thats absolutely the most ridiculous thing ever.

you know... . most people in the world.... eat fish...

the fact this is going on shows how disconnected people are with the reality of the world.
They should go on a crusade putting anything that eats a fish behind bars, which is ironically also fish.

Shebuha

Canada1335 Posts

April 23 2012 22:57 GMT

#383

On April 24 2012 06:02 Xiron wrote:

Show nested quote +

Gold = valuable.

Also, if we consider the Great Chain of Being then: Gold = Lion = King = the Sun.

That guy ate the Sun.

.Mystic

Canada486 Posts

April 23 2012 22:59 GMT

#384

there are delicates where u eat a fish alive. Because of the term delicate doesn't make this or eating a gold fish any different. Eating an octopus alive? Where if its not for the sake of survival, then why would they bother taking this to court.. He did it for the sake of attention and a cool stunt video while the people who eat octopus do it for fun. Those people are retarded

rotinegg

United States1719 Posts

April 23 2012 23:03 GMT

#385

^ live octopus is really good.. have you ever had it?

v3chr0

United States856 Posts

April 23 2012 23:14 GMT

#386

Thank you OP, because I've never heard of "FoodForLouis" but it's pretty entertaining, and extremely nasty at the same time.

To be honest, he drank 10 blended mice, I seriously don't see how that stacks up to eating a live Goldfish. While I do question his reasoning behind eating this stuff, it's alright. People are doing a lot worse out there, and they aren't putting it up on youtube for people to see and criticize.

Lorken

New Zealand804 Posts

April 24 2012 00:46 GMT

#387

So boiling live lobster should put me in jail? I thought everybody did that.

zhenherald

Canada37 Posts

April 24 2012 01:05 GMT

#388

had he swallowed the goldfish it would be cruelty. He was nice enough to give it a couple comps to put it out of its misery. How is this any worse then someone catching a fish in a stream bopping it on the head with a rock and having a snack ?

eParadox

Canada132 Posts

April 24 2012 01:10 GMT

#389

Its a goldfish.... those don't like very long any ways.
By the time this case is closed it would have died from natural causes. (if he didn't eat it of course)

ExTerminator

United States22 Posts

April 24 2012 01:13 GMT

#390

This reminds me a bit of something that happened like 3 years ago. This kid (Kenny iirc?) posted a youtube video of him and his friend beating a cat, throwing it around in the shower, and being terrible to it for like 3-4 minutes. The internet exploded, turned it into a huge deal, and the kids basically ended up with a slap on the wrist from the local sheriff's department. For people to be more upset about some guy eating a goldfish on youtube, than people brutally beating and quite literally torturing a cat while laughing their butts off, seems absolutely ludicrous. The two are obviously different, it just really, really bugs me that even national organisations are up-in-arms over this, yet they weren't about the cat...

Rollin

Australia1552 Posts

April 24 2012 01:16 GMT

#391

In New Zealand (I lived there for a couple of years), it's quite common for the native maoris to eat fresh fish they just caught (yuk!). I've also eaten live spiders before just for lulz. I hardly see how a goldfish is different to a regular fish, or a spider or similar insect.

Not to mention boiling crabs alive, one of the most common ways of cooking them, surely that's "animal cruelty"? People need to grow a dick, we're omnivores, eating meat (fresh or cooked, dead or alive) is what we do.

cHaNg-sTa

United States1058 Posts

April 24 2012 01:21 GMT

#392

This is dumb... killing fish and then eating it is completely normal, but just directly eating a live fish (that even has an incredibly short lifespan) is against the law? Unbelievable.

Gatored

United States679 Posts

April 24 2012 01:26 GMT

#393

Sad what this world has come to with all the political correctness crap.

psiops

Canada21 Posts

April 24 2012 01:26 GMT

#394

LOUIS 2012, we're out to get him. get the pitchforks guys

can someone make a documentary of this goldfish killer?

i don't understand how someone can be punished for eating food? how did that piece of steak get onto my plate?

ulan-bat

China403 Posts

April 24 2012 01:27 GMT

#395

Was the fish called Wanda?

Sky101

United States1758 Posts

April 24 2012 01:28 GMT

#396

I'm beyond speechless to even hear that someone's going to investigate this guy for possible animal cruelty bs.

Seriously, I'm literally shocked. W-T-F UK???

Dagobert

Netherlands1858 Posts

April 24 2012 01:28 GMT

#397

I find it hard to find something about this story that is not completely stupid.

how

United States538 Posts

April 24 2012 01:29 GMT

#398

How on earth could eating a fish be considered animal cruelty. People literally do it all the time. Whether it dies from from a knife or teeth, I doubt the fish knows the difference.

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

April 24 2012 01:31 GMT

#399

A lot of replies have compared eating a goldfish to eating live octopus or eating live scorpions and spiders. I'd like to point out a clear distinction on why a goldfish is not allowed to be eaten this way.

The animal cruelty law that the man is charged for is focused on the animal group of vertebrates, which are creatures with spines. A creature's ability to feel the pain stimulus rests in the spinal column. The evolutionary purpose of it is to give certain creatures a faster reaction time to immediate danger, since there is less neural distance between your spine and your nerves. Creatures without spines are not able to feel the same pain stimulus, instead they have different mechanics of stimulus. These different mechanics of stimulus, as far as scientists can tell, do not cause any suffering to the creature. For example, when you eat a live octopus, the octopus knows it's being eaten, but it does not suffer from physical pain, nor does it have the mental capacity for emotional suffering either, so legally we are allowed to eat an octopus alive. A goldfish does have a spine, and therefore is able to suffer from the pain of being eaten, so that's why there's a law in place against animal cruelty for vertebrates.

Just make it clear, I do not support the charges laid against this man for eating a goldish, I just needed to clarify that there is a clear distinction between eating a goldfish, and eating other things alive.

knOxStarcraft

Canada422 Posts

April 24 2012 01:33 GMT

#400

This is just stupid people punishing stupid people, who cares? Other than the stupid guy who bit the head off his fish ofc. If they start punishing fishermen or scientists who perform experiments on mice then there will be cause for concern.

Edit: I'd just like to point out that this guy caused pain and death for literally no reason. So there should be some punishment, if being that stupid isn't enough of a punishment already.