I'm a terrible person. (sortof)

[HentMas]

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OUR REVENGE WILL BE SWIFT AND PAINFUL!!!

naaah, its OK man, i would have done something else before resorting to kill them, like capturing them and selling them or finding them a home or something

and yes, i have killed stuff close range

the closest was a rabid dog that attacked me and i only had my pocket knife, but since i was really really fearing for my life i hold no sentiments against the animal, it was a dark street past 11 pm, I was coming back from a friends house in my bike when this thing jumped from a corner and knocked me down, he bit me but as i was wearing a baggy jacket it just got the jacket, i noticed the foam in his mouth and the viciousness in his attacks and slapped him hard in the side of the head to make him release me, but he wouldn't budge, we struggled for a minute or so, no one was around, so I went for the pocket knife in my jeans, and stabbed the animal in the neck, i heard a whimper and a growl, he still wouldn't budge and tried to bite deeper, but i managed to move my arm so he just grabbed the jacket again, so i stabbed him again... i heard a second whimper and the dog suddenly released me, walked hurt for a few seconds and dropped in the sidewalk, i stood up, got near him and he was still breathing, as i had no means of picking him up (i was 14 at the time and had no cellphone) i just pet his head he stared at me and growled i stayed there "shhhh shhhh shhhh" until he stopped breathing

and no one came trough that street the whole time i was there... really odd

i picked my bike and headed home, they got really alarmed when they saw me covered in blood and with my jacket torn, after explaining everyone looked at me as if i was crazy or something... my dad asked for my knife and told me "ill be keeping this from now on, and you cant go out this late at night"

my mom asked me if i was ok, "yeah i´m fine", "you just killed a dog with a knife!"

i looked at her for a few seconds and told her "what was i supposed to do? let him kill me?"

"you could have kicked him hard or scared him away!"

"IT WAS A HUGE DOG! I WAS ON THE FLOOR!!!"

"ok, i´m just concerned for your well being"

and I was sent to therapy... the therapist was alarmed that i had a knife at all, but after a few sessions she assured my parents I wasn´t an aggressive kid

the knife i had was something like this

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[Aprilgold]

Well, your cruel, it doesn't matter that you put it out of its misery, since you shot it anyways. Bunnies are really weak, so if their fucking up your garden, their doing it to survive, want them gone? Put a fence around your garden, its their natural repellent. To be honest, I don't care if your garden is getting owned by bunnies, since theres SO MANY alternatives, also, get your bro checked out, laughing happily at shooting small animals is the start of a serial killer. Basically, your cruel, not a awful person, but is cruel. It wouldn't be so bad if it were rats or something thats actual PESTS, but none the less, its still cruel shooting something that can't even give you rabies [I'm not sure]

To clarify, if your shot won't be clean, don't take the shot, its better for you and the animal, so don't be cruel and make the shot not clean, basically.. Make more sense now?

 

[BeerTent]

What's more important, Protecting your crops, or having a rabbit destroy them?

As for killing something at close range, I've had a dog sic'd on me. I've got that experience down.

My response to your rabbit problem? Grow up. If it can't take the hint from a warning shot, then do it a favor and end it quickly.

 

[Gothproxy]

Well, having been in 3 arenas of conflict and having caused the deaths of a few human beings, I know exactly how you felt about killing a poor animal up close. I came away from my Army time more sensitive to death than I think I started with, so I feel for ya. I had to catch a mouse that had gotten into my brother's house, kill it and trash it and I'll tell ya, I was almost sick when it came to the killing part. So instead I put it in a small box, drove it out to a field well away from their house and let it go. I'm pretty sure you couldn't have done that with the rabbits, but don't feel bad. Your anguish and response to its pain makes you a better person than many.

And no comment on your brother.

 

[Tharwen]

My dog is the most sadistic creature I know. She sniffs around for a bit, then suddenly she jumps into the bushes and return after a few seconds with a screaming rabbit. She holds it in her jaws as it wriggles and squirms, still screaming, then as you watch, she crushes its spine.

