From the Sacramento Bee:

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - Sonoma County musician Doug Bowes will remember this Easter season as the one where he happened upon the Easter Bunny, and it attacked him. Bowes was walking near his home at about 11 a.m. Wednesday when the attack occurred. A small, gray jack rabbit bounded toward him from a nearby fence.

"I thought, 'Gosh, this is somebody's pet,' " Bowes said. He put his hand down in a friendly gesture and the bunny lunged and bit him.

Bowes began to walk home, nursing a sore hand with broken skin, but the rabbit followed him. A short time later, a nearby neighbor had to retreat up a hill after another aggressive jack rabbit forced her back.

Bowes had to get rabies shots and faces five additional vaccinations, though area health officials say it would be rare if the animal had rabies.

"If it were (rabid) it would make history," said David Yong, director of laboratory services for the county public health division. No rabbit has tested positive for rabies in Sonoma County in the past 16 years, Yang said.

-- Bob in WI (bjwick@hotmail.com), March 30, 2002

Answers

Maybe Bonzai Bunny has had enough of the Easter commerilization!!

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), March 30, 2002.

Mitch why does the easter bunny hide his eggs? Bob se,ks.

-- bobco (bobco@kans.com), March 30, 2002.

Score one for the bunnies of the world.

-- Najia (najia274@yahoo.com), March 30, 2002.

That must of been the bunny from "Holy Grail" big sharp pointy teeth!

-- Kathy (catfish201@hotmail.com), March 30, 2002.

With the Knights that say "Neat.."

I had a rabbit that I would let run around the barnyard during the day and he would come to be put away at night. He would chase the cat (and mount him if caught, much to my nuetered male cat's surprise) but then started attacking my husband and son, who were hardly ever in the barnyard but never me. It could be possible that he was a pet that was defending his territory.

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), March 30, 2002.