Bite Of The Lepus

Back in 1972, Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun and DeForest Kelly--notable actors all--made a most forgettable film entitled Night of the Lepus. OTR likes the film's theme as presented by IMDB.com: Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the southwest!!

Fast forward forty years into the age of environmental enlightenment and we now have something called soy-based wiring replacing the petroleum product used over the past century. OTR thinks this is a fine idea as long as it does not introduce any seriously negative variables into life's already complex formula. Unfortunately, there seems to be an issue involving rabbit terror and Denver International Airport. The rabbits have developed a taste for the soy-based wiring found in new automobiles. Travelers who park their cars there for a week or so are returning home to find that they will barely start or not start at all.

You may ask why OTR thinks this is terrorism. For starters, any readers who have enjoyed the pleasures of the new Denver airport know that, at 25 miles from town, they seem to be doing so from Kansas. Follow that with long-term shutdowns for blizzards, structural collapses from snow weight, crumbling runways, unpredictable highway conditions and no rail link to the city and you get the idea. Add to this list the fact that rabbits do not hibernate. That means they are out there waiting for your soy-based wiring in the dead of winter when the food supply get a bit low on the vast plain that is this airport. No traveler facing a foot of snow and an hour's drive to town needs to face the terror of nibbled wiring. Getting underway in this circumstance will be more complex than dropping a new battery in the car. It's almost enough to make one take the bus.

OTR wishes the story would end there, but it doesn't. In time, travelers may have to face a new strain of super-healthy rabbits due to the change in diet. And we can only speculate about the threats urban rodents present once they discover soy-based wiring. Fortunately, this is another story. Today's terror rabbit threat is real and you can read more about it here.

Postscript: Night of the Lepus is a complete howler. If you like B movie cult classics, this is your film.

Source: Steve T via Moonbattery