They Just Want to Join the Mile Hare Club

From the AP

MILAN, Italy - Wild hares at Milan's Linate airport seem to have only one thing on their mind, and their excessive mating and growing numbers have blocked takeoffs, landings and radar systems.

Officials on Sunday mounted a daylight raid to keep these furry creatures off the runways, part of a twice-annual capture to keep the airport population under control.

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Blowing whistles and waving their arms frantically, some 200 volunteers spooked the hares out of their holes and into waiting nets.

Usually the hare hunts takes place overnight, when the airport's runways aren't terribly busy, but because there were so many hares this season, officials mounted a daylight capture so volunteers could better catch their bounding prey.

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I think I'll just let everyone form their own joke on this one. I will add that, in a story about over-sexed hares, the writer could have made a better word choice in that last paragraph than 'mounted'.