This sounds rather comical, and I would love to see 5000 rabbits at once, munching on grass and doing binkies in happiness...but I know that 5000 rabbits in a truck does not mean something good. I would rather be ignorant about this and not know what is going on, because to picture it and to think about it makes me so sad for the 4400 that were caught...they survived one horrific ordeal already- a car crash on a major highway - with big huge cars hundreds of times bigger than them coming at them at high speeds. Let them live in the fields! Leave them be! Poor bunnies!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/16/AR2007041600500.html
Rabbits Block Traffic in Hungary
The Associated PressMonday, April 16, 2007; 9:48 AM
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Five thousand rabbits blocked a highway Monday, tying up traffic after the truck that was carrying them collided with another vehicle and overturned.
Neither driver was hurt, but some 500 rabbits were killed, authorities said.
A fireman puts a rabbit into a cage after truck transporting rabbits collided with a vehicle, and some 5,000 rabbits ran in all directions on the M1 speedway near Bicske, 35 kms west of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, April 16, 2007. It took several hours until the rabbits could be collected and traffic returned to normal on the speedway connecting Budapest with Vienna. (AP Photo/MTI, Ferenc Fuezesi) (Ferenc Fuezesi - AP)
The M1 highway _ the main road between the capitals of Hungary and Austria _ was closed for hours while authorities gathered up the animals, Highway Patrol Spokeswoman Viktoria Galik said.
By midday, 4,400 bunnies had been rounded up, but 100 were still roaming the fields surrounding the highway.
"Those 100 are free to go. We will not collect them," Galik said.The ending wasn't so happy for the ones that were recaptured. They were expected to complete the trip to a
slaughterhouse, authorities said.
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Suuure, it was a crash. I bet when they recover the truck cab voice recorder they'll hear a high pitched voice from somewhere in the back saying "let's roll."
i sure hope it says that. bunnies are smarter than you may think! i hope the 100 freed bunnies are doing binkies and eating all the grass they can with butterflies on their noses in the sunshine.
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