Playing dead? Baby opossum stuck inside soda machine at NY gym doesn’t give rescuers much help

JOHNSON CITY, N.Y. — A baby opossum’s instinct to play dead evidently didn’t help matters after it got wedged inside a soda machine at an upstate New York fitness club. The animal ran into the Court Jester Athletic Club in Johnson City, N.Y., near Binghamton, and scurried behind a soda machine in the front vestibule Wednesday evening.