Wednesday 16 May 2007

Serial rabbit thief sent to chokey



“Light-paws” McGraw, well known light fingered rabbit around these parts, has been sent to the local bunny nick for a 6 month stretch.

Caught red-handed snaffling cookies in a local coffee emporium (pictured), he was handcuffed by local police (who had to put them around his neck as his paws were too weeny-tiny) and charged at the local police station.

When the case came to court, McGraw asked for 207 other offences to be taken into consideration, including multiple counts of carrot-rustling, lettuce shredding and beetroot abuse. McGraw also admitted to pushing rabbit droppings up the exhaust pipe of a BMW X5, but the judge let him off this as he thought it “bloody good fun”.

Although the rabbit law community has embraced restorative justice, it was worked out that the costs and time involved in having McGraw apologise to all his victims would tie up the local constabulary for the next 3 years. As a compromise the owner of the coffee shop was allowed to make rude gestures at him for 15 minutes before he was led away to start his custodial sentence.

The price of crime is brutal around here.

STOP PRESS: McGraw has escaped from his medium security prison burrow by apparently tunnelling out. Strange that, for a rabbit..

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