WESTFIELD – Bunny rabbits are traditionally in vogue at Eastertime since they are often symbolic of fertility and rebirth and often play a starring role in celebrations of spring but it is hard to understand the symbolism of rabbit heads left in mailboxes.
City police report that a resident called Monday evening to report that the severed head of a rabbit had been left in his mother’s mailbox.
Nathan Osowski responded and reports that a Pinehurst resident told him that a letter carrier had alerted her to the rabbit’s head in her mailbox and also told her that a second rabbit head had been found in a Willis Street mailbox.
The woman, whose sister lives about four blocks away on Willis Street, found that the rabbit head on Willis Street had been left in her sister’s mailbox.
The officer reports that one of the woman’s neighbors removed the rabbit had from her mailbox and buried it in a back yard.
The woman removed the rabbit head from her sister’s mailbox and disposed of it.
Det. Brian Freeman was assigned to investigate the mystery and reports that a hunter who had seen the rabbit heads before they were buried said that they looked like they came from wild rabbits.
Freeman said that he canvassed the neighborhoods but did not speak to anyone who reported seeing anything unusual.
Anyone who did see anything out of the ordinary or otherwise knows about the mysterious rabbit heads is asked the call the Detective Bureau at 572-6400.
