January 08, 2005
KILL THE WABBIT
Gardiner man facing charge he cooked, ate a pet rabbitPosted by Jeff at January 8, 2005 03:03 PM | TrackBack
Gardiner – A Gardiner man is facing felony charges after cooking his roommate's pet rabbit and then eating the animal, police said.
Mark Wallace of South Mountain Road, stands accused of the gruesome act that resembled a scene from the movie "Fatal Attraction."
Wallace's roommate had kept the rabbit for years in an outside hutch. The beloved bunny had a name and was regarded as a companion domestic animal, Ulster County sheriff's deputies said.
While the roommate was out, Wallace, 40, killed, gutted and baked the rabbit as a meal, deputies said. He managed a few bites of his dinner before the roommate came home.
Deputies had no information on the particular type of rabbit or whether the roommate had ever raised rabbits for market.
The allegations are similar to a famous scene from the 1987 film "Fatal Attraction," in which a married man's ex-lover boils his family's pet rabbit as a means of revenge.
Goshen psychologist Dean Scher said even if Wallace was a regular hunter and regarded rabbits as a food source, there is no case in which eating a roommate's pet could be considered normal.
"It's a pretty extreme action." said Scher a practicing psychologist for 30 years. "It's an interpersonal violation ... like saying, 'I'm the boss. I ate your rabbit and I could eat you.'"
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