"Kids love dead animals !" my grandfather would always say, shortly before the debut of another underwhelming Christmas (the worst part was having to write the "thank you" notes)

So it should come as no surprise that the kids in Nanuet, New York, are having a grand old time with nature's plaything, the opossum.

Three 16-year-olds have been arrested after tying a cord around the dead animal, then lowering it from an overpass "just low enough to be hit by passing cars." The teenagers later did the same thing with a crow; at least one car was damaged.