from its mother. But the cop used the flare of a handy torch to stun the possum just long enough to capture it in a box and have it “carted off in the back of the police car,” she said. Undeterred, the contentious creature blitzed a responding officer “and climbed up him, too,” she said. Why Hank, the garage opossum, is social media’s latest sensation She tried to call animal control, who reportedly referred her to the police instead. That’s when she took up refuge inside of her home.īut the adamant animal continued menacing the women through the window - charging at the glass every time it spotted her. The bushy-tailed urban wildlife dweller is considered something of a nuisance throughout New Zealand. “I pulled it off me, thinking it was a cat, and then I saw it was a possum,” she said.īut the possum, apparently a juvenile, wouldn’t let up and “kept on charging at” her, she claimed.
“I thought, ‘That’s weird,’ and as I was taking stuff from the back seat something ran up my leg.
“I had put my stuff on the veranda and as I was heading back to my car … I heard this rustling,” she told New Zealand news site Stuff. The woman told police that she had been unpacking her car after a road trip with the pugnacious possum first attacked. from a distressed woman, who told them: “I’m being held hostage by a possum.”Ībout 20 minutes later, an officer arrived at the home of a University of Otago post-graduate student, who declined identification in the press. The Dunedin Central Police Station told local media that they received a report around 11 p.m. That’s how the story goes for one resident of the city Dunedin, who phoned the police on Saturday night to report being threatened by a particularly aggressive possum - now dubbed the “Blacks Road Ripper,” referring to the street name on which the incident took place. ‘Judo giraffe’ body-slams rival in love match over femaleĬan a person be held hostage by a cute, furry animal? Moose stomps on child in wild animal attack Man attacked by 20 otters, bitten 26 times: ‘I thought I was going to die’ ‘Psycho’ squirrel’s 48-hour Christmas rampage terrorizes town, injures 18
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