A little tail can go a long way - especially if that tail is on fire, as a U.K. cricket club has discovered after losing a clubhouse packed with 150 years of history to a bunny with a burning arse.

The Devizes Cricket Club has been part of the area culture since 1850. All it took were two groundsmen and an ill-placed rabbit to wipe that away. The men were burning a bundle of branches that the rabbit had already claimed as his own. Both men saw the rabbit race from the branches with his little puffy tail ablaze. Within a half-hour, the club shed was, too.

Club officials estimate the fire caused $142,000 in damage.

As to the fate of the bunny, Devizes fire station commander Philip Flowers suggests, "It was either burnt to a cinder or it escaped through a small hole in the corner of the shed… but I imagine it perished and went to bunny heaven."

» Scott Saxon