I had an opossum get on the back porch hand railing once...thought, well, I'll just grab the broom and crack it over the head and kill it. Granted...it wasn't one of those Yo Mamma's straw brooms from back in the day that you could use the handle to chop down a telephone pole with by virtue of pure blunt force trauma. No...it was a modern soyboy handled broom.

I broke the broom handle over that varmints head and all it did was expose those nasty sharp teeth and hiss at me. I fixed him up with a .38 that was laying on the kitchen table.

He didn't hiss at that...he just died.

Then...this one is good...a possum got in the house and I couldn't very well blast him...so, I took my double edged 6 inch Gerber fightin knife...taped it to the end of a new broom handle and stabbed that sucker. Pinned it to the wall whilst it bled out(long story why it bleeding out in the house isn't as gross as it sounds). I could feel it's heart beating through the broom handle as it died.

I trust you weren't accusing me, opossum stabby boy, of being a tree hugger. 🤣