Opossums go shopping, removed from multiple Tarrant County stores

Not every shopper you might see in Tarrant County is human; in the last week, two separate shops have had to remove opossums from their storefronts.Shoe shopping opossum in ArlingtonAt DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse at The Parks Mall in Arlington, patrons noticed an opossum roaming the store. It's unclear what kind of shoes the opossum was looking for.An off-duty Arlington Police Sergeant was working nearby and removed the opossum with his bare hands.Arlington PD humorously noted in a Facebook post that the opossum was "released without charges."Acrobatic opossum in Fort Worth"I couldn’t believe what I was seeing."On July 23, Wylie Branch captured video of an opossum walking along the rafters at a Fort Worth Walmart."Someone said ‘look, an opossum’," Branch said. "Everyone in the store was looking up watching for its next move."Opossums are known to be extraordinary climbers, using both their paws and prehensile tails to scale high places.
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