 

[Android2137]

Question: Have you ever killed something at close range? It's very strange...and I dislike it highly.

...Do bugs like moths, fruit flies, and mosquitoes count?

 

[Thundero13]

Yes, yes you are, you'll get no sympathy from me
No, i've never killed anything at close range, or any range (at least not on purpose) and I don't plan to, i'm also a vegetarian so no accusing me of being a hypocrite

 

[Soviet Heavy]

"George, you remember you used to own a pet rabbit?"

"Yes, Flossy."

"And do you remember what happened to young Flossy?"

"You shot him, sir."

"Yes, but that was only an act of kindness after that dog was set on him."

"Your dog, sir."

"Yes, yes, but that too was only an act of mercy after being run over by that car."

"By your car, sir."

"Yes, yes, my car. But the point is: the state that Flossy was in when we scraped him off the front tire, is very much the shape Captain Blackadder is in right now. He's not very nearly dead, but very actually dead."

"Permission for lip to wobble sir?"

"Granted"

(Lip wobbles)

"Stout fellow!"

But in all seriousness, that's a shame. Rabbits are a pain in the ass to get rid of, since they, well, breed like rabbits. It sucks when they suffer, but you went about finishing the job as humanely as you could. Feeling remorse is okay, it shows that you can still feel compassion. You're still human.

 

[Nunny]

Ive had to perform a few mercy killings of sheep before, usualy because of failed or bad pregnancy's.

22. with hollow points fired point blank at the back of the skull garentee instant death, but i always use the 2 shot rule, one to kill and one to make sure thier is no possible chance at survival.

Also wouldve put down a wallabe i accidently hit with my car, but couldnt get the fireing mechanism to work....got someone else to do the job for me.

 

[legend of duty]

i found a live squirrel with most of its skin ripped off so i put put it out of its misery with a shovel and it made the most horrible sqeak so in general i felt like shit for a couple of days. the point is: close range killing sucks no matter what.

 

[dj Facchiano]

Yes, yes you are, you'll get no sympathy from me
No, i've never killed anything at close range, or any range (at least not on purpose) and I don't plan to, i'm also a vegetarian so no accusing me of being a hypocrite

hmm then I guess everyone else is just an asshole then huh . Its a good thing we have our superior vegetarian overlords to watch over us.

 

[Thundero13]

Yes, yes you are, you'll get no sympathy from me
No, i've never killed anything at close range, or any range (at least not on purpose) and I don't plan to, i'm also a vegetarian so no accusing me of being a hypocrite

hmm then I guess everyone else is just an asshole then huh . Its a good thing we have our superior vegetarian overlords to watch over us.

Not quite sure how you got that from what I said, I just mentioned being a vegetarian so's to prevent being called a hypocrite...
Oh well, I guess whatever you do somebody will always hate you

 

[Browncoat86]

Odin's beard! This thread is just full of insanity. If slugs/ants/ladybugs/*insert other pest people have no problem terminating here* attack your garden, do you attempt to capture them and relocate? No, they, much like rabbits, are pests, and you deal with them like you would deal with a pest. We are top of the food chain for a reason.

I put the life of animals over the life of any human, so regardless of what the animal was doing I couldn't bring myself to do that.

You, you are just the worst kind of person.

 

[TheLoneBeet]

I kill things all the time, and I've sort of become desensitized to it. Not like a serial killer or whatever, just shooting birds and 'pests' as my grandpa called them.

Spoiler: Sort of disturbing story about when I was young (like twelve).

When I was young my grandpa gave me an air-rifle and instructed me to kill some birds (can't remember the specific type but he reasoned that I was doing a good thing because the birds I was shooting were the sort that killed other birds?) anyways, he showed me how to work the gun and the safety and all that and demonstrated by shooting one. I remember it vividly, it fell out of the tree and hit a branch on the way down, then hit the ground. It was still alive to he let me put a new pellet in, then told me to shoot it in the head. I did. I don't remember being particularly sad, but again he reasoned that it was better to put it out of it's misery than to leave it there. Anyways, I did this sort of thing a couple of days every spring until I was sixteen. I just sort of got used to it. Shoot them out of the tree, put another pellet in their head. I became desensitized.

