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soap box time for me
I was driving to work today and was sitting at a stop light today. The road was 4 lanes wide with a turning lane, making 5 lanes total. Well a squrriel ran out in the road. Traffic was very light and the thing made it all the way across the road and was on the white line when a car purposely swerved and hit it. Why would someone intentionally want to hit an animal? That was the first one that I seen hit, but I also saw two other attempts in the last week. Do people not understand the potental damage that could happen?
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I saw someone swerve and hit a box turtle crossing the road once. I was turning around to get it off the road and this person pulled out of thier driveway and then swerved to hit this thing. Or so it seemed to me. I was ticked. It was in the middle of the lane and the guy steered out of his lane and ran it over. I'm 90% sure it was on purpose. I'd like to think it was an accedent, but after seeing it happen I'm not sure.
Why anyone would intentionaly hurt and animal for no reason is beyond me. At least with hunting the purpose is to use the animal. I've never released an arrow or bullet without an intent of killing the animal and using it for food. I take that back...I killed a possum once when I was a kid that the dogs had cornered and that was getting into our trash. But never just because. Maybe your person swerved to miss it thinking it would go into the road again... I hope so...hopefully it was not just to kill something... |
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Yea, there's some screwed up puppies out there, no doubt.[:@][:'(][:'(][:'(]
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Dumb a$$es.[:@][:@]
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I think teenagers that may be a more common thing, but adults....that's messed up. I think those people give us hunters a bad name. Them and us are 2 different types of people. I really don't think hunters enjoy the killing aspect of hunting....the kill part I'm referring to, ie killing to kill, hunting just to kill.
I'd swerve for a snake though.....but not many squirrels can kill a human....course I guess a snake won't either, and not all are poisonous. |
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Some folks just don't have the sense god gave a door nor do they have apurpose for existence....[:@][:@]
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ORIGINAL: salukipv1 I think teenagers that may be a more common thing, but adults....that's messed up. I think those people give us hunters a bad name. Them and us are 2 different types of people. I really don't think hunters enjoy the killing aspect of hunting....the kill part I'm referring to, ie killing to kill, hunting just to kill. |
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ORIGINAL: TexasBowHunter Some folks just don't have the sense god gave a door nor do they have apurpose for existence....[:@][:@] |
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If you do that in WI youll get fined. Its against the law in WI to worry a squirell
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thats just messed up on several levels
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Somany people are more than eager to bash a snake and think nothing of it. There was maybe a handful of guys against that premise. But because we are talking about a cute cuddly squirrel here, EVERYONE jumps on the bandwagon to oppose it.
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ORIGINAL: salukipv1 I think those people give us hunters a bad name. Them and us are 2 different types of people. I really don't think hunters enjoy the killing aspect of hunting....the kill part I'm referring to, ie killing to kill, hunting just to kill. |
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ORIGINAL: rybohunter Somany people are more than eager to bash a snake and think nothing of it. There was maybe a handful of guys against that premise. But because we are talking about a cute cuddly squirrel here, EVERYONE jumps on the bandwagon to oppose it. Dangerous to do it, yep (swerving to hit anything). That makes it stupid, not other things. |
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ORIGINAL: rybohunter Somany people are more than eager to bash a snake and think nothing of it. There was maybe a handful of guys against that premise. But because we are talking about a cute cuddly squirrel here, EVERYONE jumps on the bandwagon to oppose it. |
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I wouldn't try to hit a rat....I don't try to kill anything unless it endangers my family and there is no other option. Killing an animal just to kill is just plain stupid, unless that animal poses a great danger to your body or well-being.
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My whole point of this is really, Why risk an injury to yourself or others just to hit an animal? You know that if traffic was flowing at 45-55 and the same situation occurred, they would have tried the same thing. Rat, squrriel, groundhog or cat, it just doesn't make since to try it. Its to simple to lose control of your car and cause an accident.
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I'll tell you like this I won't wreck my vehicle to kill something that's on the road but if a squirrel or possum or raccoon cross the road in front of me I don't hit my brakes.
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ORIGINAL: gutshot I'll tell you like this I won't wreck my vehicle to kill something that's on the road but if a squirrel or possum or raccoon cross the road in front of me I don't hit my brakes. |
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Just maybe there was a history between that critter and the driver and the critter wouldn't take warning and got it's comeuppance.:DJK
Who knows. Saw a family of ducks do somethig similar at a very busy intersection. Some idiot woman in a distant lane stopped her car and attempted to stand there and direct the ducks. I kept waiting for a big crash (stupidly but unable to move, could of got us all killed). The ducks made it. It was unbelievable.:D |
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