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My father lives in a small quiet town in Tasmania on a 3/4 acre block with an apple orchard out the back. Brush tailed possums are his pet hate as they chew new shoots on the trees and fuck up all the fruit.
A few weeks ago he caught one in a cage trap and put it down with an old .22LR using a silencer my brother and I rigged up with some steel pipe, PVC and foam (silencers are illegal in Tasmania). He fucked up and used supersonic ammo though - it put out a huge noise that rang out across the town.
He was quite worried that someone would dob him into the cops but nothing came of it until a week later when he attended the local rotary society meeting. At the meeting they pass around a 'fine jar' for general mistakes people have made. Turns out everybody knew he shot a possum and had to pay a $20 fine that went towards the meeting bar tab.
Small country towns ftw to be honest. Pic is a possum.
