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A Cute Lil Possum Got Himself Trapped In An Office And Became A Meme

When Bree Blakeman arrived at work on Monday morning and found herself in the midst of what appeared at first glance to be a crime scene, she was in for even more of a shock than if the room had just been torn apart by thieves.

Her office at the Australian National University in Canberra had been invaded, ransacked, ripped apart. But the intruder hadn’t been looking for valuables to steal.

Because the intruder, it turned out, was a possum.

“It wasn’t until I went to check my computer on the far side of the room that I noticed a fluffy little face staring at me from behind the computer,” Blakeman told BuzzFeed News. “And that’s when I also noticed the toilet droppings and urine everywhere too. It all made sense.”

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via Twitter

The poor little guy had somehow found himself trapped inside Blakeman’s office, and had ostensibly trashed the place while trying to find a way out.

“It crashed through the ceiling, poor [thing]!” she tweeted.

She also shared that it looked like “it must have tried to climb up the shelves to get up through the ceiling again a number of times,” due to the number of books that had been thrown to the floor. 

Blakeman was quick to contact the relevant people to try to get the possum back to his natural habitat.


But in the meantime, she helped her new pal out by leaving it a carrot and some water to try to make its stay in her place of work more comfortable.

Unfortunately, a weather advisory meant that the campus was closed down and the wildlife folks couldn’t get the possum out right away.

 

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But the story has a happy ending. By the time all was in the clear, Blakeman says, the possum had managed to find its own way back out into the world, and, hopefully, back home.

The brushfires in Australia have displaced a large number of animals from their natural habitats, and it’s reportedly been more and more common to find them co-mingling in human spaces where they wouldn’t normally be found.

Fortunately for this little guy, Blakeman was patient and understanding of his circumstances and gave him some time to rest from what was undoubtedly a harrowing ordeal for the trapped critter. But honestly, who couldn’t love a face like this?

Naturally, the trapped possum became an instant meme:

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