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Date Posted: 13:21:16 12/26/05 Mon
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Christmas Tree Possum Surprises Pa. Teen
Mary Kathleen O'Connor, 16, doing some studying for school about 6
a.m. Tuesday, said she was the first to be startled by an apparent
Christmas tree stowaway.
"I'm looking at the tree and the angel just pops off," she said. "And
a second later, this head just popped up. The eyes were, like,
glowing. I was thinking, 'Oh my God!' And I screamed."
Other family members came running. "We looked at it and I thought it
might have been a fake," said her father, Michael O'Connor, a
Frackville attorney. "But then it moved its head. And I thought 'Holy
Jeez. We're in trouble.'"
O'Connor called police, and William E. O'Donnell, a state Game
Commission deputy wildlife conservation officer, removed an
18-inch-long opossum from the 8-foot Douglas fir the family had
bought, bundled, from a dealer in Seltzer.
O'Donnell caged the animal and released it in woods about five miles
away. The tree, meanwhile, was still in the front yard where Patricia
had hurled it. "The lights are still on it," Michael O'Connor said.
"So is the stand."
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