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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Film Making in West VirginiaOkay, so West Virginia gets a bad rap over here...primarily because cousins marry quite frequently, producing "Deliverance" quality extras at an alarming rate.
However, there is some great history in West Virginia (from a Yank definition of History, mind) and I was up in Harpers Ferry, WV filming for the motion picture "Gods and Generals."
One of the extras was this eminently likeable Welshman named Roger who was an AVID American Civil War reenactor IN the UK! He was such a great guy, we kind of adopted him and got him paid to be there as a paid extra. Plus we got him free hotel lodgings (the extras had to sort that out for themselves).
So Roger gets an invitation to Thanksgiving up in Gettysburg, PA by one of the lads. Thanksgiving is celebrated the last Thursday of November...which is deer mating/rutting season. Crazy deer all over the damned place...and when they smell a doe in rut (prepared to mate) they don’t pay attention to ANYthing other than getting to that doe.
Cue Roger, having spent a lovely day of eating and watching American football. The main dish on Thanksgiving is turkey and as many know, tryptophan helps nudge one to sleepy-town. So Roger is driving the 1 hour and 45 minutes from Gettysburg to Harpers Ferry in his rental car shortly after dusk.
Just then a deer gets a whiff of a doe in rut and takes off across the road!
Unfortunately for both parties, said launch time coincided with Rogers hurtling along, half awake along that very same road.
Result? One Toyota Corolla absolutely shattered/totaled and one VERY scared Roger. Accidental? Yes, I think it fits the definition on two levels.
Roger ended up almost having to PAY for the car because his rental insurance had lapsed the DAY BEFORE. Fortunately, he had a decent attorney who finagled some way out of it.
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Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Mon 10 Dec 2007, 18:42,
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We've got that film!(It's not mine, it's his!)
If I watch it will I be able to spot you?
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Trust me...West Virginia's reputation is well deserved.
/Virginia Tech grad
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No lieMy family's from Tennessee. I have a second cousin once removed that looks quite like Banjo Boy in "Deliverance". He has all his marbles though and is an accomplished art restorer.
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