Victoria, CA (AP): On the heels of plans to cull the rabbits at the University of Victoria, students have begun to notice signs of aggression from the normally docile animals. Joan Boatswain, a 3rd year psychology student, was confronted by a black and white rabbit while eating her lunch outside the university library.
"I thought he wanted my burrito," Boatswain told reporters, "but the next thing I know he was taking a piece out my ankle." Similar incidents have been reported by other students, especially after dark.
"A couple of black and white rabbits chased me back to my dorm," said "Darcy," who did not want her real name used for fear of reprisals. "I'm on the track team, so I could outrun them, but I had to use all of my speed. The one wearing the red bandana was fast." The student admitted being intoxicated at the time, and acknowledged that the article of clothing may have been the rabbit's natural colouring, but says she's now fearful of crossing campus alone at night.
Public Relations officer Bud Kanzane, when asked about the incidents, dismissed them as "exaggerations," and vehemently rejected claims that a drug previously administered to nearly 200 rabbits, intended to neuter the animals, had failed in its purpose, and had even unleashed an unexpected aggression in the rodents.
"The day I see a rabbit with a 'bloods'-style bandana coming at me," scoffed Kanzane, "is the day I check myself into the psych ward at Vic General."
UVic students, meanwhile, are not taking any chances in an "us vs. them" war that many claim is "escalating."
"Mr. Kanzane doesn't walk the campus at night," said Boatswain in reponse to the PR man's bluff confidence. "He gets into his car and goes back to his cushy Oak Bay house. But for those of us who live with these [expletive] things, you can feel the tension."
Only time will tell if the cull-threatened rabbits at the university will accept their dreary fate, or start bringin' it Monty Python and the Holy Grail style.
I can't stop laughing at the name Bud Kanzane! That's going to be my new battle cry.
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