katysails wrote:
You had to teach people at uni level that possums are nasty SOB's????? OZ
is a very strange place. Everyone here knows that from childhood on....

I've known a few city boys who didn't know, wouldn't believe it when
told, and had to find out the hard way. Most recently a neighbor who
tried to pick up a "dead" possum he found on his porch (the thing had
come up there to eat his dog's food) and had to get stitches plus a
tetanus shot. If that's not scary enough, his insurance company refused
to pay for a rabies shot series and he shrugged it off...

DSK