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Chicago's bunny brigades
Chicago Tribune ^
| 7/27/07
| Colleen Mastony
Posted on 07/27/2007 10:58:32 AM PDT by Huntress
Along a gritty stretch of Harrison Street just west of the Dan Ryan Expressway, cars and trucks zoom past in a whoosh of hot air and and blowing dust. Horns blare, sirens scream and every few minutes a city bus rumbles past, belching exhaust. In the background, the skyline rises like a mountain range of glass and steel.
This is the urban jungle -- teeming with crowds, booming to a cacophony of sound, alive in a whirl of motion. But look closely. There -- along the sidewalk -- an Eastern cottontail rabbit hops down the cracked concrete. It perks its ears for a moment -- alert to someone watching. Then it bounds into the scraggly bushes along the edge of a low-slung brick building, its white fuzzy tail disappearing into the brush.
It might seem an improbable sighting. A near miracle that such a creature could survive such an inhospitable environment. But survive it has, so much so that in recent years the urban rabbit has become as ubiquitous as the pigeons toddling around Daley Plaza or the squirrels that scurry through the trees in Lincoln Park.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalrights; bunnies; chicago; environment; rabbits; vermin
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Today, the cottontail is the new urbanite, tramping along our avenues like a bucktoothed hipster, lolling on the grass in Daley Bicentennial Park after an all-you-can-eat picnic.
The reporter should submit this line to the Bulwer- Lytton contest.
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
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posted on
07/27/2007 10:58:37 AM PDT
by
Huntress
To: Huntress
She writes like a verbose 7th grade girl in love with her English teacher.
To: Huntress
Chicago. Bunnies. Thought this might about Playboy.
What a disappointment.
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:06:14 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: Huntress; Toddsterpatriot
This is a miracle. I wonder if the acres of open space that constitute the UIC campus immediately to the southwest played a role? /s
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:07:36 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Huntress
The big brown eyes, the stately, alert ears, the twitching of a cute little button nose...
a faint crack is heard over the traffic and the bunny flips over dead.
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:09:06 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: CaptRon
Sadly, those bunnies were last seen years ago in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin before heading to points unknown.
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:09:11 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Huntress
The rabbit of Caerbannog
- [clop clop clop]
- [whinny whinny]
- GALAHAD:
- They're nervous, sire.
- ARTHUR:
- Then we'd best leave them here and carry on on foot. Dis-mount!
- TIM:
- Behold the cave of Caerbannog!
- ARTHUR:
- Right! Keep me covered.
- GALAHAD:
- What with?
- ARTHUR:
- W-- just keep me covered.
- TIM:
- Too late!
- [dramatic chord]
- ARTHUR:
- What?
- TIM:
- There he is!
- ARTHUR:
- Where?
- TIM:
- There!
- ARTHUR:
- What, behind the rabbit?
- TIM:
- It is the rabbit.
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:17:02 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
To: MrB
... followed by the aromatic smell of stew.
To: CaptRon
There, there. Maybe this will help.
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:20:14 AM PDT
by
Huntress
(Those who surrender liberty for security will have neither. --- Benjamin Franklin)
To: Huntress
I appreciate your attempt to help, but all I get is a red x!
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:21:47 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: Huntress
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:22:11 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
("Bah weep graaagnah wheep ni ni bong.")
To: Huntress
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:22:39 AM PDT
by
Huntress
(Those who surrender liberty for security will have neither. --- Benjamin Franklin)
To: CaptRon
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:23:30 AM PDT
by
Huntress
(Those who surrender liberty for security will have neither. --- Benjamin Franklin)
To: Huntress; T'wit
The bunnies are slowly taking over the Chicago metro area in the last couple of years. I live in a northern suburb on one acre. They have destroyed my floral landscaping - echinacea, liatris, daylily are amongst their favorites. They're probably eaten $100-200 worth of perennials. So, in lieu of waiting for a coyote to randomly find our property, I instead just took up a new career as a Rabbit Hunter :-).
To: Darksheare
Like I said, I appreciate your attempt to help...
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:25:36 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: Huntress
Sorry, I thought you posted the big rabbit!
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:26:31 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
In our area the recent explosion in the urban rabbit population was followed by more urban hawks, eagles, and owls.
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:30:00 AM PDT
by
toast
To: Huntress
The rabbit hop hops
Straight into rush hour traffic
Oops! Now it's roadkill
I haiku of death inspired by the Chicago Tribune. Thank you.
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:30:31 AM PDT
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: CaptRon
Heh heh heh.
I’d prefer the ex-bunnies hopping around, but such is life.
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:37:29 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
("Bah weep graaagnah wheep ni ni bong.")
To: Darksheare
Still, that’s one helluva rabbit...
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posted on
07/27/2007 11:39:14 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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