Bob Barker to N. Carolina: Don't cage that opposum
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Former game show host Bob Barker is telling North Carolina lawmakers that caging a live opossum for a New Year's Eve event in the mountains isn't good show business.
Barker wrote this week to a state Senate committee's members asking them to oppose a bill that would let the organizer of the Brasstown "Possum Drop" keep suspending a possum in a box every Dec. 31 and lowering it gently to the ground.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals complained about the event. A judge ruled state regulators don't have explicit authority to permit the display. A House bill approved this week would change that.
Barker says the event is inhumane and that loopholes for animal abuse shouldn't be created.
PETA released the letter. The 89-year-old Barker is a longtime animal rights activist.
Barker wrote this week to a state Senate committee's members asking them to oppose a bill that would let the organizer of the Brasstown "Possum Drop" keep suspending a possum in a box every Dec. 31 and lowering it gently to the ground.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals complained about the event. A judge ruled state regulators don't have explicit authority to permit the display. A House bill approved this week would change that.
Barker says the event is inhumane and that loopholes for animal abuse shouldn't be created.
PETA released the letter. The 89-year-old Barker is a longtime animal rights activist.
That wax figure of Bob looks almost lifelike.
If BB had his way he'd release Packy in the forest. Stick to spaying and neutering dogs and cats.
I am disappointed with this story. I thought it was going something like opossum chunking skeet shooting
Sure, we can laugh ourselves silly over these articles. Meanwhile the important news of the day gets kicked to the curb.
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@Kushfan Imagine people sitting at a keyboard trying to make some sort of social intercourse...........
Why would anyone really care what Bob Barker thinks about something happening on the other side of the US?
@Ifishsum Then why do you comment on the happenings in DC, since it's on the other side of the country?
Hey Bob, there are some free-range bunnies at DIA......
@WendyTeagarden  There's a lot less since my fiance showed up.
@Kushfan ....with a full bladder or a .45?
@Kushfan I assume it is not called "tinkling" then?
@WendyTeagarden You don't want to be around her when she has to tinkle.
@WendyTeagarden Yes.
Hey Bob, speaking of inhumane....... how many times did you get in trouble for groping the models......
@kramr Apparently he can put women in a cage but not an oppossum.