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You’ll Never Guess What’s Killing Cars Parked at Denver’s Airport

Feb. 18, 2013 9:15am Liz Klimas

Bunnies Chewing Car Cables at Denver International Airport

(Image: CBS Local)

Travelers leaving their cars in the Denver International Airport parking lots might return to find their vehicles damaged by an unlikely culprit — bunnies.

CBS Local reported airport shuttle driver Michelle Anderson saying she saw dozens each morning hopping under cars to huddle where it’s warm. From there they’re known to chew through the ignition cables, causing hundreds to thousands of dollars worth of damage.

CBS Local reported that repairs are the responsibility of the vehicle owner and that most insurance companies don’t cover rabbit damage.

The bunny problem is bad enough that the airport is taking action against them. Measures include new fences to prevent burrowing and perches for hawks and eagles, which would prey upon the rabbits. CBS Local reported that some drivers are using coyote or fox urine on their wires as a deterrent. It also stated that the USDA Wildlife Service removes at least 100 bunnies from the airport area each month.

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Featured image: Nikola Bilic/Shutterstock.com.

(H/T: io9)

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GrumpyCat
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:13am
Around here all we have to do is introduce a rumor, “Bunnies taste good, improve sex, etc.”

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- science teacher
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:07pm
  Just eat them!
  
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- cemerius
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:09pm
  Bunnies DO taste good!!
  
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- WillG
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:12pm
  Come on now we all know what they are really hiding from. ManBearPig is real and he is dangerous. I am serial.
  
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- Gorp
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:50pm
  Colorado is taking away all of the guns so what are they going to use to get rid of the bunnies? Pellet guns will work if they aren’t banned. Slingshots? Long Handle 3 prong pitchforks? I know, 2X4s!
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:24pm
  Aw, look at that cute little bunny.
  
  IT’S COMING RIGHT FOR US!!
  
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- Heywood Jablome
  Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:25am
  Gorp: Maybe you could try urinating or vomitting on them. Then again, try parking in safe zones. Maybe they could install alarm buzzers in the parking lots. How about using the “buddy system”?
  
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txswalker
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:10am
After all the potsmoking allowed in CO. now those poor bunnies get the munchies

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- Winedude
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:19am
  Possibly the bunnies are happy that they’re living in Colorado and not in a hell-hole like Texas…
  
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- Pontiaku
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:28am
  troll much whinerdude?
  
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- cantstandlibs
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:28am
  winer-dude: troll, how about you just stay out of Texas and we’ll be happy.
  
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- OBummer the Great
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:18pm
  I guess Winedude has never been to Texas . It’s such a hellhole here that EVERYONE from both coasts are moving here. He must be stuck where he lives. I hope when (and when) Winedude moves to Texas that he doesn’t bring his pitiful political views with him. Keep trolling Winedude and hope when you get here that you insult some Texan right off the bat. That is where your skull will be anyway…right off the bat. Tell David Gregory, Cher and Barbara Streisand hello for us.
  
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- Colorado7972
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:42pm
  Well you kind of got it right, The Moron-brain DEAD liberal pot smokers that passed the law mostly all in Denver, rest state mostly anti pot people of intelligence. Maybe we could use these bunnies with some form of biological agent that doesn’t affect them, but would wipe out all brain dead liberals within proximity to the bunnies. Just a though.
  
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- MC Wombat
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:58pm
  @Winedude
  I lived in Colorado for 11 years & it’s a beautiful place, but don’t kid yourself into believing it’s Nirvana! Denver suburbs were not divine when it came to the cost of a modest home & utilites (water & heat were expensive.) Colorado income taxes were high. Driving on ice & snow were challenging (too many idiots believed a 4-wheel-drive vehicle meant you could safely drive 70 mph on a frozen freeway.) The Valley Highway (I-25) was a parking lot both ways most days. I was twice robbed at gunpoint in decent parts of the Denver area.
  In 1990 I moved to what you call a hell-hole. In Texas, I found a better-paying job, a 3400 sq ft home (same price my 1900 sq ft home cost in Littleton), & swimming pools that can be used unheated for 8 months a year. I found good schools for my kids, cheaper gasoline for my car, fewer burnt-out hippies & Liberal politicians, & at least as much happiness for me and my family as we had in Colorado.
  I pay NO state income tax, rarely drive on ice, & enjoy an 8-lane freeway during my 27-mile, 40-minute commute. The weather is hot in the summer & fantastic in the winter! The neighbors seem friendlier & there are no rabbits feeding on cars at airports in Texas. (DIA – now that’s a hell-hole!)
  I took extra money Texas has helped put in my pocket & bought a vacation home in the southern mountains of Colorado!
  Enjoy those pot parties, elitist Liberals, learn definition of hell-hole, & Texas Wine! Colorado wines are inferior – too cold for
  
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mygunsweetness
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:06am
Maybe the rabbits need to cut down on their pot smoking,LOL

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Sayre
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:02am
Those waskly wabbits!

