Group hopes to prevent “opossum dropping” on New Year's Eve
RALEIGH — A movement is growing in North Carolina to prevent the act of so-called “opossum dropping.”The practice involves suspending an opossum in a transparent box on New Year’s Eve and slowly lowering it the ground as people count down to midnight.The Raleigh News & Observer reported Monday that a western North Carolina town had conducted opossum drops for 24 years.Brasstown in Clay County dropped its last opossum in 2018. But the […]
