Police: Drunk Pa. man tries to revive carcass of very dead opossum
Mar 27 2010 Updated March 30, 9 PM EST
Extremely Dead Opossum - Victim of Road Rage?
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa.— Police say they charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resuscitate a long-dead opossum along a highway. State police Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal Thursday along Route 36 in Oliver Township, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance. He says another saw Wolfe attempting to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Levier says the animal already had been dead a while. He speculated the opossum might have been killed by the alcohol toxic breath of its would be rescuer. A coroner was not called and no official cause of death was reported, which raised some eyebrows in the Opossum community, concerned about a possible cover-up.
The Associated Press could not locate a home telephone number for Wolfe.
Police later received reports of a gang of opossums, wearing white sheets and hoods, that had been spotted near the drunk man's home, raising fears of vigilante justice.
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