Not many of you will remember one of SFist's earliest stories on Lucky the rabbit, the bunny who had a (thankfully, malfunctioning) lit firecracker taped to her before she was tossed into a lake by her former owner, Nick Sigmon, and his buddy Paul Collins. Oh, just look at how nice we tried to be back then! We were such softies back in July, 2004 -- we're over that, now, if you hadn't guessed. It's......

I'm sure all of you remember Lucky, the buny who was thrown into a lake with a lit firecracker attached to her. We're happy to say that she has finally found a safe home in Concord with an experienced rabbit caretaker. We are very happy for her and wish her the best....

SFist is going to take a bold stance and say that we feel cruelty to animals is wrong. And ever since reading Watership Down as a child, we have felt a special afinity to bunny rabbits. That might be one of the reasons we watched with such horror as this story unfolded. We first heard about this on the Craigslist pet forums, on which pictures were posted of a rabbit who had had a M-1000 firecracker taped to her, and then was thrown into a lake (don't worry, she's OK!). Someone on Craigslist found the site and enraged, posted the pictures to draw attention to the crime....