A final note about my "sad"? attitude
The Japanese bombed mainland Australia, a pinprick compared to the devestation to the Aussie landscape during the Rabbit War.
The rabbits nearly won!
(and they still are a threat)
And that seriousness is not a joke. Nothing funny about live rabbits----as the Wiki threads will confirm.
And, also,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloropicrin
One of the chemicals we had to use in the Rabbit War. Why so few of us survived maybe?