Don't You Want to Pull Over and Pick Up That Dead Fox?

I wasn't going to say anything. But today's news on Fox News that a man named Fox pulled over to pick up a "dead" fox he hit with his SUV and then was nearly killed by the dead fox proved too much for me. First, the story from Fox about Fox and the fox:

A man who decided to take home a fox he hit on the road wrecked his SUV after the animal he thought was dead revived.

   

Tommy Fox ran over the fox last Wednesday near Dover, Tenn., as he returned home from work, the Leaf Chronicle reports.

 

Thinking the animal was dead, he decided to take the animal home to cut off its tail as a souvenir, Dale Grandstaff of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency told the paper.

 

"The tails are real bushy and pretty and thick this time of year," Grandstaff said.

 

Instead, the driver flipped his GMC Jimmy trying to keep the fox — that had awoken in the backseat — from biting him, Grandstaff told the paper.

 

Fox suffered minor injuries and bruises, the Leaf Chronicle reports. The fox died, though it was unclear if it was from initial injuries or the subsequent wreck of the vehicle.

Now here's what I wasn't going to blog about. About a week ago I was sorry to see a dead fox on the side of the road about three miles from my house. A few days later I was surprised to see that the corpse was missing its tail. Next the head disappeared.

Who takes home parts of road kill as trophies? And how can we get them interested in possums?

Comments

[Cheryl]

Very funny...very funny. Can we add armadillos to the possum list?