This reminds me of the Jackass segment where Steve-O ingests a live goldfish and pukes it up. Being punished for being at the top of the food chain is pretty ridiculous. These animal cruelty people have gone too far.

Steelo_Rivers

United States1968 Posts

April 23 2012 19:44 GMT

#342

so you cant eat a live fish but you can cook crabs, lobsters, and octopus right? there needs to be a bomb handed to the person who comes up with these silly rules and laws.

heroyi

United States1064 Posts

April 23 2012 19:50 GMT

#343

why the fuck does this thread have so many pages...

He ate a fish.
Holy. Shit.
Is it that big of a revelation...

hypercube

Hungary2735 Posts

April 23 2012 19:52 GMT

#344

On April 24 2012 04:39 dUTtrOACh wrote:
This reminds me of the Jackass segment where Steve-O ingests a live goldfish and pukes it up. Being punished for being at the top of the food chain is pretty ridiculous. These animal cruelty people have gone too far.

If you can be punished you're not really at the top of the food chain LOL.

JonnyBNoHo

United States6277 Posts

April 23 2012 19:56 GMT

#345

On April 24 2012 04:52 hypercube wrote:

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If you can be punished you're not really at the top of the food chain LOL.

Even funnier if they sentenced him to be eaten. To the sarlacc pit with you!!

holdthephone

United States523 Posts

April 23 2012 20:16 GMT

#346

i'm okay with this simply because Solid Snake did it in MGS3.

urashimakt

United States1591 Posts

April 23 2012 20:20 GMT

#347

Some facts about this story:

He ate a fish
It wasn't his pet, the statement that it was his pet was the April Fool's joke
It died in his mouth, not in his digestive tract.
- This is a pretty humane method of killing compared to how humans normally farm meat.
He did not eat the fish out of necessity.
- Lots of people eat things even when it's not necessary.
He video taped it and posted it on YouTube.

And now we see why he may go to jail.

Celadan

Norway471 Posts

April 23 2012 20:23 GMT

#348

On April 24 2012 05:20 urashimakt wrote:
Some facts about this story:

He ate a fish
It wasn't his pet, the statement that it was his pet was the April Fool's joke
It died in his mouth, not in his digestive tract.
- This is a pretty humane method of killing compared to how humans normally farm meat.
He did not eat the fish out of necessity.
- Lots of people eat things even when it's not necessary.
He video taped it and posted it on YouTube.

And now we see why he may go to jail.

I see why he should get a fine for like 150 bucks or something, just to keep people from doing stupid stuff like this...
(lets admit it, it was pretty stupid)
But jail is to overdoing it WAY too much....

DonKey_

Liechtenstein1356 Posts

April 23 2012 20:23 GMT

#349

Well as said 2 pages ago, this kid needs to get 36x the sentence to be fair.

Celadan

Norway471 Posts

April 23 2012 20:23 GMT

#350

Doublepost, sry

urashimakt

United States1591 Posts

April 23 2012 20:29 GMT

#351

On April 24 2012 05:23 Celadan wrote:

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He should get nothing. He posted a video titled "I eat my pet goldfish" and someone who cares about animals either didn't realize that it wasn't his pet or didn't care, so he got reported for animal cruelty. He'll be investigated and nothing will come of it.

It would be absurd to punish someone for eating a live animal and labelling it cruelty. Better stop boiling/cooking alive, suffocating, or cutting the throats of all the animals we eat every day.

Befree

695 Posts

April 23 2012 20:35 GMT

#352

Is killing the fish with his teeth particularly different from how fish generally are killed? I always had the impression they were slowly killed after being fished out of water just because of the lack of water. At least that's what it seems like when I see videos of fishing boats.

But even if they were all killed with like a knife or something, isn't that pretty much the same as teeth biting through them and killing them? If seconds before he had cut the fish's head off, would it have been okay then?

It sounds gross to me, but I'm having trouble putting my finger on a moral issue here. It seems like we kill endless amounts of fish daily in much for painful ways, why pick out this one instance?

1Eris1

United States5797 Posts

April 23 2012 20:38 GMT

#353

Bleh this sounds gross. At least have the decency to kill it first.

That being said, don't think this justifies jail or a fine, there's no precedence/hyprocrisy/etc.

StasisTV

United States92 Posts

April 23 2012 20:39 GMT

#354

On April 24 2012 05:23 DonKey_ wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8idhb8W9j80

Well as said 2 pages ago, this kid needs to get 36x the sentence to be fair.

That made me cringe a little, the fact that they would be swimming around in your stomach for a little while before dying of the acid...

you know thousands of years ago I'm pretty sure we ate way worse things, and I'm pretty sure people in our lifetime have resorted to cannibalism in other countries. Why don't they freak out over that?

sc14s

United States5052 Posts

April 23 2012 20:40 GMT

#355

this shit is retarded, he shouldn't get ANY jail time. There are so many cruel things that go unpunished MUCH worse than eating a goldfish.

As an example boiling fresh lobster and crab ALIVE mind you.. i would take a swift clean death by getting my head bitten off any day of the week to getting boiled alive.

KaiserJohan

Sweden1808 Posts

April 23 2012 20:52 GMT

#356

Don't kid yourself, of course he isn't going to jail, the likelyhood is quite small
I think its stupid and unnecessary shit he does though, wouldn't mind him paying some fines.

Still it's not as bad those frying fish alive -.-

PolskaGora

United States547 Posts

April 23 2012 20:54 GMT

#357

I don't even know why this thread exists, it's pretty obvious that any judge will laugh this case right out of court.The guy might be investigated because it's required but nothing will come of it, since this doesn't even define animal cruelty. Animal cruelty is when someone deliberately traumatizes animals, such as using them as a punching bag when they're having a bad day or starving them because they misbehaved. In these cases, the individual doing the animal abuse is doing so to deliberately cause pain and suffering in the animal. This case is nothing of the sort, the guy is just eating his fish, big deal.

Plus he kills it in the most humane possible way for a fish that's about to be ingested. In fact, when I would go fishing with my dad for trout for dinner, we would kill them by putting our fingers in the gills and pulling the head back to break the spinal cord/neck. That method sounds more inhumane than what this guy did, even though my dad assured me that the fish didn't feel any pain. People who complain that this fish suffered make me lol, especially since even the most suffering-inducing methods of slaughter for the meat we eat everyday are less suffering inducing than the way predators in the wild capture and kill prey. Imagine being eaten by a lion, first you get mauled to the ground by an enormous animal with the strength of a bear, next the back of your neck is punctured and crushed by their dagger-like teeth and massive jaws, and you slowly suffocate while the other lions start tearing your stomach apart to get at your innards while you're still alive. Any method of killing animals now is definitely less gruesome than that.

Also, I remember seeing a show where some guy was eating weird food in Japan for show and entertainment purposes, just like this guy. He was showing the way some Japanese people go drinking, where they cut open a live frog, pull out it's still-beating heart, and drop it into some spirit. What that frog experienced is probably a hundred times more painful than whatever that goldfish experienced. Yet I don't see that guy getting thrown in jail, despite the fact he broadcasted it to families nation-wide on television. In fact, he probably made lots of money because of it.