Death to rabbits!!

[virtuamike]

I just got my car fixed. It was in a hit n run accident over a month ago, I just picked it up all shiny and new looking. As I'm driving to work, a rabbit runs across the road. I slam on my brakes, my PC falls forward, and it gouged a nice chunk of vinyl out of the dash. Beautiful way to start out my day.

I vow, the next rabbit that crosses me, he's gonna be roadkill.

 

[moshquerade]

you shouldn't brake for animals. could cause an accident.

 

[whaleskinrug]

I stayed some friends in France and, as we were travelling through the countryside, they kept accelerating and trying to hit rabbits. They claimed we were going to eat them, and I think they were serious.

 

[iamme]

i once hit the brakes for a squirrel running across the road.

as i started going again, it turned around and i ran over it

 

[FoBoT]

rabbit =! slam on brakes

 

[Ryan]

Wait, you're blaming the rabbit for making you stop?!?! Considering the risk of causing an accident is severely elevated when trying to avoid animals, I thing the risk is too high. I had to kill a puppy on my way to work one day because it ran out in front of my car in the middle of traffic. It was sad, but I'd hate to see what could have possibly happened if I woudl have slammed on my brakes, swerved, etc.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
Wait, you're blaming the rabbit for making you stop?!?! Considering the risk of causing an accident is severely elevated when trying to avoid animals, I thing the risk is too high. I had to kill a puppy on my way to work one day because it ran out in front of my car in the middle of traffic. It was sad, but I'd hate to see what could have possibly happened if I woudl have slammed on my brakes, swerved, etc.

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
Wait, you're blaming the rabbit for making you stop?!?! Considering the risk of causing an accident is severely elevated when trying to avoid animals, I thing the risk is too high. I had to kill a puppy on my way to work one day because it ran out in front of my car in the middle of traffic. It was sad, but I'd hate to see what could have possibly happened if I woudl have slammed on my brakes, swerved, etc.

As much as I understand how that is acceptable...

I think it's stupid that people place the value of their cars higher than the life of some creature who will be left to decompose in the middle of the road.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: ness1469

Originally posted by: rbloedow Wait, you're blaming the rabbit for making you stop?!?! Considering the risk of causing an accident is severely elevated when trying to avoid animals, I thing the risk is too high. I had to kill a puppy on my way to work one day because it ran out in front of my car in the middle of traffic. It was sad, but I'd hate to see what could have possibly happened if I woudl have slammed on my brakes, swerved, etc.

As much as I understand how that is acceptable... I think it's stupid that people place the value of their cars higher than the life of some creature who will be left to decompose in the middle of the road.

It's not that I value my car, I value my safety and the lives of others around me and myself. What would you rather have, a dead rabit of your dead, decomposing brains splattered on the road? That said, what's the difference if the creature gets killed by some other means? It's dead, how it decomposes doesn't matter.

Also, if you have the "I don't break for anything smaller than a child" mentality, how would you be placing the value of your vehicle over the animal. More people who hit animals run the elevated risk of damaging to their vehicles. Your statement doesn't really make sense. If anything, people who swerve or quickly brake to avoid the animal fit better in that statement.

 

[aircooled]

Elmer Fudd wouldn't have slammed on his brakes.

 

[vi edit]

I brake for nothing smaller than children.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: ness1469

Originally posted by: rbloedow Wait, you're blaming the rabbit for making you stop?!?! Considering the risk of causing an accident is severely elevated when trying to avoid animals, I thing the risk is too high. I had to kill a puppy on my way to work one day because it ran out in front of my car in the middle of traffic. It was sad, but I'd hate to see what could have possibly happened if I woudl have slammed on my brakes, swerved, etc.

As much as I understand how that is acceptable... I think it's stupid that people place the value of their cars higher than the life of some creature who will be left to decompose in the middle of the road.

