NC - Video surfaces of several people dousing opossum with fuel and setting it on fire - Charlotte, April 2025

[Clearsky]

Sickos film live opossum they set on fire — while laughing with delight: ‘One of the most heinous cases’

They scream and laugh as the opossum, engulfed in flames, writhes in pain for over a minute before keeling over, seemingly dead, the video shows.

nypost.com

“It’s under investigation, but this is looking like it’s going to be a felony matter of animal cruelty,” Kristofer Blankenship, a senior officer with the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission, told WCNC.

 

[LadyL]

I can't adequately describe how this infuriates me. I hate animal abusers with everything in me.

 

[LordMo]

east tennesseean here, I'm no stranger to hearing my more rural relatives describe some of the possibly-illegal things they've done to try and eradicate "varmints" from their pets and crops -- but none of them deliberately tortured a wild animal to death and especially none of them howled laughing at its pain.

Disgusting.