Mary Kathleen O'Connor, 16, was doing some studying for school about 6 a.m. Tuesday, when . . . .
"I'm looking at the tree and the angel just pops off," she said. "And a second later, this head just popped up. The eyes were, like, glowing. I was thinking, 'Oh my God!' And I screamed."
"Other family members came running. "We looked at it and I thought it might have been a fake," said her father, Michael O'Connor, a Frackville attorney. "But then it moved its head. And I thought 'Holy Jeez. We're in trouble.'"
It turned out to be an 18-inch-long opossum.
A wildlife conservation officer caged and released the animal in the woods five miles away.
The tree, meanwhile, reportedly is still in the front yard where it was hurled -- lights, tree stand and all.
Courage my friends. Go pick up that tree and carry on!
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