Right to Opine

The NewsObserver reports that at PETA’s behest, a judge in NC has halted the 20-year-old tradition of the Opossum Drop wherein a live ’possum is lowered in a cage at midnight on New Year’s.

Here’s an idea that should make PETA happy: since you can’t use a live ’possum, just kill a fresh one each year, stuff it, and raffle it off for an NRA-approved charity. You’d hate to trample the poor critter’s rights by releasing it unharmed, now, wouldn’t you?