Texas Rabbits Roped Like Steers (Nov, 1932)
Filed under: Just Weird — @ 12:34 am
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1932
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1932
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I think I’m going to have to call bullshit on this one. Unless that’s actually a Kangaroo…
Texas Rabbits Roped Like Steers
THE jackrabbits they sure grow big in the Lone Star State. If you need graphic proof just take a look at the photo at the right. Believe it or not, but that thing hanging by its hind legs is a rabbit, and not an overgrown police dog.
These critters play a leading role in the rabbit roping contest held every year in the little town of Odessa, in Wild Western part of Texas. The idea of roping a rabbit does not seem so easy when you see what it is that gets roped.
More likely, its a photochop.
Comment by Githyanki — February 15, 2008 @ 4:27 am
I’m not sure what it is, but Odessa, Texas sure is proud of him. http://www.odessahistory.com/jackrab1.htm
Comment by Gazzie — February 15, 2008 @ 5:33 am
Bullshit you said, and BS it is….
THank you photo overlaying…used to do a fair amount of that in my photo lab when I was a kid.
It’s not at all hard to do.
ajr
Comment by Alan J. Richer — February 15, 2008 @ 6:22 am
It could also just be forced perspective. But yeah, that rabbit is definitely not man-sized, no matter how it was conveyed to be.
Comment by fluffy — February 15, 2008 @ 10:07 am
It might be a fake but it could be a jackalope that they’ve already cut the antlers off of for use in a tea to cure baldness and erectile dysfunction.
Comment by Stannous — February 15, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
It is a jackalope but its a female. The female doesn’t grow antlers. Just thoought you should know.
Comment by Mike Brisendine — February 15, 2008 @ 4:04 pm
my thought on roping one-is that you would have to dump a huge pile of lettuce heads somewhere out in the field and wait for them to sit still and munch away.
except for the thrill seekers who ride them like broncos.
Wasn’t there also a texan rabibit pellets game too?.
I dont know.the guy in the photo looks mighty close (or unaware of what next will occur) to be making a cut where he is standing.
Comment by diogenesus — February 15, 2008 @ 8:36 pm
Looks like hooves on that rabbit’s front legs to me.
Comment by Jason — February 16, 2008 @ 8:18 pm
I doubt a rabbit could really get so big, but you’d be surprised to know there is a particular breed of rabbit from germany that will grow to the size of a medium sized dog.
They are shy animals really so i guess it left undetected for a long time they could grow very large.
Comment by Hollie — April 30, 2008 @ 11:42 pm