Several dead rabbits (one of which is pictured) have been thrown through windows of student flats at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus over the past fortnight
A university is set to launch an investigation to catch a mysterious ghoulish figure who has been throwing dead rabbits through open windows on campus.
Several dead rabbits have been thrown through windows of student flats at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus over the past fortnight.
There are 5,400 rooms in a series of housing blocks set in more than 300-acres of parkland – but the ‘phantom rabbit flinger’ is upsetting students by tossing fluffy bunnies through flat windows.
One male student was hit by a flying rabbit after it was lobbed through a window as he stood in his girlfriend’s room on June 1 and other rabbits have been thrown through open kitchen windows.
Shocked business studies student Kaylin Moir, 18, said she watched in horror as dead rabbit came flying into her pal’s flat, hitting her friend’s boyfriend.
When she later returned to her own shared flat, she found another dead rabbit lying dead on her kitchen draining board.
Speaking this week, she said: ‘I was outside my friend’s room with the window open.
‘We were just talking and then I felt an object pass my head – it (the rabbit) hit her boyfriend and fell on the bed.’
She told the KentLive website this week that after going back to her own flat – just six doors down from her pal – she spotted a dead bunny in her kitchen on the draining board.
She added: ‘I went back to my house, but when I went to grab some water I saw the dead rabbit and called campus security.’
Other students said they had also been victim of the ‘bunny flinger’, with one saying: ‘I came back home and saw a dead rabbit lying on the kitchen floor.’
Shocked business studies student Kaylin Moir, 18, said she watched in horror as dead rabbit came flying into her pal’s flat, hitting her friend’s boyfriend. Pictured: Some of the rabbits
Another, who was not named, said the university had to ‘take action’, adding: ‘This might sound like a daft student prank, but it’s really upsetting to find dead rabbits in your home.
‘The university needs to take action and find out who is doing this.’
Campus security at the University of Kent were called out and the dead bunnies have been disposed of.
Bosses at the university have been informed of the incidents and are set to launch an investigation.