If I were a remotely nice person, I would not laugh at this till my mascara ran. But I am not a remotely nice person, so that is pretty much what happened.
(Cameraman: “But I yelled look out, why didn’t it . . . oh, right . . .”)
I also like this bit:
Sure, it would have been OK if you stomped any of the others into a pulp, but nooo, you had to kill the special one.
Hmmmm…the bunny didn’t suffer…he just died.
The poor cameraman, however, is distraught!
I think that this is some joke, howsomever.
I did like the ‘Rare’ part in the headline, tho.
A German rare rabbit? I’m more familiar with the Welsh version.
This story probably even reached national news because we had a hugely successful romantic comedy a few years back called “Keinohrhasen” (No-ear bunnies, or Earless bunnies). These stuffed toys (that resemble the one made in the film) are also pretty popular, and I’m sure many people would have loved to see a Keinohrhase for real.
It’s something they tell all the new employees: If Eve is in a good mood, you don’t want to ask her why.
Well jeezuz, they could have just used one of those for the story, and kept schtum on the stepping tragedy.
I for one wouldn’t have known the difference, and could have been spared the non hare raising details.
How hard would it have been to lop the ears off one of the other bunnies and go, “No, umm, see? Til is just fine!”
(“And then the director was so upset that Til had died and the other bunnies lived that he stomped them *all *to death. The end.” “Oh, Mr. Mike!”)
As I’m still waking up, I thought the title said EASTER Bunny!
In any case, Mr.Mike would have used a .45.
…is Eve short for Evil…?
Well, in other news, Steiff has a new model of stuffed bunny. That “Knöpfe im Ohr” thing isn’t going to work out this time.
More like “Eve of Destruction”
The earless bunny, it is a-croakin’
The zoo director, he’s a-chokin’
“If you’d killed the others, I wouldn’t think twice
But that particular rabbit was sellin’ merchandise
And now I’ll have to dump it all at half-price”
Eve read the story online, about that dead bunny
Started laughing so hard, her make-up got runny
Can’t tell the people at work, cause they’ll look at her funny
So she’ll post in online, at the SDMB
Says “It’s okay there, they’re all as sick as me.”
The first thing I thought of was the scene from the tragically short-lived tv series, “The Class,” where Hollie Ollenbogen has an…incident at the petting zoo. Scene starts at around 5:40, but watch the whole thing if you want a good laugh today. Hell, watch the whole series. 
Standing ovation for Little Nemo