American Standard
Beaten. Was going to say this.

Once saw a raccoon ambling down the middle of the road at a leisurely pace. Damn near ran over it; it barely turned around when I beeped the car's horn. Rabid as a fangirl for sure. I should have run the poor thing over and put it out of its misery.

grimcity
...also, a wild opossum will disembowel a cat in a heartbeat. Puppies, too. I've seen what they can do to a cat firsthand, and I've had to kill several of them (not at the same time) attempting to break into my neighbor's kennel.

memedumpster
Wild opossums do nothing to nobody and are the most preyed upon wild animal. Come on, you may as well be saying the Dalai Lama beat up Jackie Chan and stole your wallet.

Ursa_minor
No really man, wild opossums are basically like mountain lions or alaska bears or whatever

Adham Nu'man
I don't know what kind of shitty cat varieties you've observed but mine regularly kill snakes, even poisonous ones. While I admit they might not be able to murder a possum I doubt a possum is faster than a snake or that it would ever present a real threat to a cat.
Possums are known as "Zorros" in most of Latin America and are basically a walking free meal for country folk.

SteamPoweredKleenex
Possums would regularly try to get into my mom's garden. My stepfather could walk up to them, wait for them to play dead, then pick them up by the tail and heave them out of the yard (assuming the dogs didn't get them first).

I've never seen anything killed by one of these things, let alone seen one do anything remotely aggressive.

Adham Nu'man
Possums will fucking cut you wide open.

chairsforcheap
Any mammal can get rabies. However, the chance of rabies in an opossum is EXTREMELY RARE. This may have something to do with the opossum’s low body temperature (94-97º F) making it difficult for the virus to survive in an opossum’s body.

Old_Zircon
He's got DANCE FEVER.

grimcity
memedumpster - no disrespect, but I've seen this shit.

They have jaws like a dog, and they're pretty strong for their size... a lot stronger than a cat. My eyes have seen them being aggressive and trying to get into the kennels I mentioned earlier. I'm not talking about something someone said or passing an old wives tale, they can be motherfuckers.

urbanelf
Get on linkin' it.

Old_Zircon
If you insist.

Syd Midnight
Kamegai, Tetsuya 2005 A Determination of Bite Force in Japanese Children. European Journal of Orthodontics 27(1):p53-57.