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Hungarian Highway Surprise

April 17, 2007 at 10:12 AM | 0 Comments

An update on travel conditions in Europe: Hungary's got a hundred extra bunnies running around, if you're interested. That's because commuters and travelers got stuck in a six-hour traffic jam on the M1 between Budapest and Vienna yesterday after a truck carrying rabbits to the slaughterhouse was involved in a crash.

In scenes more reminiscent of animated movies like The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, 5000 bunnies came tumbling out across the highway and held up traffic while they lay in the sun and relaxed. By the end of the day, the statistics were not really favoring the rabbits: 400 died in the crash, 4400 got collected up again, and just 100 made the dash for freedom. Perhaps they'd heard that Bruno the Bear's brothers are on the loose in Austria and they love snacking on rabbits. Whatever the case, next time you're stuck in a European highway traffic jam, spare a thought for the bunnies who won't be ending up on dinner tables after all.

[Photo: rossjl]

Related Stories:
· 5000 Rabbits Block Traffic in Hungary [CBS]
· Beware of Bruno's Brothers [Jaunted]

Highways

Russian to the Highway

August 28, 2006 at 1:26 PM | 0 Comments

We kept the above photo mysterious, just cause we can. Check out this photo collection of recently constructed Russian highways and byways. We have an impressive number of highways in the U.S., but many  of them are, you know, full. These bad boys are smoothly paved and rather bereft of traffic--maybe they're Lada-free zones? Anyway, think of it as civil engineer porn.