Friday, August 13, 2004

You can't make this kind of thing up:

Unless you're Terry Pratchett. BBC reports that a burning rabbit destroyed a shed .

A burning rabbit scampered into a cricket club shed and caused £60,000-worth of damage in the ensuing blaze.

The animal was hiding in a pre-lit bonfire at Devizes Cricket Club in Wiltshire.

Soon after groundsmen lit the fire, the startled rabbit ran from the bonfire with its tail alight and headed for a nearby shed.

No remains were found, so the fire chief thinks the rabbit escaped.

Update: a later story says they found a rabbit skelton, so perhaps "white faced simonee" stayed "on hot cockolorum" after all.

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