I also have my Canadian Firearms License, and have been hunting a few times with my dad. However, I've never killed something that whimpered at me. I'm not sure how I would deal with that, but I imagine I'd handle it better than most people. That's not really a good thing though.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

The whole lot of you condemning the guy for shooting the rabbit: shut your fucking faces. Rabbits are pests. They breed like crazy, destroy crops, and can attract predators. Vegetarians who think that it is immoral to shoot a pest, grow your own fucking crops. If I don't look after my vegetables, then you can grow your own shit, because you're just trying to survive. Oh, now doesn't that sound familiar?

If I'm not allowed to protect my source of income that happens to be your only food source, then you only have yourself to blame for not letting me deal with the pests. You want your veggies? Let me do my goddamn job the way I see fit. I don't want weasels or ferrets or wolves or any other rabbit and chicken eating predator on my farm. Rabbits need to learn that this is my property, it is not theirs, it is not their food, it is not their right. If they are too stupid to clear off after being shot at, it's their own fault.

The guy already feels terrible, and now you're telling him he is terrible because he chose the best response in the situation. He dealt with it as best he could, but no, he's an evil person because he let the cute wittle bunny wunny die.

 

[Jodah]

Just a note to anyone saying "all killing is bad." I somewhat agreed until the first time I had to crawl into the duck pen that a raccoon had gotten into. After you have to deal with something like that you will stop thinking all killing is bad.

 

[Aprilgold]

Odin's beard! This thread is just full of insanity. If slugs/ants/ladybugs/*insert other pest people have no problem terminating here* attack your garden, do you attempt to capture them and relocate? No, they, much like rabbits, are pests, and you deal with them like you would deal with a pest. We are top of the food chain for a reason.

I put the life of animals over the life of any human, so regardless of what the animal was doing I couldn't bring myself to do that.

You, you are just the worst kind of person.

I agree on that, anyone that think an ANIMAL'S life is more important then a human, then you got your facts wrong. To be on topic, killing is not a bad thing, but killing when theres an alternative seems sorta pointless.... Also, if you got to kill, MAKE SURE your shot will be clean and instant, nothing is worse in death then living through UNGODLY pain, also, I haven't had any type of close or mercy kill, so, yeah, THATS GREAT! *Cheers and pats self on back*

 

[Aprilgold]

The whole lot of you condemning the guy for shooting the rabbit: shut your fucking faces. Rabbits are pests. They breed like crazy, destroy crops, and can attract predators. Vegetarians who think that it is immoral to shoot a pest, grow your own fucking crops. If I don't look after my vegetables, then you can grow your own shit, because you're just trying to survive. Oh, now doesn't that sound familiar?

If I'm not allowed to protect my source of income that happens to be your only food source, then you only have yourself to blame for not letting me deal with the pests. You want your veggies? Let me do my goddamn job the way I see fit. I don't want weasels or ferrets or wolves or any other rabbit and chicken eating predator on my farm. Rabbits need to learn that this is my property, it is not theirs, it is not their food, it is not their right. If they are too stupid to clear off after being shot at, it's their own fault.

The guy already feels terrible, and now you're telling him he is because he chose the best response in the situation. He dealt with it as best he could, but no, he's an evil person because he let the cute wittle bunny wunny die.

Do you work in a crop field or something along those lines? Its so out of question, but what is it like there? You said protect your source of income, so I'm just assuming, that would be kinda cool if you do.

 

[The Virgo]

Have I ever killed anything close range? No. But I once had to deal (but thankfully not bury) a couple-of-weeks-old kitten that had died. It had died soon enough that it hadn't gotten stiff, but long enough that it had no warmth ... plus it was twitching profusely.

As I was putting into a trash bag, it, as guess as some kind of twitch response, gave off a kind of meow.

Let me tell ya, that was not a fun thing to deal with, especially a few minutes after I woke up! <:-O