Yes, there is a Great Easter Bunny Hunt.
On Easter Sunday in America, we’re accustomed to Easter egg hunts. Children wake up Sunday morning then run gaily about the house looking for hidden eggs and baskets full of goodies. Afterwards, parents punish their children by forcing them to attend Easter Mass.
The secular portion of holidays like Easter and Christmas were invented to deal with the stress of actually having to go to church. On Easter, New Zealanders seem to enjoy their secularity with a twist of irony and pure violence.
The Great Easter Bunny Hunt is a charity organized in Southern New Zealand. The event does not defy its title.
This year over 23,000 bunnies met their death within the scopes of a few hundred Elmer Fudds. Says one trigger-happy bunny killer: “We kept going for the full 24 hours with hunters always ready to shoot.” Jesus.
The hunters say the bunny population is out of control and the event really rids annoyed farmers of crop-eating wascally wabbits.
Unfortunately for the bunnies, not everyone is resurrected on Easter Sunday.
April 25, 2011 at 3:06 pm, john charles webb jr said:
simply “HARE RAZING” !
April 25, 2011 at 3:08 pm, john charles webb jr said:
KILL A FUCKIN’ BUNNY FOR JEHOVAH :
how it all started . . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaORknS1Dk
April 25, 2011 at 3:11 pm, john charles webb jr said:
rabid Jews ?
April 26, 2011 at 12:52 am, Lorraine Keshner said:
Were you dropped on your head as a child?
April 26, 2011 at 12:51 am, Lorraine Keshner said:
You have no heart…..
April 26, 2011 at 12:49 am, Lorraine Keshner said:
People never cease to make me ashamed of being human… Shame on you to label someone a pest… and teach children and teenagers alike that it’s all right to kill someone for no other reason than “cause you want to” ….. I didn’t realize New Zealand had such cold, heartless people…. and using Easter, as an excuse to do this…. Let me tell you…. When I think of New Zealand from now till forever… All I’ll think of is their people using the Lord’s Day as a reason to murder and maim thousands? I don’t believe you thought this was all right…. thousands of innocent animals who had as much right as you do to live…. Shame on New Zealand… In the name of God, I’m sure you made him weep with saddness….
April 26, 2011 at 11:51 pm, Proud Kiwi said:
Lorraine, I don’t know why you call them some”one” and not some”thing”. I hope you realise that they are animals not human. Also, in eradicating these pests, there are many more vulnerable and endangered animals that have a better chance of survival.
April 26, 2011 at 3:44 am, g.rogers said:
FYI, New Zealand’s only native land animals are birds, lizards and 2 species of bat. All other animals were introduced by man. The cute defensless bunnies you are crying over have destroyed rare native plant life resulting in loss of habitat for native species. Attempts in the past to introduce predators to controll them failed as they prefered the defenseless native animals. As a result, in order to prevent further loss of extremely rare native species, hunting, trapping, and poisons, carried out by man, are the only way to keep rabbit, australian possum, and the introduced predators at bay. So please, keep the knee jerk reactions for enviroments and countries you actually know something about.
April 26, 2011 at 4:15 am, Anon said:
Thanks, g.rogers, that’s pretty much what I would’ve said too!
I guess the earlier posters don’t give a cr*p about the native species that are decimated due to the lack of food/shelter because of the bunnies’ appetites, or due to hunting by the introduced predators that were supposed to have controlled the bunnies but found the native species to be easier prey…
Maybe they’d prefer that the bunnies died an agonizing death due to poison or myxamatosis…???…
April 26, 2011 at 5:44 am, Stu said:
the hunt starts friday morning and runs for 24 hrs… enough tim to get home to spend easter with the family. I attened the great easer bunny hunt and after seeing the 3 paddocks that had resently been seeded (at the same time) and 1 was just barron from the rabits eating it. for every 1000 rabbits that were killed 250 units of sheep can be feed… wat do you like in you sunday roast… lamb or RABBIT