This is the best story I've seen in days.

Some animal rights kooks tried to free a bunch of minks from a mink farm in Washington state. According to the AP story:

SULTAN, Wash. -- An animal rights group's plan to free 10,000 mink from a farm turned deadly after many of the emancipated mustelids became cannibals while others went on a carnivorous feeding frenzy.

..."The mink are fine when they're litter mates together, but when they're not they're quite vicious and they're cannibals,'' Roesler said. "They do eat each other, and that's what we're battling.''

Days after the break-in, starving mink attacked a menagerie of exotic birds, a flock of chickens and even a Labrador retriever.

It reminds me of the old Dennis Miller routine where he wonders how "the precious mink" became a cause celebre.

"The mink is the biggest [jerk] in the animal kingdom," he said. "Every time you turn on a Marlin Perkins program, the mink's always got some helpless marsupial pinned down, and he's gnawing away at its carotid artery. Yeah, the mink's a delight. Let's seat him next to Grandma. And let me tell you something else, if the situation had been reversed, you'd better believe that the mink would be wearing your pelt around his neck. So when you hit your knees tonight, you can thank your walking-upright God that things worked out the way they did."