Woman becomes local hero after bouncing opossum from Brooklyn bar
The best way to enjoy a night of free drinks, it turns out, is playing pest control
The usual ways to get free drinks for the night include playing live music, performing stand-up comedy, or, the trickiest option by far, being really good-looking. For anyone hoping to spot other cost-saving measures, however, we’ve learned of a novel new approach: Removing opossums from the bar by hand to the astonishment of everyone nearby.
Sara Fulton demonstrated the viability of this last method during a night out at Temkin’s Bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn last week. Talking to NBC New York, Fulton says she was “hanging out with my friend outside the bar, the door was open, and then all of a sudden we see this critter run in and we looked at each other, and we just were like, ‘Was that a dog? Is that a rat?’”
Thinking that the critter in question “was too big to be a rat,” Fulton realized the furry patron she spotted was actually an opossum. What happened next was captured on video. Fulton, who grew up in Alaska and isn’t scared of rat-faced wildlife, walked over to where the creature was trying to get a booth inside the bar, grabbed it by the scruff of the neck, and took it outside.