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NigelTufnel
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:59am
Land conservation is working. Wildlife has not been this populous in a century. HIre some guys from the country side with some hav-a-hart traps. Haul em’ back to the wilderness where Hawks, coyote and fox reside.

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wilbstal
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:56am
get some Border Collie Dogs they will keep the rabbits on the run. I had one he did a great job on all rodents etc

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48Straights
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:55am
A link to a four day old news story about a bunny rabbit is current hard hitting news Betsy Morgan? You know ever since you can over from the Huffington Post and took control of TheBlaze this tabloid has gone down hill.

What about some real news from say like, today?

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- OBummer the Great
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:07pm
  48STRAIGHTS, ahh …..CNN would love to waste their time with this story if they believed the rabbits were republicans. Since CNN wastes everyone’s time who watches it anyway …..it only makes sense. I guess once CNN finds out the rabbits are from the GOP, and have muttered sentences around the subject of race that they can misreport and twist around they won’t bother with this story so you are correct. By the way, you got your own name wrong….it’s 58STATES which is, of course, how many states our beloved Politicizer In Chief thinks there are in this country. No, wait a minute he’s talking about the Koran….sorry about that.
  
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- 48Straights
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 3:43pm
  Lol
  
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wilbstal
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:51am
Eat the rabbits they are good. dont waste Gods natural resource he gave us. get a Gun bang bang eatem up

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wilbstal
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:48am
Get a shotgun and have some Cotton tail stew i eat it all the time. get off your dead Left Wing ass and do something useful

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- BostonHarold
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:48pm
  I wonder if the wire covering would taint the meat’s flavor? Bunnies need carrots and clover…
  
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teddyc73
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:43am
A real life Night of the Lepus.

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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:34am
We flush a trillion dollars down the sewer a year now, but still don’t have basic safety equipment. Forrest service will rigg 7 C-130′s to help fill in needs. Are kidding me??? That’s it? Hey can’t we pipe some h20 out thisa way? Also need largest water ballons existing please.

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carbonated
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:32am
Little bunny fru fru I don’t wanna see you, hopping under cars and chewing through the wires.

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txannie
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:31am
We’ve had bunnies living all around and under us for over 30 years and not once has a rabbit chewed any wiring on any one of the pieces of equipment or vehicles. Rats, mice and squirrels do, but not the rabbits. We do have pictures of momma bunnies killing and eating snakes getting to close to their nests, but not ever messing with electrical stuff. We let the wild cottontails nest in with the chickens because they will kill snakes trying to get eggs and chicks and they’ve never gone after the brooder heater or light wiring. Not sure I believe it’s the bunnies doing the damage.

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- CALLMEMSGT
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:51am
  I would agree Annie, sounds like “whistle pigs” aka ground hogs-they are very destructive. Wonder if the shuttle driver would know a rabbit from a ground hog.
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:41pm
  Never heard of rabbits chewing wires, squirrels, rats yes. I have never heard of a rabbit crawling into an engine compartment. Fried rabbit is better than chicken.
  
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hades3
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:29am
I would suggest whoever wrote this article check his facts. Insurance does cover “damage by animals,
under the Comprehensive section of the auto policy, provided the damage exceeds the deductible.

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- turkey13
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:36am
  Here in Okjlahoma we would just have 1 or 2 days a week where hunters could come in with rifels and shoot them. Rabbit is just as good as chicken.
  
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cassandra
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:26am
CNN would say it was Bush’s fault ?

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- 48Straights
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:01am
  CNN would not waste a second on this story, they have more respect for the intelligence of their audience and far better use of their bandwidth.
  
  But for TheBlaze reader, a fast breaking four day old fluffy bunny story is hard hitting news.
  
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- ICanComment
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:47am
  @48
  
  Hey, a lot of us here share your sentiment toward the “filler” stories, but insulting a publication’s readership isn’t exactly a productive means of influencing them. Short of some form of clairvoyance, how do you know that readers here aren’t visiting other sources?
  
  If you really want to steer people toward something better, please, by all means. (Honestly: I mean this in complete sincerity and am not employing sarcasm) Are you serious when you suggest CNN or HuffPo? Hypothetically, one could glean _something_ from the MSM, but the average reader would have to visit myriad MSM publications every day, just to filter out a mere few morsels of actual, verifiable news. It’s like the old cartoon of a giant timber being cut down to a toothpick, the scrap wood discarded. To me, even if I had the time it’s simply not worth the effort, so I visit several news aggregator sites. Granted, my solution isn’t ideal, and quite honestly, I would love to hear of a real source of news that constitutes something “easy,” but it’s just not happening anymore and hasn’t been happening for a long time. I’ll concede that the Blaze seems to be slacking a bit on the actual content as of late, so what’s your constructive solution?
  
