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Shortly after the mole gave Mileage Mead the heads up that Bully and his new BFF, John Quinlan, had signed up to run in the GOP House primary in MV, Mead ran up a coupla miles hightailing it to the town hall to sign up himself.

The unseasonably warm weather has led to an explosion in the rodent population and a predicted cold snap could see them hightailing it for your home.

Rather than waiting until around 500,000 years ago to head into South Asia, as many researchers have thought, the African hand ax crowd wasted relatively little time before hightailing it to India, Pappu's team concludes in the March 25 Science.

Rather than waiting until around 500,000 years ago to head into South Asia, as many researchers have thought, the African hand axe crowd wasted relatively little time before hightailing it to India.

Speaking of quick exits, a quick escape was certainly on the minds of the young lads hightailing it down a country road on one of Rockwell's most famous illustrations No Swimming, published June 4, 1921.

Xenophon's famous work tells of Greek mercenaries hightailing it home in 401 BC after their Persian client Cyrus and their own top commanders were killed.

And the Tulip Revolution in 2005 in Kyrgyzstan sent authoritarian president Askar Akayev hightailing to Russia, succeeded by an opposition leader promising constitutional reform.

The second instalment from everyone's favourite amnesiac spy sees Jason Bourne hightailing around Europe with the CIA and other assorted baddies on his trail.