Kicker: Shelf life

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: At an airport gift shop in Australia, a possum appears to have tried the oldest trick in the book:

Stand very still, and pretend not to be alive.

This possum-playing-possum found itself sitting on a shelf among stuffed toy animals for sale.

And at first glance, it fit right in. But then someone noticed a problem: Its eyes were moving.

Staff took video before the possum apparently decided the disguise wasn’t fooling anyone and wandered off.

Airport workers later removed the possum unharmed.

Now no one’s quite sure how it got into the shop or how long it had been trying out for the role of souvenir.

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