VEGETABLE BANDIT BROUGHT TO GRUESOME JUSTICE

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - For the past three years, a terror has been haunting the gardens of local residents. Last Thursday, the Vegetable Bandit was gunned down just outside of Michael Brown’s carrot patch.
Operating in the stealth of night and donning a six-foot-tall pink rabbit costume, Richard Braugnihan, 34, had stolen countless bundles of carrots and turnips from the gardens of local residents. Authorities had been confounded by reports of a supernaturally large rabbit.
"We called up some of them ol’ science types over there at the University, and they told us that there couldn’t be no such thing as a six-foot-tall rabbit," said Lieutenant Cedar Hooks. "That’s when me and Lou gots to thinkin'. Lou called up the local costume shop, and that’s when we learned that Braugnihan had kept the costume since Easter of 2000."
Hooks tracked down Braugnihan at an abandoned school house, and they set up a sting operation at Brown's residence.
"We passed out these flyers touting Brown's genetically-modified carrots," said Hooks. "We knew that no regular rabbit could resist super carrots, let alone a six-foot-tall rabbit/man-type thing."
The sting was going as planned until Brown, unaware of the operation, burst into the still of night with his 12-gauge shotgun blazing. Braugnihan was rushed to St. Ann's, but was declared dead on arrival.