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- OBummer the Great
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:59pm
  48STRAIGHTS, ahh …..CNN would waste their time with this story if they believed the rabbits were republicans. Since CNN wastes everyone’s time who watches it…it only makes sense. I guess once CNN finds out the rabbits are from the GOP, and have muttered sentences around the subject of race that they can misreport and twist around they won’t bother with this story so you are correct. By the way, you got your own name wrong….it’s 58STATES which is, of course, how many states our beloved Politicizer In Chief thinks there are in this country. No, wait a minute he’s talking about the Koran….sorry about that.
  
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- 48Straights
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 3:59pm
  Ican,
  I think that the liberal Betsy Morgan should be fired from the presidency of TheBlaze and a conservative that is a follower of Beck, his teachings, values, and knowledge base should be put in place.
  
  It is so painful for me, a Beck follower to see TheBlaze reduced to being a traffic driver for companies like Saturday Night Live & MSNBC.
  
  Beck started TheBlaze to report what the MSM refused to. Under Betsy TheBlaze refuses to report hardly any news.
  
  As I stated earlier Glenn has lost control of his product and it is now a sister publication of the Huffington Post. Unfortunately it is the product most people read first to get acquainted with Beck. If you only knew Beck from reading TheBlaze you would think he is not very well informed person.
  
  The liberals are in control of the main gate to the Glenn Beck empire, and sure are making him look like a low information fool.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:56pm
  @48…I would rather read a 4 day old story of bunnies eating anything over more of obozo’s agenda strategy for destroying America. Makes me too mad to enjoy the rest of the day every time I hear ‘that guys’ name. Makes me want to spit….see….I’d rather think about the bunnies….
  
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:25am
Gov. Hickenlooper & chicago cowboy Salazar unveiling Agenda 21 trails today Beck. Our air tankers are Korean war era, they are on last leg. We are a firefighting Free Zone, so bring a fire extinguisher if you visit this Colorado desert.

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mlimberg
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:22am
They taste like chicken….? Why not trap them?

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- RonThundrEagle
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:03am
  NO they taste like RABBIT LOL…. Not everything taste like chicken… Even Chicken don’t taste like chicken HAHAHAHAHAHAH
  
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woodyee
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:11am
Measures include new fences to prevent burrowing and perches for hawks and eagles…

…at an airport? Eh-que me?

Big bird in engine, really big bird fall down go boom…

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pizzaman87
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:50am
I wonder what they are doing with the rabbit after they remove them. I hope they are not just putting them to sleep, because that would be a waste. It would be a good way to feed some people at the shelter A nice rabbit dinner at the end of the month!

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- ashestoashes
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:03am
  Rabbits are legomorphs..not rodents..but where the bunnies are going..it is most likely the rats are going..the bunnies could chew the wires..but rats and mice most definitely will..the way to keep them form under your car’s hood is by placing something that smells displeasing to them…like strong smelling dryer sheets..or mint..or mothballs..
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:11am
  @ashes…very true…I had a Porsche in storage over a winter and the mice/rats completely stripped the insulation off the wiring inside and outside of the car…. a very expensive meal for the rodents on my dime.
  
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- Bill Clamsky
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:17am
  Where’s Elmer Fudd when you need him????
  
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- BigTBoom
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:48am
  Bill, they may need a more successful hunter than Fudd, he’s been hunting the same rabbit as long as I’ve known him.
  
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paulwbrown
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:46am
Good thing bunnies are not on a federal protected list or else it would simply be too bad for the drivers.

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Stevsea
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:44am
So dat’s where dat left toin at Albuquerque takes you!

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- katie5
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:03am
  It’s wabbit season…he, he, he, he…
  
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gyro
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:43am
This seems wrong I have a lot of rabbits here and they spend a lot of time under cars and I meen alot and they are not eating wires ?
Bush did it !

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:40am
I can see the calls from PETA and the eco-terrorists:

BAN CARS – Mother Nature strikes back via super bunnies!!!

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- fastgen1
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:00am
  Back in the day in Idaho we used to have rabbit drives, herd them into a large snow fence and do em in, by the 1000s. I was a kid and it was great fun….Take that Pita
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:47am
  Greasy oily ignition wire?? They do chew alot.
  
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BlasberryStrat
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:39am
Uhhh…. I got nothing.

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- sligresda
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 10:25am
  it’s wabbit season!
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:35pm
  I guessed ethanol until I saw the pic. Stew or dutch oven works well.
  
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TC
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:35am
Those wascallay wabbits!

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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 5:31pm
  Sorry, this is bogus. Rabbits are not chewing wires. I don’t see them even able to reach wires. Rats and mice? Yeah, I have had that happen.
  
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