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opossum ate my car

gundagunda Posts: 97
edited February 2011 in All Encompassing Trip
woke up this morning hopped in my turn the key nothing. I had power but no ignition. So i pop the hood and find an opossum eaten away at all sorts of wires. Turns out he ate some vital stuff, long story short he depleted my PJ fund and then some. $ 1000 later i have a car but now totally im totally broke. Anyone have this happen to them , or suggest preventative measures i could take to keep him out.
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  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    shoot em....
    81 is now off the air

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  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Possums have a nervous chewing habit when they feel insecure. You should have made more of an effort to befriend that poor animal...

    Or, just eat his feet off, and say, "There! How do you like being without transportation?"
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  • gundagunda Posts: 97
    81 wrote:
    shoot em....
    best advice yet. Im an animal lover would never hurt one, when they hurt my pockets its on. yee haw !!! get out my car
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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,837
    Nice marmot.
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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Posts: 10,217
    I just think its amazing that you spelled 'opossum' correctly.
    You are 1 in about 4,765,023 people that actually know how to spell it.
    ...coincidentally, you are also 1 out of 4,765,023 people whose car has been eaten by one.

    Sorry to hear.
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  • RKCNDYRKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    do you keep cat food outside? them opossums really like cat food....my cats fight the raccoons and opossums for the food....
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  • gundagunda Posts: 97
    4and20 wrote:
    do you keep cat food outside? them opossums really like cat food....my cats fight the raccoons and opossums for the food....
    NO, but you should film that. I think you might have something there. Awesome avatar BTW
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  • RKCNDYRKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    gunda wrote:
    4and20 wrote:
    do you keep cat food outside? them opossums really like cat food....my cats fight the raccoons and opossums for the food....
    NO, but you should film that. I think you might have something there. Awesome avatar BTW

    thanks! :D but the cat vs. raccoon thing is really not too exciting, the cat (Lucifer) will be on the porch and chilling, a raccoon comes up and Lucifer will start growling, then he gets all puffy and then lets out a bloodcurdling scream, and then the raccoon stops, turns and runs away.
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  • Super CreepSuper Creep Posts: 374
    Or, just eat his feet off, and say, "There! How do you like being without transportation?"
    :lol::lol:
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Possums have a nervous chewing habit when they feel insecure. You should have made more of an effort to befriend that poor animal...

    Or, just eat his feet off, and say, "There! How do you like being without transportation?"

    Hey eyed, I'd like to propose you come on my new radio show and have a segment called "Wildlife Advice w/ Eyedclaar"

    Thoughts? :D;)
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    dankind wrote:
    Nice marmot.
    :thumbup:

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  • OceanInDisguise13OceanInDisguise13 Posts: 924
    Maybe this will help you as I have no idea how to get rid of them, I've never encountered one. Unfortunately we do get a lot of skunks in the spring/summer :?

    http://www.opossumsocietyus.org/frequen ... stions.htm
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  • dr0ptheleashdr0ptheleash Posts: 1,264
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    I just think its amazing that you spelled 'opossum' correctly.
    You are 1 in about 4,765,023 people that actually know how to spell it.
    ...coincidentally, you are also 1 out of 4,765,023 people whose car has been eaten by one.

    Sorry to hear.

    hahahaha.. :lol::lol::lol:

    I am not laughing at your misfortune though, that blows. Hope you have some good luck coming your way soon. Go buy a lottery ticket!
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    I just think its amazing that you spelled 'opossum' correctly.
    You are 1 in about 4,765,023 people that actually know how to spell it.
    ...coincidentally, you are also 1 out of 4,765,023 people whose car has been eaten by one.

    Sorry to hear.

    Whoah, whoah, I will be dead in the cold, hard ground before I incorporate that, no doubt, European influenced inclusion of unrequired vowels into the correct spelling of "possum". It doesn't need any more "O's" or "U's"...
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  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Posts: 10,217
    eyedclaar wrote:
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    I just think its amazing that you spelled 'opossum' correctly.
    You are 1 in about 4,765,023 people that actually know how to spell it.
    ...coincidentally, you are also 1 out of 4,765,023 people whose car has been eaten by one.

    Sorry to hear.

    Whoah, whoah, I will be dead in the cold, hard ground before I incorporate that, no doubt, European influenced inclusion of unrequired vowels into the correct spelling of "possum". It doesn't need any more "O's" or "U's"...

    haha, it is a bit silly. At some point in history they dropped them off of obear, owolf, and obeaver. ;)
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  • Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    eyedclaar wrote:
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    I just think its amazing that you spelled 'opossum' correctly.
    You are 1 in about 4,765,023 people that actually know how to spell it.
    ...coincidentally, you are also 1 out of 4,765,023 people whose car has been eaten by one.

    Sorry to hear.

    Whoah, whoah, I will be dead in the cold, hard ground before I incorporate that, no doubt, European influenced inclusion of unrequired vowels into the correct spelling of "possum". It doesn't need any more "O's" or "U's"...
    Squeal like a pig...
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  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    haha, it is a bit silly. At some point in history they dropped them off of obear, owolf, and obeaver. ;)


    Don't forget, obrother... :D
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  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    edited February 2011
    4and20 wrote:
    do you keep cat food outside? them opossums really like cat food....my cats fight the raccoons and opossums for the food....
    Watching just that provided me lots of good entertainment as a youngster at mom's house. It actually got to the point where one particular raccoon showed up so frequently that the cats would eat alongside him...but they were all wusses because they spent weeks sitting up on the shelf or the car watching him in terror as he ate all their damn food
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  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Black Diamond wrote:
    Squeal like a pig...

    Sounds like BD wants to come over for dinner...

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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    eyedclaar wrote:
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    haha, it is a bit silly. At some point in history they dropped them off of obear, owolf, and obeaver. ;)


    Don't forget, obrother... :D

    President Bama spells it possum too.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    dunkman wrote:
    eyedclaar wrote:
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    haha, it is a bit silly. At some point in history they dropped them off of obear, owolf, and obeaver. ;)


    Don't forget, obrother... :D

    President Bama spells it possum too.
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    I don't get it BD... :oops:

    must be some US Football reference that ain't made it across the pond?! ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
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