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"Monster rabbit" targets vegetable patch
Reuters ^
| Fri Apr 7, 06
Posted on 04/07/2006 9:05:02 AM PDT by presidio9
It sounds like a job for Wallace and Gromit.
A "monster" rabbit has apparently been rampaging through vegetable patches in a small village in northern England, ripping up leeks, munching turnips and infuriating local gardeners.
In an uncanny resemblance to the plot of the hit animated film "Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit," angry horticulturists in Felton, near Newcastle, have now mounted an armed guard to protect their prized cabbages and parsnips.
"They call it the monster. It's very big -- it's nearly the size of a dog," said Joan Smith, whose son Jeff owns one of the plots under attack.
"It's eating everything, all the vegetables," she told Reuters. "They are trying to shoot it. They go along hoping to catch it but I think it's too crafty."
In the "Wallace" film, which topped both the U.S. and UK box office charts and in March won an Oscar for best animated feature film, the plasticine heroes battle a mutant rabbit bent on destroying their home town's annual Giant Vegetable Contest.
Those who say they have witnessed Felton's black and brown monster describe it as a cross between a rabbit and a hare with one ear bigger than the other.
Its antics came to public attention when Jeff Smith, 63, raised it as an issue with the local parish council.
"He came along to pay the annual fee for the allotment (vegetable patch) and he said 'ooh we've got this big cross between a hare and a rabbit,'" the council's clerk Lisa Hamlin told Reuters.
Smith himself has described it as a "brute" which had left huge pawprints.
"This is no ordinary rabbit. We are dealing with a monster," he was quoted by newspapers as saying.
"It is absolutely massive. The first time I saw it I thought to myself 'What the hell is that?'
"We have two lads here with guns who are trying to shoot it, but it is very clever."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bigs; bunny; devours; englishveggie; generalchat; monster; pests; plots; rabbit; runaway; wherebehindtherabbit
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:05:05 AM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
I sent this to my wife earlier this morning. It's just like "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit". Crikey!
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:07:54 AM PDT
by
dljordan
To: presidio9
Killer rabbits!!! Aaaaahhhhhh!!!!
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:08:21 AM PDT
by
Crispus Attucks Patriot
(The first to give his life for your liberty was a Black man!)
To: presidio9
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:08:33 AM PDT
by
Andy from Beaverton
(I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
To: presidio9
why is there a tendency everytime something new is found, we try to find out if it is bulletproof?
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:08:54 AM PDT
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: Crispus Attucks Patriot
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:09:14 AM PDT
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: Andy from Beaverton; Crispus Attucks Patriot; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:09:23 AM PDT
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: presidio9
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:09:46 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: presidio9
Obviously Bigfoot let his pet rabbit, Bigpaw, get loose.
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:10:20 AM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
To: presidio9; aculeus; All
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:11:18 AM PDT
by
dighton
To: presidio9
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:11:40 AM PDT
by
hershey
To: presidio9
Did the folks at "Teletubbies" lose one of theirs?
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:11:41 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
("Again! Again!")
To: pcottraux
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:12:09 AM PDT
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: presidio9
It's got big, nasty teeth and a mean streak a mile wide.
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:13:24 AM PDT
by
Buck W.
(Avoid Evian Flu--Don't Drink Bottled Water.)
To: presidio9
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:13:44 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(The MSM is a hate group and we are the object of their disdain.)
To: hershey
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:14:52 AM PDT
by
orionblamblam
(A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine)
To: presidio9
Tim: That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
Tim: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
Tim: He's got huge, sharp... er... He can leap about. Look at the bones!
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:15:01 AM PDT
by
SouthJrzReaganite18
(Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. -Optimus Prime)
To: presidio9
Best news article, ever.Feel the power of the ears!
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:15:05 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(The MSM is a hate group and we are the object of their disdain.)
To: presidio9
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:15:21 AM PDT
by
isthisnickcool
(What is is about "illegal" you don't understand?)
To: hershey
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posted on
04/07/2006 9:15:47 AM PDT
by
orionblamblam
(A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine)
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