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| Subject: Idiotic judge bans popular 'possum drop' party Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:59 am | |
| A popular New Year's celebration that draws thousands of tourists to a tiny North Carolina town for a party that ends in a "possum drop" may no longer be held there, a judge has ruled.
The 18-year tradition at Brasstown, population 240, consisted of lowering the animal to the ground at midnight in a see-through cage decked out in Christmas garlands, like the ball that is dropped in New York's Times Square - except the possum is alive.
The judge ruled that a sportsman's licence held by Clay Logan, who hosts the event, allowed him to take the animal from the wild but not to possess and exhibit it.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/popular-possum-drop-party-banned-by-judge-20121115-29dg0.html#ixzz2CHBICffC
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