"Park Rabbit"

Episode 1 "In The Beginning"

Once there was a wild rabbit who lived in a public park in Northern California.

He spent his day looking for food, keeping his home clean and neat and keeping

up his social life. He was very popular among the eligible female rabbits. He lived

high up a hill away from most of the park visitors. But gradually more people

climbed up the hill. Some of them left their garbage behind. The wild rabbit liked

his world to be clean and neat, and as soon as any garbage littered his world he

quickly scurried to clean it up and bury it.

Soon he went on the offensive and came down the hill looking to make his world

more beautiful and free of litter. While on patrol a Park Ranger while driving

around the backroads of this public wilderness noticed the rabbit attacking the

litter and burying it. Ranger Bill Johnson or as he was well known of as "Sushi

Bill" because of his fondness for raw Japanese fish was a bruising muscular man

who loved pumping iron and was fond of the two machine guns in the front of his

squad car.

He tried to catch the rabbit's attention but the rabbit scampered off. Over time the

rabbit developed confidence in Sushi Bill and was encouraged to be driven

around the park to pick up trash. The rabbit was so successful at helping to

clean up the park Sushi Bill convinced the Park Service to make a little Ranger

uniform complete with hat and to empower the rabbit they gave him a squirt gun

and taught him how to use it even though he was just a rabbit.

Scientists in government laboratories found that a weak solution of yogurt and

water helped accelerate the biodegrading of litter and soon the rabbit's squirt

gun was filled with watered down yogurt. And, the rabbit was given a name

Albert Jack or Al for short. One day the Park Rabbit was on patrol hunting down

litter he came upon a camp ground with picnic tables. People were taking their

hamburger wrappings and leaving them on the picnic table. The Park Rabbit

scampered over to the picnickers, jumped up on the table, stood up on his hind

legs and wiggled his nose at the offending picnicker who left the burger

wrappings on the table pointing at them with indignation. The rabbit was ignored.

Once again the Park Rabbit stood up and started to wave his long floppy ears. The

rabbit made no noise as rabbits have a quiet way of asserting themselves. This

time the fast food crowd tried to shoo the rabbit away. When Al the Park Rabbit

wouldn't quit they took a swipe at him. That was too much. The Park Rabbit

stood up on his hind legs in silent indignation and disappeared. Five or ten

minutes later a Park Ranger squad car came barrelling down the road with its

lights and siren on. Whoo Whoo Whoo and the door opened and Ranger Sushi

Bill came out of the car with his pistol and radio strapped to his belt. Over he

went to the picnic tables to reprimand the campers and a few seconds later

out of the squad car pops the Park Rabbit chasing after him.

Don't even think of leaving litter on your table. The Park Rabbit will get you.