A student of the Uruti School with her entry for the best dressed possum competition & fundraiser in Uruti, Taranaki, New Zealand (© Jonathan Cameron/Taranaki Daily News)

A girl stands with her entry for the best dressed possum competition and fundraiser in Uruti, New Zealand.

An entry for best dressed possum competition at the Uruti School in Uruti, Taranaki, New Zealand (© Jonathan Cameron/Taranaki Daily News)

An entry for the best dressed possum competition at the Uruti School in New Zealand.

A beach-inspired entry in the best dressed possum contest.

A set of twins entered in the possum contest.

A more romantic take on the best-dressed possum theme.

It's not as classic as a boxing kangaroo, but the boxing possum looks pretty good.

New Zealand kids dress up dead possums, win prizes

8/5/2012

We’re betting this won’t be coming to an American school any time soon. Kids at the Uruti School in New Zealand hosted an annual fundraising pig hunt. And that’s not the weird part: As part of the pig hunt festivities, students participated in a contest that involved dressing dead possums in bizarre costumes -- including, but not limited to, a boxing possum, an artist possum, and a dead-possum bride. While New Zealand’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tut-tutted, the school raised over $8,000 -- twice what it had hoped to bring in. [Source]

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