Originally posted by: xirtam
Dude that is really sick...
Yeah, had a rather sickening sensation myself when my passenger told me what it was I just hit. The only consolation I had was that I imagine it was rather quick and painless.
All I have to say is if I caught one of you sick asshats causing harm to my cat you'd probably be dead.
Well, if you can't keep your dark-colored cat off a dark-colored street in the middle of the night, then I'm sorry, but if I don't see your cat until it's too late, I'm not going to consider myself a "sick asshat" just because you say so.
Because you bragged about it. You wore it as a badge of honor on your sleeve. How obtuse are you? Could you not understand the substance of my post? Someone needs to get an education.
Nice imagery. I think I'll go out and get myself a wonderful little badge that says "Champion Cat Killer" to honor my honest mistake and stick it on my chest, wearing it proudly and maybe even attracting media attention. Maybe I'll get "Obtuse Ignorant Fool" to stick on my left arm, and "National I-Need-An-Education-Badly Finalist Award" to stick on my right.
Why would you want to kill something causelessly like that? I can understand not wanting to swerve to put yourself or someone else at risk, but hitting an animal that could be avoided by slowing down or going around it is a rather sadistic thing to do. It could be some kid's pet, wouldn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
Did I say I wanted to kill it? If I had seen it, I would have swerved. Forget myself or my passenger. I wasn't riding around looking for something to roll my vehicle over. If I see anything at all on the road, I try my best to miss it as I don't know what's in/under it. Could be a kid. If you nail a cat without seeing it, is that still such a sadistic thing to do?
Oh, and all of you guys whining about my accidental slaughter of a feline a couple nights ago, how many of you own a flyswatter? They're readily available in stores all over the place. My guess is that you think it's justified to kill flies, but not cats... why? Because flies are a nuisance whereas cats are generally accepted as domestic pets? Because cats are mammals? Why?
Do you kill rodents such as rats/mice? You are aware that there are traps commercially available to catch these "pests" which infest houses, do you not?
Well... when my dad was growing up, he lived on a farm. That didn't make him a "hillbilly"; in fact, the first thing he did at 17 was leave to go to the Air Force Academy because he knew that the farming life wasn't for him. Too bad they retired his F-111B. I heard that was a pretty sweet aircraft. Anyway, I digress: if you grow up on a farm, cats become like rodents or flies. They just populate like rabbits and take over. Cats crawling everywhere, tons of inbreeding going on... if you've seen some of the cats I have seen, you'd understand why sometimes it's more humane to put a bullet in its head than to let it go on living in that condition.
Anyway, if you've ever taken the flyswatter down and gone around fly hunting or set a mouse trap, you've had more malicious intent than I had when I nailed that cat. Regardless, these methods are quick and painless. I don't think the fly feels much when it gets swatted, do you? And when I die, I hope it's quick and painless. And whether or not it's an accident isn't going to make any difference to me, so the rest of the people around to whine about it might as well just get over my death, whether accidental or intentional, because it's done. It's over and I'm gone, and no amount of whining over the amount of justice or injustice incurred is going to bring me back. All it will do is breed bitterness. So if you want to be bitter at me for offing a cat, that's up to you. But you're only harming your overall psyche.
So thanks for the flames; sometimes it's encouraging to know that people on a message board overreact even more than my parents used to when I was living in their house. Based on scant information, people are already ready to sentence you to hell. I guess that's why the media is so powerful and why propaganda is such a widely used tool. Lots of suckers out there.