It's not that I value my car, I value my safety and the lives of others around me and myself. What would you rather have, a dead rabit of your dead, decomposing brains splattered on the road? That said, what's the difference if the creature gets killed by some other means? It's dead, how it decomposes doesn't matter.

you are a sick bastard..seriously..and if you cant swerve and not hit the animal and other cars, you suck at driving, no offense. i lived in tennessee in a heavly wooded area where animals of every kind frequently crossed the street. no one there seemed to have a problem with it, and those were big animals like deer and coyotes. if you cant miss a rabbit or a puppy, you just plain suck. not only do you suck, but your attitude sucks. i cant believe you are so emotionless for the life of another creature. i understand why you dont want to kill yourself, that makes perfect sense and i can see your viewpoint, but making a blanket statement and not even trying to miss is just fvcked up.

 

[iamme]

i brake for donuts

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: ness1469

Originally posted by: rbloedow Wait, you're blaming the rabbit for making you stop?!?! Considering the risk of causing an accident is severely elevated when trying to avoid animals, I thing the risk is too high. I had to kill a puppy on my way to work one day because it ran out in front of my car in the middle of traffic. It was sad, but I'd hate to see what could have possibly happened if I woudl have slammed on my brakes, swerved, etc.

As much as I understand how that is acceptable... I think it's stupid that people place the value of their cars higher than the life of some creature who will be left to decompose in the middle of the road.

It's not that I value my car, I value my safety and the lives of others around me and myself. What would you rather have, a dead rabit of your dead, decomposing brains splattered on the road? That said, what's the difference if the creature gets killed by some other means? It's dead, how it decomposes doesn't matter.

you are a sick bastard..seriously..and if you cant swerve and not hit the animal and other cars, you suck at driving, no offense. i lived in tennessee in a heavly wooded area where animals of every kind frequently crossed the street. no one there seemed to have a problem with it, and those were big animals like deer and coyotes. if you cant miss a rabbit or a puppy, you just plain suck. not only do you suck, but your attitude sucks. i cant believe you are so emotionless for the life of another creature. i understand why you dont want to kill yourself, that makes perfect sense and i can see your viewpoint, but making a blanket statement and not even trying to miss is just fvcked up.

what's the difference between a squirrel getting run over by a car and a squirrel getting stampeded by a herd of elephants?

i'm not devoid of emotion, but crying over an 10lb animal that decides to run among 3 ton cars going 70-80MPH doesn't stirke me as heartbreaking.

 

[whaleskinrug]

Originally posted by: iamme
i brake for donuts

those little round ones the Hare Krishnas throw off into the street?

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: whaleskinrug

Originally posted by: iamme
i brake for donuts

those little round ones the Hare Krishnas throw off into the street?

i thought they were throwing squirrels in the streets for sacrifice

had i known they were donuts, i'd stop and eat

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: ness1469

Originally posted by: rbloedow Wait, you're blaming the rabbit for making you stop?!?! Considering the risk of causing an accident is severely elevated when trying to avoid animals, I thing the risk is too high. I had to kill a puppy on my way to work one day because it ran out in front of my car in the middle of traffic. It was sad, but I'd hate to see what could have possibly happened if I woudl have slammed on my brakes, swerved, etc.

As much as I understand how that is acceptable... I think it's stupid that people place the value of their cars higher than the life of some creature who will be left to decompose in the middle of the road.

It's not that I value my car, I value my safety and the lives of others around me and myself. What would you rather have, a dead rabit of your dead, decomposing brains splattered on the road? That said, what's the difference if the creature gets killed by some other means? It's dead, how it decomposes doesn't matter.

you are a sick bastard..seriously..and if you cant swerve and not hit the animal and other cars, you suck at driving, no offense. i lived in tennessee in a heavly wooded area where animals of every kind frequently crossed the street. no one there seemed to have a problem with it, and those were big animals like deer and coyotes. if you cant miss a rabbit or a puppy, you just plain suck. not only do you suck, but your attitude sucks. i cant believe you are so emotionless for the life of another creature. i understand why you dont want to kill yourself, that makes perfect sense and i can see your viewpoint, but making a blanket statement and not even trying to miss is just fvcked up.

Yea, you know, I was on a two lane highway, going about 60mph, with vehicles surrounding me. It's stupid for you to make such a blatantly ignorant statement since you don't know the facts of the situation. Take your Tennessee head and shove it.

