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| 'Crazed Hare' Attacks Austrian Couple |
| 2007-04-16 |
| Two rabbit stories in one day. Mere coincidence? An elderly Austrian woman required hospital treatment after being attacked by what was described as a 'crazed hare.' Police were forced to shoot the rampaging beast before it could hurt anybody else. Traditionally, rabbits and hares are better known as lovers, not fighters. On Monday, however, a hare in Linz, Austria broke the mold, attacking an elderly woman and her husband, not to mention the police officers who were called to the scene. In a scene eerily reminiscent of the attack of the "most foul, cruel, and bad tempered" rabbit in the cult movie "Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail," "Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer! He's got huge, sharp-- eh-- he can leap about-- look at the bones, man!" the Linz hare assaulted a 74-year-old woman who was hanging laundry in her garden early Monday morning. The animal, described as a "crazed hare" in a statement by Linz police department, bit the woman's foot, causing her to fall. The unidentified woman, still under attack by the rampant hare, was eventually able to escape into her home, where her husband called the police before going outside to attempt to shoo the bunny away. When police arrived on the scene, they found the 78-year-old man fighting the hare off with a stick -- and losing. Police asked the man to go inside. When the hare refused to give up the fight, the police were forced to bring forth the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, take out the holy pin, then count to three, three being the number of the counting and the number of the counting being three, not four, neither two, excepting that they then proceeded directly to three; once the number three, being the third number, was reached, they lobbed the said Holy hand Grenade at the rabbit shoot and kill the animal. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 Was Jimmuh Carter in the area? |
| Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Elmaving4888 2007-04-16 22:56 |
| #1 No doubt the hare will turn out to be rabid or something. It seems Spiegel reporters aren't good at asking critical questions in small matters, either. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-04-16 17:28 |