# He Bit the HEAD Off a BUNNY?!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 17, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715 "2002-10-17T19:07:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@firagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/firagon)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/21 "2002-10-18T07:22:47Z")
Poor bunny… I have one too.
Someone needs to introduce the guy to the killer rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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### Author:  [@ralphthemuppet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralphthemuppet)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/22 "2002-10-18T08:10:15Z")
Fetch me the Holy Hand Grenade 😃
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### Author:  [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/23 "2002-10-18T11:38:34Z")
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> \*\*I wanna know what kind of shit this guy was drinking. I’ve been a teenie bit tipsy in my day, but never did I get the urge to partially ingest rodents. \*\*
Must…resist…nitpick. Resist…resis… Ahhhh! I can’t do it!
A rabbit is not a rodent.
(Hmmm. I feel strangely better)
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> **Our friend December might suggest at this point that President Clinton was known to do the same thing.**
Nahh, but Jimmy Carter might have, given the chance. 😃
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### Author:  [@Zoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoff)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/24 "2002-10-18T12:28:21Z")
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> _Originally posted by WSLer_
> I have a legal question. If, according to the news story, the police have the photos of this bloody vaginal fart performing this atrocity, why would he plead not guilty? The DA has him dead to rights and I would think he would get a lighter sentence with a guilty plea. Or am I wrong? Legal Dopers, your views?
Pleading guilty immediately is a hare-brained scheme. Get it? “Hare-brained”? I tell you, I’m the Blackstone of vaudeville.
Generally speaking, it’s always wise to make an initial plea of not guilty and force the government to prove its case. You’re not going to get a lighter sentence by immediately pleading guilty because you don’t have any leverage. Plead not guilty and then enter negotiations for a plea bargain.
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/25 "2002-10-18T13:14:12Z")
As far as the bat and dove thing, as far as the bat goes, Ozzy maintains that he thought it was a rubber bat. Apparently, a fan tossed it to him, and he thought it was fake. Not that he wouldn’t do it anyhow, but in that specific case, it was an accident.
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### Author:  [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/26 "2002-10-18T13:40:03Z")
No no no, **E-Sabbath**. It was part of a regular stage routine where he would pull a rubber bat out of a bucket and bite its “head” off. One performance, however, a stage member replaced the rubber bat with a knocked out real bat. Ozzie didn’t realize it until the blood started. So yeah, he thought it was a rubber bat.
As for the dove, they’re just glorified pigeons anyhow. The less of them the better.
The rabbit thing pretty sick though. I wonder how long it took him to chew through the neck…it isn’t little like a dove or bat neck.
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### Author:  [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/27 "2002-10-18T14:09:04Z")
::hack,ack…phhhbt…ploo…pht.::
Sorry. I had a hare in my mouth.
I’m so sorry. It’s awful, really.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/28 "2002-10-18T14:28:01Z")
A watched rabbit never boils.
Glenn Close
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### Author:  [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/29 "2002-10-18T14:39:15Z")
This guy is dead wrong on the composition of Welsh Rarebit.
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### Author:  [@ralphthemuppet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralphthemuppet)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/30 "2002-10-18T14:49:34Z")
When the guy bit the head off did he have anything to Watership Down?
\*\* is that bad enough for an instant ban?\*\*
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/31 "2002-10-18T15:00:34Z")
Oh. I should have checked the old memories before posting. Maybe the fan tossed him the _dwarf_ and he bit the head off that.
It’s Ozzy, you never know…
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/32 "2002-10-18T15:12:03Z")
I enjoy eating bunnies, but they should be killed in as quick and painless a matter as practicable. Of course, getting nailed by an owl is probably pretty terrifying, but at least it’s not wasteful; I doubt if this wrestler even cooked the rabbit afterwards.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/33 "2002-10-18T15:33:09Z")
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> _Originally posted by Eve \*
> Bunny heads are pretty big, aren’t they, if you include the ears and all? How would you even_ fit\* an entire one in your mouth
I’m sure there’s plenty of room in there if you don’t have too much brains taking up space.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/34 "2002-10-18T15:35:01Z")
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> \*Originally posted by E-Sabbath \*
> Maybe the fan tossed him the _dwarf_ and he bit the head off that.
[Gimli]
_Nobody_ tosses a _dwarf_!
[/Gimli]
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/35 "2002-10-18T15:42:17Z")
Rabbits aren’t rodents?
Humm - I guess that means I have to quit refering to the boys as overgrown devil rodents…
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### Author:  [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/36 "2002-10-18T17:10:49Z")
…and call them “Lucifer’s lagomorphs” instead. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/37 "2002-10-18T19:17:39Z")
Well, I’ll admit that’s pretty gross (and certainly unsanitary) but there’s hardly anything unusual about eating rabbit. You usually cook 'em first, but I think it’s important we not get hung up on that sort of petty detail. I don’t think this is even particularly cruel. Decapitation isn’t exactly a lingering death. Yes, it was gross, and yes, bunnies are cute, but so what? If he’d used a hatchet to take its head off, no one would care. If he’d wrung its neck with his bare hands, no one would care. If he’d bitten the head off a less appealing animal, no one would care.
I am particularly disgusted that the pair of 'em are facing _felony_ charges. Because we don’t have enough of a backlog in our courts as it is, without wasting their time with pointless, sentimental crap like this.
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### Author:  [@firagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/firagon)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/38 "2002-10-19T18:07:53Z")
I believe rabbits are lagomorphs?
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### Author:  [@firagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/firagon)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/39 "2002-10-19T18:08:55Z")
Oops, didn’t notice **divemaster’s** comment.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2002, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-bit-the-head-off-a-bunny/132715/40 "2002-10-19T18:18:00Z")
Be vewwy vewwy quiet…
As you beat this brain-dead clown to a pulp.
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