Accidental animal crueltyI once invented a brilliant game - I'd sit at the top of the stairs and throw cat biscuits to the bottom. My cat would eat them, then I'd shake the box, and he would run up the stairs for more biscuits. Then - of course - I'd throw a biscuit back down to the bottom. I kept this going for about half an hour, amused at my little game, and all was fine until the cat vomited. I felt absolutely dreadful.
Have you accidentally been cruel to an animal?
This question has been revived from way, way, way back on the b3ta messageboard when it was all fields round here.
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rob, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 11:13)
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Fun with antsYou need:
1 biscuit tin lid, small disc of polythene, foil milk-bottle top, some wire and croc-clips, ants.
Place milk-bottle top on the polythene and place that onto the biscuit tin lid, thus insulating the two.
Attach wires to the MBT and the BTL so that the MBT is live and the BTL is ground.
Tip some ants into the MBT and switch on the power, preferably from a HT generator or even mains power will do.
The ants will mill about until one of the gets bored and decides to escape. As it completes the circuit, and tends to complain. Using HT means that it will complain in the form of being vaporised.
Repeat until ant-less.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 15:48,
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...dictionary.reference.com/browse/accidental
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 15:57,
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That's not accidental cruelty...That's intentional cruelty. To ants no less. If you're gonna raise the bar on animal cruelty why to ants? That's like vowing that next year, after intense training, you will complete the 1 mile fun run in the local park. Have you considered another hobby?
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MurderThat's what that is. Intentional murder.
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I also fail to see how it would work.An ant would surely be too small to complete the circuit?
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becausethe disk of polythene that you use as the insulator is thinner than the length of an ant, hence as it crawls out, it connects the two parts.
I fucking hate the little bastards. My kids had some sticks of rock that their gran had brought back from somewhere, and left it half-eaten on the table, an hour later a load of ants were swarming over it like fat cousins at a buffet. Cue lots of heartbroken sobs by my kids.
So I went out and bought some Deathlac.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 7 Dec 2007, 17:10,
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Wasps I can understand.However, not ants.
They're not doing anything wrong. They're only trying to survive. How would you feel if someone electrocuted you because you were pissing them off?
You could always not leave food out.
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