Woman attacked driver that hit, killed chicken that was crossing the road, per police
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i cannot put into words how much i despise people who don't see anything wrong with crushing animals with their car, it's so fucking gross and IMO should disqualify them from handling a heavy vehicle.
It's no different than shooting animals with a gun (proper or airsoft or whatever), which i think any sensible person would agree should bar you from owning guns.
wrote last edited by [email protected]That's a really weird comment coming from (I assume) a Swede, given the popularity of hunting there.
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I don't think I would be a very impartial juror if I were on this case
You'd have to cross the road to get to court though.
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Deserved... It could be a child instead of chicken.
the first time i read the sentence i thought it said children.
Buk buk.
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Hmmmm... Suspicious amount of people caring about chickens in these comments
Well yeah, it's not like I'd do something sick like pay to have a chicken's beak cut off while it's still alive.
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lol, her expression says it all, "Worth it, 10/10 would mace that bitch again."
Might do a little jail time but the chicken killer will think twice. I mean, christ, you live in Key West. Get on island time already.
Also I'm pretty sure the chickens are legally protected in Key West.
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Also I'm pretty sure the chickens are legally protected in Key West.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Oh no shit, it's a thing? So that might not have been someone's chicken, it was Key West's chicken? If so, the "perp" is going to be fine.
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Ngl, that would likely be me.
Not just because I like chickens, though that's a factor.
In my neighborhood, if you go the posted speed limit going one direction in the section that my house is on, you'd be going slow enough to be able to correct and not hit an animal. Going the other direction, as long as you don't slam the pedal down, it's the same.
So anyone hitting any critter with the possible exception of squirrels is 99.9~% likely to be doing something they shouldn't. I've gotten in altercations about it before because we have not just a lot of pets in the area, but kids. So some fucking moron is going to hear about out when they're showing exactly how fucking stupid they are.
But, I also happen to kinda know all the neighborhood chickens. Not necessarily on a first name, come her for petting basis, but I know which birds live where. Since I also have my own, and would gladly curb stomp any motherfucker that fucked with them, I would likely at least lay hands on a motherfucker for killing any of the neighborhood birds by being a moron. I'm old, but my tolerance for fuckery like that keeps getting lower as I age.
Accidents do happen, but some jackass trying to be all badass by speeding in a residential area can fuck right off and die. And yes, I'm talking about you, Robert, you absolute prat. Jackass. Done told you once. Fuckwit.
Anyway, yeah, chances are high the lady was justified as long as the dude is still alive
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Oh no shit, it's a thing? So that might not have been someone's chicken, it was Key West's chicken? If so, the "perp" is going to be fine.
Oh I guess I assumed it wasn't just someone's chicken, the article isn't clear really.
But yeah it's a thing if they're the wild ones I think. https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/05/30/protected-by-law-chickens-rule-the-roost-in-key-west/
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Oh I guess I assumed it wasn't just someone's chicken, the article isn't clear really.
But yeah it's a thing if they're the wild ones I think. https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/05/30/protected-by-law-chickens-rule-the-roost-in-key-west/
If reincarnation is real I want to come back as a Key West Chicken.
"They have no natural enemies on this island. We need some hungry foxes. . . . The cats won't touch them. The chickens are meaner than anything."
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I was taught by my driving instructor to not try and avoid smaller animals because swerving or sudden breaking would be more likely to result in a major accident than simply plowing through it. Whereas larger animals medium sized dog for example could lead to a wider accident if you hit them.
that's relevant on the highway, not residential neighbourhoods
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Deserved... It could be a child instead of chicken.
in this case, this is especially relevant
The woman stopped to let the chicken cross the road, so there was clearly something happening and obviously some sort of reason that this person was stopped in the road, and the driver behind them sped around and hit the chicken. that 100% could have been a pet or infant or child instead
The woman who hit the chicken made the explicit decision to ignore the warnings that were evident, and still hit something. fucking abhorrent behaviour
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I was taught by my driving instructor to not try and avoid smaller animals because swerving or sudden breaking would be more likely to result in a major accident than simply plowing through it. Whereas larger animals medium sized dog for example could lead to a wider accident if you hit them.
The driver was able to avoid the car stopped in the road to let the chicken cross. Instead of stopping behind them and waiting, they pulled out to cut around the stopped car.
I see this kind of behaviour all the time in my neighbourhood, at a crosswalk with a “kids crossing” sign and curb barriers designed to keep people from cutting around on the right. If someone is stopped to make a left hand turn, they cut on the right anyway, and if someone is stopped to let a kid or an animal cross (animals cross there all the time), they cut on the left.
People have been hit at that intersection. But people still keep doing it.
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There is a correlative link between the willingness to hurt animals and psychopathy. You start out hiring animals and you are more likely to be okay hurting humans.
If people are going to choose to eat meat, then I would prefer that they are protected from the trauma that comes with animal killing.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Distancing yourself from the violence doesn't make you less complicit in the violence.
Eating animals inherently requires a willingness to harm animals. You can either ignore it or you can't.
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That's a really weird comment coming from (I assume) a Swede, given the popularity of hunting there.
do you think most people hunt here? like stockholm is just full of woodsmen in cabins?
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You should be aware enough of traffic around you to know if slamming the brakes on presents a significant hazard. (And if you can't react to an animal appearing in the road you're likely driving too fast for the visibility and conditions)
Luckily I've never had to turn a cat inside out, but they frequently dart out infront of vehicles close enough that slamming on the breaks won't do much even at low speed. I have a friend who's cat died on a stretch of road that had a 30 km/h speed limit.
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Distancing yourself from the violence doesn't make you less complicit in the violence.
Eating animals inherently requires a willingness to harm animals. You can either ignore it or you can't.
I'm not talking about being complicit. I'm talking about exposure.
Just like you're not exposed to the child slavery that makes your cell phone possible, and that's good for your psyche.
But if you don't like that, be vegetarian.
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If that's the side you're coming from then I guess I can understand your argument. I was thinking from an animal welfare perspective, and the argument (which I've seen made before) that hunting is inhumane and that people should get their meat at the store instead.
As a side-note, I would really like a link to something backing up that people who hunt for food are more likely to be psychopaths.
Not hunting, hurting. But hunting is hurting.
Too lazy to write details. Please forgive the reddit link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askpsychology/comments/1fdvifa/why_do_psychopaths_torture_animals/
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do you think most people hunt here? like stockholm is just full of woodsmen in cabins?
I live in Oslo. Sounds about right
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It took me coming to the comments to notice that the word in the headline was chicken, not children. I was about to go OFF about those cops.
You still can. They suck.
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Well yeah, it's not like I'd do something sick like pay to have a chicken's beak cut off while it's still alive.
Yeah and I definitely wouldn't condemn a species to factory farming just to suit my cultural norms of what lunch is
