Wasn't This In A Chevy Chase Movie?

A 16 year old girl studying for school found herself face to face with a opposum hidden in her family's live Christmas tree.

"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."

The father, a lawyer no less, resisted the natural urge to sue the critter for invasion of privacy and called local police and game authorities. Critter cops pulled the 18 inch long stowaway out of the tree and relased it 5 miles away.

The tree, meanwhile, was still in the front yard where Patricia [the
daughter] had hurled it. "The lights are still on it," [the
father] said. "So is the stand."

Lemme get this straight, a 16 year old girl hurled a tree outside with a live opposum in it??? I'm shocked she didn't run upstairs away from those nasty critters.