Well, I had a bad experience today. (Warning Gruesome)

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-02-11 06:22pm

Well, today, I was gonna feed a friend of the families horse, and as I reached in there I almost grabbed, and possilbe was bitten by a opossom. And opossom that had been killing my chickens. So my mom gets a net and I get a knife, we caught the opossom, and my mom has me stab it in the head, I find out it was extremely dull and the tip was broken off. So its hurts it pretty badly and my moms not taking the whole thing well, so I tell her to go away, and I try to put it out of its miseary as quickly as possible with what I had at hand. And so I take it to this fire pit, put it's head over a hollow ceramic brick, and in one swift move put a piece of rebar threw it's eye and out it's skull.

I feel bad about it, but it had to be done.

I probly caused the birth of a PETA member.

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-02-11 06:24pm

Why not just shoot it? Were there no axes around-- it sounds like a farm, or semi-rural environment...?

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-02-11 06:26pm

So you've crushed an opposoms head eh? Gruesome. And there really wasn't any other way to kill it? No sharp objects, no river to drown it in? Wow, gruesome.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-02-11 06:28pm

It didn't bite me, I noticed it in time.

It's on a little property were my mom makes pottery, and I didn't want to spend the time to run over the field, find something, and run back while it laid there suffering. Also there were no guns.

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-02-11 06:28pm

not to good but it could have been worse, why didn't you shoot the fucker?

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-02-11 06:29pm

Well Not like he felt it. Drowning him would of took longer. I'm sure if he had something else he would of used it initially.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-02-11 06:30pm

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:So you've crushed an opposoms head eh? Gruesome. And there really wasn't any other way to kill it? No sharp objects, no river to drown it in? Wow, gruesome.

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I had a knife, but it was too dull and the tip was broken off, and it was already cut up and dying.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-02-11 06:34pm

So you stabbed it where exactly? The skull?

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-02-11 06:38pm

ArmorPierce wrote:So you stabbed it where exactly? The skull?

Right below the skull in the neck, I think I broke it's neck, but it didn't die until I used the rubar.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-11 06:56pm

you could just break its neck, alot less gruesome that way, or you could have just hit it against the concrete block really hard like in the head.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-02-11 06:57pm

I feel like punching your mother if I saw her. Ordering the execution of the pathetic creature and then breaking down when you attempt to comply with the order.
In any case, killing things shouldn't be done unless it's absolutely necessary...

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-02-11 07:01pm

NF_Utvol wrote:you could just break its neck, alot less gruesome that way, or you could have just hit it against the concrete block really hard like in the head.

Have you seen the teeth on a opossom? Sure there not a tiger, but there intimidating for their size.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-11 07:12pm

Seggybop wrote:I feel like punching your mother if I saw her. Ordering the execution of the pathetic creature and then breaking down when you attempt to comply with the order.
In any case, killing things shouldn't be done unless it's absolutely necessary...

Did you even read the post, or is it just a knee-jerk reaction? The opossum was killing his chickens. I'd say it was justified.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-11 07:14pm

Seggybop wrote:I feel like punching your mother if I saw her. Ordering the execution of the pathetic creature and then breaking down when you attempt to comply with the order.

Well, aren't we quick to condemn, eh?

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-02-11 07:15pm

If I'd caught an animal killing my chickens, I'd stomp him.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-02-11 07:16pm

Dalton wrote:
Seggybop wrote:I feel like punching your mother if I saw her. Ordering the execution of the pathetic creature and then breaking down when you attempt to comply with the order.
In any case, killing things shouldn't be done unless it's absolutely necessary...
Did you even read the post, or is it just a knee-jerk reaction? The opossum was killing his chickens. I'd say it was justified.

Not only were they chickens, they were pets, most of them have names, and can easily be held. What would you do if you caught a animal that had killed a cat or small dog of yours, that you have had for years? While none of my older ones were killed, I lost several half year old one children of older birds that have died, and some really beautiful new breeds I bought.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-02-11 07:18pm

There is a bear who routinely raids my uncle's beehives.

My uncle is a former US Marine, an extremely good shot, and better armed than a hundred Shep's.

That bear is in serious trouble if he ever missteps.

On a more related note, that sucks. Part of the reason my uncle carries a pistol on his property and up at his cabin is so that he can put down animals quickly and easily.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-02-11 07:19pm

You've already got several dead animals. I don't see how adding another one helps you except as some kind of violent revenge. And in that case from your story it doesn't seem like you gained much satisfaction from destroying this enemy.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-02-11 07:20pm

Seggybop wrote:You've already got several dead animals. I don't see how adding another one helps you except as some kind of violent revenge. And in that case from your story it doesn't seem like you gained much satisfaction from destroying this enemy.

He's preventing it from killing again. Duh.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-02-11 07:21pm

Seggybop wrote:You've already got several dead animals. I don't see how adding another one helps you except as some kind of violent revenge. And in that case from your story it doesn't seem like you gained much satisfaction from destroying this enemy.

Are you blind? It was KILLING his chickens. And if killing something thats destroying your livestock isn't justifyed, then what would you have done smartguy?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-11 07:22pm

Seggybop wrote:You've already got several dead animals. I don't see how adding another one helps you except as some kind of violent revenge. And in that case from your story it doesn't seem like you gained much satisfaction from destroying this enemy.

You some PETA clown? You deliberately not reading his posts? The opossum was killing his chickens. Killing the opossum = opossum not killing chickens.

It's like shooting a wolf that's killing your sheep. Can't you see that?

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-02-11 07:23pm

Seggybop wrote:You've already got several dead animals. I don't see how adding another one helps you except as some kind of violent revenge. And in that case from your story it doesn't seem like you gained much satisfaction from destroying this enemy.

? It was eating the fucking chickens! You know, they lay eggs and eventually donate the meat.. You obviously don't have relatives living in rural areas.

It's natural for a farmer to kill animals, it's part of the job.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-02-11 07:25pm

I understand the position of everyone. What I don't get is that after you capture the animal and it's no longer able to cause you damage you need to kill it. It seems sort of gratuitious.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-11 07:26pm

Seggybop wrote:I understand the position of everyone. What I don't get is that after you capture the animal and it's no longer able to cause you damage you need to kill it. It seems sort of gratuitious.

You're right, Seggybop. Bunny should have just let the animal cruelly suffer and bleed to death as punishment.

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-02-11 07:28pm

No, he shouldn't stab it in the first place. He had already captured it. Like shooting captured POWs or something. They can't hurt you anymore but you kill them anyway. Not that the possum is the same as a human, but it's the same idea that there's no reason to hurt it after it's no longer able to attack.