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Grape rabbits:

The worst plague of rabbits in recent memory crippled the wine industry in France's Bordeaux region as the harvest neared the end of its first week Monday.

Harvest began Tuesday last week in the exclusive Medoc area of southwestern France, and wine makers are reporting massive losses in their grape crops.

"More than 15 percent of our harvest has been swallowed up by the Bugs Bunny gang," Bruno Von der Heyden of the five-century-old Chateau de Malleret wrote in a blog. A neighbor of Von der Heyden said she caught 500 of the long-eared munchers on her land alone.

And the bunnies have an extra sting in the cottontail -- they are eating the best the vineyards have to offer.

A few years back, you little Froggies pitched an upside-down hissy fit over use of the name "Bordeaux" on American wine bottles and sued to make American vineyards stop using the name.

Payback's a bitch.

Local growers have called for culling measures to be taken, including bringing in marksmen to hunt the "wabbits" or ferrets to dine on them.

Won't work. As any of us stupid, illiterate Americans can tell you, it's impossible to kill Bugs Bunny. You're screwed.

Now start playing nice or we'll send the Roadrunner.