EPTI saw a cat get hit by a car a few minutes ago - Page 6
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Romantic
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semantics
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On June 24 2010 03:13 Romantic wrote: LMAO only in piste's twisted world is letting your pet play outside an inhumane thing to do. Damn, all those people who let their kids outside where there are rapists and pedophiles and they might play in the street need to get bigger houses!! Don't listen to him! This is exactly what rapey-McRaperson wants! | ||
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PanN
United States2828 Posts
Thank you Romantic, for letting someone crazy know they are indeed crazy. | ||
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lone_hydra
Canada1460 Posts
On June 23 2010 12:15 BlackJack wrote: Spoiler alert! + Show Spoiler + + Show Spoiler + People are animals+ Show Spoiler + So are insects Ahahahaha. Animals are insects? I laugh at your pitiful attempt at political correctness douchery. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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3FFA
United States3931 Posts
On June 24 2010 02:37 ThePassingShadow wrote: Reading this thread gets me all emotional, and yet I continue to read it... Whyy..?! Humans hate death but care for those who lose friends and loved ones. It is of the human nature to continue reading. I was just lurking for a few pages until now. I think I might lurk for a few more. edit: today was my last day of school (WOOT) and when I was walking home I saw 3 dead squirrels on the sidewalk with their guts being shown and two with eyes that clearly said they were rabid. Was spooky. | ||
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Chairman Ray
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ShadeR
Australia7535 Posts
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{Mr.X}
United States95 Posts
Just 2 days ago, on my way home from work, I actually hit a cat. It was the first time that I had ever hit an animal while driving. It was about 9:00 P.M., and it just RAN straight into the middle of the road from some bushes on the side. I hit it going about 40 MPH. I had no chance to react, and it had no chance to live. I just heard and felt a suprisingly loud THUMP on my car, and I just kept going. I didn't really think to turn back to check up on it, I figured what was there I could do? The only thing I could have done at that point was gone back to feel sorry for it. Heaven forbid that it would have still been alive if I had turned around. For the next few minutes, I was actually quite perplexed as to how I "should" have felt about it. I didn't really feel bad, becuse there was nothing that I could have done, but I still felt like a bit of an a-hole for not at least stopping to check up on it, even though it just would have wasted time and been awkward. A long time ago, when I was maybe 12 or 13, I was camping in Yosemite and I found a squirrel. I decided, being a young and ignorant boy, to try throwing a rock at it. I picked up a fairly large rock, and threw it HARD at the squirrel, fully expecting for it to run out of way, like a fly does when you try to hit it. Instead though, I hit the poor squirrel DEAD on, right in the center of its head. I couldn't have hit it more perfectly. To my horror, not only did I hit it, but I saw that its face was literally smashed in (it almost looked as flat as a piece of paper), and even worse, it was still very much alive. I could see it running around on the ground in a big circle, panicked and probably suffering profusely. I felt horrible after this, and have never intentionally hurt an animal since. I never found out what happened to that squirrel, though i'm sure it suffered and died soon after. What's weird is that I felt/feel much worse about that poor squirrel than I do about the cat. I'm not too sure why. | ||
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Jt4096
Australia78 Posts
You'll get over it soon enough. In the mean time, think of it as a good thing that you are bummed - compassion and empathy are worthy traits imo. | ||
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Hyaach
Singapore1737 Posts
roadkills are often, forget about it and carry on | ||
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Ciryandor
United States3735 Posts
On June 24 2010 20:24 Hyaach wrote: did the title of this blog got changed? roadkills are often, forget about it and carry on Yes, and it made me click on it. I LOLed at the implication though. *imagines giant sabre-toothed tiger jumping on a compact car* And, does anyone here hunt? Have you ever felt different about doing roadkill versus sniping game? | ||
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Artotits
Haiti54 Posts
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Deleted User 50491
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On June 25 2010 00:06 Ciryandor wrote: Yes, and it made me click on it. I LOLed at the implication though. *imagines giant sabre-toothed tiger jumping on a compact car* And, does anyone here hunt? Have you ever felt different about doing roadkill versus sniping game? I hunt and no if its not a domestic animal. | ||
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bongjwa
United States199 Posts
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BlackJack
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Lexpar
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Sucks to see a pretty itty bitty kitty bite the dust. Happens all the the time thogh. I once saw a bird on the side of the highway that was just slightly thicker than a piece of paper. Pretty gross. Stuff dies every day, if you actually feel bad about it than maybe you should stop eating them. | ||
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Tynuji
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On June 24 2010 08:13 lone_hydra wrote: Ahahahaha. Animals are insects? I laugh at your pitiful attempt at political correctness douchery. User was temp banned for this post. He/she is correct. In biology, insects and mammals are part of the Animalia kingdom that seperates those organisms from plants, fungi and other autotrophs. | ||
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0rganism
United States7 Posts
A sudden fearful death is a hard thing to see, and trauma increases proportionally to how cute and familiar the victim is. It's not surprising that people respond more to the plights of those animals we'd typically consider petworthy than insects, with other wildlife falling somewhere in the middle. I'm sorry you had to see that, Nuke; I'd be shakey afterwards, too. (rant) It seems to me that the "it's natural, just get over it" posts miss a crucial point: there is nothing natural about a car, let alone our human-specific system of traffic. Somehow, we like to pretend pets and even wild animals know enough to use the crosswalks and look both ways, so it's all up to them to be safe pedestrians. I've heard of a few instances of animals figuring this out (e.g. crows using traffic light timing to place shelled nuts on the street for cars to crack open, retrieving the nut at the next light), but they're clearly the exception rather than the norm. Those who posted to the effect that one should run into an animal rather than risk an accident by slamming on the brakes are going out of their way to accommodate a population of routinely unsafe drivers. There's this little detail discussed in drivers' ed called "safe following distance", a two-second count was the normal minimum when I took the class years ago. You should be able to put on your brakes in an emergency without concern for what the car behind you will do, and the person who rear-ends in such a situation is almost always 100% liable for damages. It is the sole responsibility of a following driver not to tailgate, and that means leaving enough room that you can react to what the car in front of you does. It's scary, but not surprising, that some folks posting here may be driving around unaware of this simple fact. Whether the obstruction is a cat or a baby duck or a baby human or a water buffalo or a fallen log or a huge sinkhole suddenly opening in the road, if the driver of the car in front of you decides to stop, you darn well better be able to react in the time you've allotted yourself, or be solely responsible for the consequences. Saying a driver should just plow through regardless is foolish, IMHO. I've seen cars totalled from hitting deer; it's not a given that you're going to "win" such an engagement. Safe following distance is the solution and tailgaters are the real problem; please don't be blaming the obstacle or the driver who stops to avoid it. (/rant) | ||
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p14c
Vatican City State431 Posts
BTW: Insects are animals too. All living beings are animals. Animated means having life/alive. | ||
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prototype.
Canada4215 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + epic title change | ||
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