According to this week's Harper's Weekly Review (link at right), "a flaming rabbit burned down a British cricket club". This may not be quite as bizarre a story as it first seems. There may in fact be some cross-cultural terminology confusion going on. Consider: in Australia, "flamin'" is a pretty harmless form of cuss word, as in "that flamin' sheila". And in cricket terminology a lower-order batsman (aka a "tail-ender") with a correspondingly low degree of batting ability is known as a "bunny". Imagine if a tail-ender had become so frustrated with his inability to make any runs that he set fire to the clubhouse. The source of the story could have been an Australian cricketer saying something like "Some flamin' bunny burned down the cricket club". There are a lot of Aussies playing cricket in England at this time of year.
By such simple mistakes are world wars commenced.
On the other hand, maybe a flaming rabbit did burn down a British cricket club.
