Friday, March 26, 2010

How (not) to perform mouth-to-mouth on a possum


 [Thanks to my friend Diane Twomley for pointing this one out to me]

From today's Centre Daily Times:

Police: Drunk Pa. man tried to 'revive' opossum

- The Associated Press
State police have charged a central Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen giving mouth-to-mouth "resuscitation" to a long-dead opossum along a highway.

Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal along Route 36 in Oliver Township Thursday about 3 p.m. The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance, while another saw the mouth-to-mouth attempt.

Levier says Wolfe was "extremely intoxicated" and "did have his mouth in the area of the animal's mouth, I guess."

The Associated Press could not locate a home telephone number for Wolfe.  Oliver Township is about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

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