Monster rabbit terrorizes England

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Schadenfroh

Schadenfroh

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Why do things like this always seem to occur in England?

LONDON (Reuters) - 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."
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Start the Monty Python jokes!
 
BW86

BW86

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I *warned* you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you *knew*, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little *bunny*, isn't it?
 
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Anonemous

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Originally posted by: BW86
I *warned* you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you *knew*, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little *bunny*, isn't it?
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quick use the holy grenade of antioch!
 
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paulney

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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Start the Monty Python jokes!
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Yeah, i started reading the article and was like: Wallace and Grommit? What are they smoking. Obviously, it's a rabbit from Monty Python! :D
 
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imported_LoKe

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Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
It's the Easter Bunny!
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That is made of Win and Awesome.
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:thumbsup:

Best part was the elevator and/or the icecream.
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im kinda likin the part where the girl screams and then she turns around and its in the window. lmao
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I liked that part too, but it's overdone in almost any horror movie, me thinks. It's just not as funny. :)
 
Firsttime

Firsttime

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I didn't think Monty Python when I first saw this, I guess Wallace and Gromit was more recent. :D
 
Malak

Malak

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I hate having to post in these topics twice and not being able to say repost, since it's a repost from another forum, so I'll just quote myself here.

TIM:Too late!
ARTHUR:What?
TIM:There he is!
ARTHUR:Where?
TIM:There!
ARTHUR:What, behind the rabbit?
TIM:It is the rabbit.
ARTHUR:You silly sod!
TIM:What?
ARTHUR:You got us all worked up!
TIM:Well, that's no ordinary rabbit!
ARTHUR:eek:hh.
TIM:That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
ROBIN:You tit! I soiled my armour I was so scared!
TIM:Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
GALAHAD:Get stuffed!
TIM:He'll do you up a treat, mate.
GALAHAD:eek:h, yeah?
ROBIN:You mangy Scots git!
TIM:I'm warning you!
ROBIN:What's he do, nibble your bum?
TIM:He's got huge, sharp-- eh-- he can leap about-- look at the bones!
ARTHUR:Go on, Bors. Chop his head off!
BORS:Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up!
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