Christina Rutz on Flickr”Colyton School is about letting kids be kids,” the principal said in a written statement,” Climbing trees, grazing knees and engaging in a lifestyle that is all too easily overlooked in the 21st Century.” Those and, apparently, throwing possums around.Last week, a New Zealand paper posted a series of photos of a possum-throwing gala, inciting outrage (click through, please, the photos are pure gold) amongst some of the citizenry.A representative of New Zealand’s SPCA says that while the contest is technically not illegal, it’s not very nice, saying that throwing dead possums might lead to throwing around dead cats.This isn’t so much like puppy girl (warning: link is soul-crushing), though–one, they’re dead, and two, THIS LOOKS LIKE SO MUCH FUN.Warwick Smith, Sydney Morning HeraldTHROWIN’ POSSUMSMy main question is, though, where are they getting these possums? Are they just walking around collecting mangled, diseased dead possums all year, preparing for a huge possum-tossing fest? Do they follow them around until they calmly die of old age?