JOHNSON CITY, NEW YORK: A baby opossum's instinct to play dead evidently didn't help matters after it got wedged inside a soda machine at an upstate New York fitness club.
The animal ran into the Court Jester Athletic Club in Johnson City, New York, near Binghamton, and scurried behind a soda machine in the front vestibule Wednesday evening, The Press and Sun-Bulletin of Binghamton reported.
The club's assistant manager called police realizing the critter was stuck inside, hanging upside down in a compartment below the soda dispenser.
A police officer tried to pull the animal from the bottom of the machine, but it was lodged in place and making no apparent move to escape. About a half hour later, an employee arrived with a key for the machine, the front panel was opened and the animal rescued. The officer released it in a nearby cemetery.
Jun 29, 2009
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