Airport closes as Rabbits & Hares run Riot!
By jennybianca
@jennybianca (12912)
Australia
June 18, 2007 10:57pm CST
I saw this on the TV news last night, & ot was in the newspaper this morning.
At Milan Airport, hares & rabbits have been causing difficulties to planes & radar. The animals ad been passing in front of the ground radar, & creating false alarms.
So authorities closed the airport for three hours as staff & volunteers went on a "hare" race. Eventually 57 hares & four rabbits were caught. They were taken to nearby nature reserves.
Have a look at the great photo attached.
Story & photo come from here:
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21923495-401,00.html
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10 responses
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
19 Jun 07
Here at the Minneapolis International Airport in Minnesota they have brought in a lot of different types of hawks as predators for this same type of problem. No more rabbits etc getting sucked up into jet engines now. It seems to have done the trick. I wonder if the news or airport commision reports how many hawks have been sucked into the jets engines though? Hmmm?
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
20 Jun 07
Thats good thinking, to use natural predators.
Our airport has problems with flocks of birds, & yes, they do get sucked up.
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@pramodthakur (2365)
• India
19 Jun 07
Seems airport is near forest zone thats why hare etc animals are running on airport. These are small creatures but can cause major damage to Aeroplane and passenges at a time whenever rabbit etc collided at airport. Airport authorities must take precautionary measures and try to shift such animals to far area. They can take help of forest department also. Even after shifting, there is every chance of returning back so monitoring for some time is essential to ensure complete shifting. Generally it is seen that animals do not forget their natural place at once.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
20 Jun 07
They returned the hares to the same forest reserve, which I thought was silly as they will most likely return.
@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
19 Jun 07
I saw this on the news and thought it so funny. They were trying to heard those critters off the runways. The bunnies ears where so long, we wished we had a few of those. We do have our own rabbits and are glad for it. Ours have never been a problem though. Thanks for sharing this with all of Mylot and giving me another chuckle.
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@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
20 Jun 07
Am not splitting hairs I just think the critters that are rabbits, bunnies, hares are wonderful although they can be a nuisance.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
20 Jun 07
I wouldn't mind betting that you hit the spot. Overpopulation makes a lot of sense.
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@66jerseygirl (3877)
• United States
19 Jun 07
thanks for posting this! omg! I can't believe they had to chase 57 hares,lol. i know they were tired when they were done.Do they know what made them congregate at the airport?
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
20 Jun 07
They didn't report why they congregated at the airport, but another My Lotter suggested over population.
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
19 Jun 07
Wow, isn't that something. You sure would not ever in your wildest dreams think that animals could be that much of a problem. I am glad they took them somewhere else instead of hurting them.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
19 Jun 07
Yes I was watching it on TV and I thought it was pretty neat. I glad they were set free and did not end up on the dinner table.
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@retardedrugrat (4791)
• Canada
19 Jun 07
LOL! This is hilarious to be honest.
I mean, we have all these so called terrorist threats, yet in Italy, everyone at the airport is in danger because of rabbits and hares running riot on the runways.
Thanks for sharing this story though. If only everything in life were so simple as catching a few Rabbits and Hares to be relocated lol.
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@bluemoon07 (13)
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19 Jun 07
To me it seems a very funny report.I enjoyed it though it caused so many travelers and airport authority a bad time.Sometime this type of funny acts from animals stir our day to day monotonous life a cool stuff of big fun.
I enjoyed it. ha ha ha
