Kim Jong Il hopes to gain mutant superpowers

[Sirotnikov]

by eating huge mutant rabbits...

Bunny boiler: Kim Jong-il ate my giant rabbits

April 6, 2007


BERLIN: A German farmer who sold 12 giant rabbits to North Korea with the aim of setting up a breeding program to alleviate famine has said he was shocked to hear they were eaten at Kim Jong-il's birthday banquet.

Karl Szmolinsky sent his oversized bunnies to Pyongyang to boost meat production. Der Spiegel reported that the 68-year-old breeder had been due to travel to North Korea to help set up the farm, but had received a telephone call last week from an official cancelling the trip.

Mr Szmolinsky told Der Spiegel that although he had no evidence, he believed his rabbits, which each weighed more than 10 kilograms, had been eaten at a banquet for the North Korean leader on February 16. "North Korea won't be getting any more rabbits from me, they don't even need to bother asking," he told the magazine.

Among the rabbits sent to North Korea late last year was Robert, a monster who won a prize as Germany's largest rabbit.

Pyongyang's embassy in Berlin has denied the rabbits are dead.

[DaShi]

Eh, what's up, doc?

[Sirotnikov]

[DRoseDARs]

He's surprised? He's SURPRISED!? Moron.

[Harovan]

Time to declare a rabbit embargo! Where's the UN when you need it??!

[korn469]

Oh my god this is one of the funniest stories ever!

[Kuciwalker]

[_BuRjaCi_]

That's one big rabbit.

[Last Conformist]

The trip was cancelled, so he concluded ol' Kim's eaten the rabbits? Is it just me, or does it seem a few steps are missing here?

[Colon™]

Seriously, do you expect logic from a guy who believed giant rabbits would fix famine in the country?

[Seeker]

Makes sense to me...rabbits will eat anything, easy to tend, don't need a lot of room, can survive colder temperatures than chickens, the only problem is low mass, and he solved it. It might've helped.

The dumbassery came of actually trusting KJI.

[Colon™]

1. Meat is a very wasteful method of feeding a population. You need to produce foodstuff to feed the foodstuff which is inherently less efficient than just producing foodstuff.

2. Bigger rabbits need more food. I somewhat doubt there are going be a lot of efficiency gains when you produce one big rabbit instead of two small ones.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Colon™
1. Meat is a very wasteful method of feeding a population. You need to produce foodstuff to feed the foodstuff which is inherently less efficient than just producing foodstuff.

Yes, when the foodstuff is carrots or potatoes and you have the land to grow them. If the only land you have is scraggy then having goats or sheep or even cows becomes more useful, unless you want to eat the grass yourself?

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Colon™
1. Meat is a very wasteful method of feeding a population. You need to produce foodstuff to feed the foodstuff which is inherently less efficient than just producing foodstuff.

2. Bigger rabbits need more food. I somewhat doubt there are going be a lot of efficiency gains when you produce one big rabbit instead of two small ones.

QFT. This story is hilarious on several levels.

[Colon™]

Originally posted by Dauphin


Yes, when the foodstuff is carrots or potatoes and you have the land to grow them. If the only land you have is scraggy then having goats or sheep or even cows becomes more useful, unless you want to eat the grass yourself?

Are you proposing giant rabbit pastures?