{"id":340596,"date":"2025-12-10T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340596\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:32:08","slug":"content-creator-charles-ross-under-investigation-for-opossum-catapult-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/340596\/","title":{"rendered":"Content Creator Charles Ross Under Investigation For Opossum Catapult Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Content Creator Charles Ross<br \/>\n                          Opossum Catapult Video Backlash &#8230;<br \/>\n                          Under Investigation In Florida<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published December 9, 2025 4:24 PM PST\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251209_2b73ee3be8b7482aa226cff5d9fe3dc0\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:025640cf-88ba-49a0-9dce-83546ed5dd8e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2b73ee3be8b7482aa226cff5d9fe3dc0_md.jpg\" alt=\"ross creations possum launch main 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Content creator Charles Ross, who posts videos on social media under the handle Creations Ross, is on the radar of authorities in Florida &#8230; after he shared footage of an opossum getting launched in the air by a catapult.<\/p>\n<p>Ross has 2 million followers on Instagram and his bio says he&#8217;s from Sarasota, FL &#8230; and the Sarasota County Sheriff&#8217;s Office tells TMZ they&#8217;ve received multiple complaints about the opossum video.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Internet personality RossCreations is facing backlash after posting video launching an opossum into the air. Fans are calling it animal cruelty and demanding a statement from the creator. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y1GyiQqKDe\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Y1GyiQqKDe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TaraBull (@TaraBull) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaraBull\/status\/1997018138274107568?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 5, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaraBull\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@TaraBull<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, we&#8217;re told there is an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission tells us they&#8217;re aware of the video and they&#8217;re working with the Sarasota County State Attorney\u2019s Office on an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251209_33d82b97c63b40788b04bf9c5d2ad3a1\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:025640cf-88ba-49a0-9dce-83546ed5dd8e\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/33d82b97c63b40788b04bf9c5d2ad3a1_md.jpg\" alt=\"animal-catapult-4-12-09-2025\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>FWC tells us they take &#8220;wildlife violations seriously&#8221; and remain &#8220;committed to protecting Florida\u2019s wildlife. Anyone who may have information related to any wildlife violation is encouraged to call the <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/contact\/wildlife-alert\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Wildlife Alert Hotline<\/a> at 888-404-FWCC (3922).<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Content Creator Charles Ross Opossum Catapult Video Backlash &#8230; Under Investigation In Florida Published December 9, 2025 4:24&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-340596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}