PETA continues to keep Brasstown, NC on the map. Just in time for the annual New Year’s Possum Drop, the Wake County Superior Court made a little rumble in the ongoing lawsuit that picked up headlines.
PETA has said the ‘Possum Drop is inhumane and that forcing a wild, captive opossum to dangle above a crowd of cheering people, thumping music, musket fire and fireworks, frightens the animal so severely that it is likely to die after the event from stress-induced illnesses.
