Porch pirate opossum caught on camera stealing box of cookies - take a break from political sperging and watch this possum steal some cookies. look at that little guy go


A security camera at a Texas home captured the moment a box of cookies delivered to the front door was stolen by an unlikely porch pirate -- an opossum.

The Southlake Department of Public Safety said a local resident identified only as Dr. M shared his security camera footage after the theft.

Dr. M's son, who was celebrating his 15th birthday, had been given some Tiff's Treats cookies by a family friend, and the delivery was left on the family's front step.

The son later discovered the balloon left by the delivery worker, as well as a bag of icing, but the box of cookies was found empty in the family's side yard.

The security camera footage revealed the thief was an opossum that made off with the unattended treats.

The department recommended residents follow Dr. M's example and use security cameras to "go marsupi-all in on protecting your home from thieves."

 
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Shidoen said:
The wolves and the moose would devastate the opossum population in seconds.
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My province hasn't had wolves for over a hundred and 20 yrs. They are considered extirpated here. I heard a single opossum somehow made it to New Brunswick by accident but it's too cold up here for marsupials.
In Canada, the wolf was extirpated from the Atlantic Provinces by the 1900s, becoming extinct in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick by 1870 and in Newfoundland by 1911. Wolves have been pushed out of the southern portion of Quebec and Ontario.
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A New Brunswick trapper has made history, catching an opossum in one of his snares.

Up until now, there have been no recorded sightings of the species north of Bangor, Maine.

But Albert Allain, of Richibucto Village, recently trapped one near Rexton.

He was "pretty excited and impressed," according to his daughter Lisa Leblanc.
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It's a bit smaller than a raccoon with long beige fur, long nails and a hairless tail, much like that of a rat.

They had "no clue" what it was, said Leblanc. "It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen. It looks like a big rat. Big long tail and it's got big claws, too. It doesn't look like a nice thing."
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McAlpine believes the opposum may have hitched a ride on a truck heading north.

"They don’t hibernate as such, but they do move into a den or a hollow tree or an attic to overwinter. So it may have been a hollow tree that was cut and was being moved north, or it may have been in some packing materials, who knows? But I think it's the most likely route that it took to get here," said McAlpine.

The other possibility is that someone may have been keeping it as a pet, he said.
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Local FloRida-man said:
My boy be like
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It's null in his next life as an opossum.
GunCar Gary said:
i don't know if it's a regional thing or a "technically incorrect" thing but i've always just called them possums
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It's both! It's a regional thing to shorten opossum to just "possum" but there is an actual marsupial species in Australia called just "possums" without the op at the front.
Both possum and opossum correctly refer to the Virginia opossum frequently seen in North America. In common use, possum is the usual term; in technical or scientific contexts opossum is preferred. Opossum can be pronounced with its first syllable either voiced or silent.
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