You can actually thank the show Xena: Warrior Princess for that pic. There was actually an epiosde where a killer rabbit attacked Xena's sidekick. It was hysterical- very Monty Python.
Posted on 03/29/2002 8:56:31 PM PST by vikingchick
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP)
Sonoma County musician Doug Bowes will remember this Easter season as the one where he happened upon the Easter Bunny, and it attacked him.
Bowes was walking near his home at about 11 a.m. Wednesday when the attack occurred. A small, gray jack rabbit bounded toward him from a nearby fence.
``I thought, 'Gosh, this is somebody's pet,' '' Bowes said. He put his hand down in a friendly gesture and the bunny lunged and bit him.
Bowes began to walk home, nursing a sore hand with broken skin, but the rabbit followed him. A short time later, a nearby neighbor had to retreat up a hill after another aggressive jack rabbit forced her back.
Bowes had to get rabies shots and faces five additional vaccinations, though area health officials say it would be rare if the animal had rabies.
``If it were (rabid) it would make history,'' said David Yong, director of laboratory services for the county public health division. No rabbit has tested positive for rabies in Sonoma County in the past 16 years, Yang said.
You can actually thank the show Xena: Warrior Princess for that pic. There was actually an epiosde where a killer rabbit attacked Xena's sidekick. It was hysterical- very Monty Python.
Unless it was the one with Zoot.
Wild rabbits apparently don't understand the concept of "friendly" when encounering a creature they think is trying to kill them. It's never too early to call Kofi Annan ...
First The Birds, now The Bunnies.
Its a sign.
Anyone know if this was a suicide Talibunny?
The shame and embarassment.
I'm so sorry. Maybe this image will help.
I saw MP and the HG back in about 1978 when I was in the Navy, and this guy in the barracks I lived in bought the LP (yes, that was back in the days of LP records. In fact, that was so long ago that I think the cover sleeve was all written in Roman numerals or something...) Anyway, this guy played that album all the time, and I got to know quite a few of the skits by heart. In spite of that, I've never gotten tired of the movie. It still cracks me up to this day. And it's amazing at what a low budget movie it really is.
Here's an example: I read somewhere that the whole deal with them using clacking coconuts to simulate the sound of horse hooves wasn't just a gag done for stupid humor. Actually, to save time and money on production costs (the creators didn't want to have to spend time and money on training the actors how to ride real horses) they came up with the coconut idea. But still pretty funny, all things considered.
I went down to my hometown of Milwaukee back in the mid-80s and fortunately, several of my best friends were out on furlough!
There is a bar on ... I can't remember the street ... it's like Plankinton or Jackson ... but it is awesome, the club is below ground, it has a huge picture window, and the artist(s) play right in front of the glass and the crowd gets that urban street feel that makes you feel like you are in San Francisco or New Orleans, and not actually trapped into a dead end hellish tortured life in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (kidding). Well, we three Mensa boys walked on the sidewalk, saw the rapt attention of the crowd looking in our general direction ... and we had two profoundly different courses of action we could choose: 1.) We'd enjoy the lovely urban landscape of music and artisty that this club embodied, and walk on like mature adults; 2.) What we did.
You are going to have to believe this one ... I had no idea who the artist was until 10 years later ... my brother-in-laws sister told the story of the three guys mooning Steve Forbert at that same bar. She identified the same Twins-Brewers series that I attended earlier that night. The walls were closing in on me!
Who could doubt my honesty: "Really? Steve Forbert is good, too. What kind of a**holes would do something like that? Pffff. " People, you meet em wherever you go.
This wild rabbit is friendly.
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