'Calmly! I'm from Alaska': a woman saved a Brooklyn bar from a possum and became a local heroine

A possum dropped into a Brooklyn bar... Sounds like a joke, doesn't it? However, this is a real story from the Once Upon a Time in New York series. She made Sarah Fulton a local celebrity after an incident at the Temkin bar in Greenpoint on Thursday, May 26, in the evening, reports NBC New York.

A woman becomes a heroine who saves terrified bar patrons from a terrifying opossum.

“I was outside, hanging out with my friend at the bar, the door was open. And suddenly we saw this creature run in. We looked at each other and thought in bewilderment: was it a dog? Or a rat? Fulton said. - But then they realized that the animal is too big for a rat! In the end, they guessed that it was a possum.”

The footage shows Fulton grabbing the opossum by the scruff of the neck, then she exits the bar and sends the mischievous marsupial away. Absolutely no fuss.

Fulton said that this is nothing special, because she is not from Brooklyn, but from Alaska. So the opossum is tiny compared to the moose family that used to live in her backyard.

“I'm from Alaska. I used to go on camping trips where black bears lived, and they hung out at my camp,” she said. “I think it was instinctive, I just went up to him and said: “Hey, I know that you are afraid, but I will take you by the scruff of the neck and pull you out, because it will be the least painful for you.”

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Everyone else in the bar panicked as the only wild animals most Brooklynians are used to are rats and cockroaches.

“Everyone just went crazy, we couldn't believe this was happening,” said bartender Rachel Bessemer. “I grabbed my phone but didn’t know who to call.”

By the time the work was completed, Fulton had become a city celebrity. Or at least a bar where people lined up to buy her a drink.

“Everyone bought her so many cocktails that the event turned into a party,” Bessemer said.

“They admired, they say, you are a hero, you are a celebrity! No, I say,” Fulton emphasized. “For me, it’s just a wild animal. But I should understand that I'm not in Alaska. And you don't see that every day."