 

[virtuamike]

Well, I was going 30mph on a road that goes around the campus, at 6am and no other cars on the road. Had there actually been traffic, no I wouldn't have spared its life.

 

[Kyteland]

My mom ran over 5 kittens once. They just ran out in to the road from under a parked car. There was no way she could have stopped without causing an accident, so she just kept going. 5 kittens went under the front of the car and 5 came out the back.... Perfectly ok and acting like nothing had happened.

No killing kittens that day.

Seriously, what choice do you have? If you don't stop you might hit the animal. If you do stop you might cause an accident. Both choices lead to cleaning a little dead weight out of the gene pool, so it really doesn't matter to me which one you choose.

 

[Sketcher]

Late one night a Momma Racoon and three little ones were crossing the road. I wasn't speeding but was going too fast for a safe stop or evasive maneuver. All four of them went under the car and a pretty sickening series of thump/thud followed. I slowed and turned around. They were all pretty mashed up but were still alive, so I ran over them a couple more times making sure the tires went over them to end their misery.

I love animals and would have avoided the situation if conditions where different, but putting others' lives at stake isn't worth the risk.

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: ness1469

Originally posted by: rbloedow Wait, you're blaming the rabbit for making you stop?!?! Considering the risk of causing an accident is severely elevated when trying to avoid animals, I thing the risk is too high. I had to kill a puppy on my way to work one day because it ran out in front of my car in the middle of traffic. It was sad, but I'd hate to see what could have possibly happened if I woudl have slammed on my brakes, swerved, etc.

As much as I understand how that is acceptable... I think it's stupid that people place the value of their cars higher than the life of some creature who will be left to decompose in the middle of the road.

It's not that I value my car, I value my safety and the lives of others around me and myself. What would you rather have, a dead rabit of your dead, decomposing brains splattered on the road? That said, what's the difference if the creature gets killed by some other means? It's dead, how it decomposes doesn't matter.

you are a sick bastard..seriously..and if you cant swerve and not hit the animal and other cars, you suck at driving, no offense. i lived in tennessee in a heavly wooded area where animals of every kind frequently crossed the street. no one there seemed to have a problem with it, and those were big animals like deer and coyotes. if you cant miss a rabbit or a puppy, you just plain suck. not only do you suck, but your attitude sucks. i cant believe you are so emotionless for the life of another creature. i understand why you dont want to kill yourself, that makes perfect sense and i can see your viewpoint, but making a blanket statement and not even trying to miss is just fvcked up.

Yea, you know, I was on a two lane highway, going about 60mph, with vehicles surrounding me. It's stupid for you to make such a blatantly ignorant statement since you don't know the facts of the situation. Take your Tennessee head and shove it.

i agree with rblowdoe on all accounts...

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: ness1469

Originally posted by: rbloedow Wait, you're blaming the rabbit for making you stop?!?! Considering the risk of causing an accident is severely elevated when trying to avoid animals, I thing the risk is too high. I had to kill a puppy on my way to work one day because it ran out in front of my car in the middle of traffic. It was sad, but I'd hate to see what could have possibly happened if I woudl have slammed on my brakes, swerved, etc.

As much as I understand how that is acceptable... I think it's stupid that people place the value of their cars higher than the life of some creature who will be left to decompose in the middle of the road.

It's not that I value my car, I value my safety and the lives of others around me and myself. What would you rather have, a dead rabit of your dead, decomposing brains splattered on the road? That said, what's the difference if the creature gets killed by some other means? It's dead, how it decomposes doesn't matter.

you are a sick bastard..seriously..and if you cant swerve and not hit the animal and other cars, you suck at driving, no offense. i lived in tennessee in a heavly wooded area where animals of every kind frequently crossed the street. no one there seemed to have a problem with it, and those were big animals like deer and coyotes. if you cant miss a rabbit or a puppy, you just plain suck. not only do you suck, but your attitude sucks. i cant believe you are so emotionless for the life of another creature. i understand why you dont want to kill yourself, that makes perfect sense and i can see your viewpoint, but making a blanket statement and not even trying to miss is just fvcked up.

Dude, take one of these. If someone is on a highway doing 70 mph, and a cat runs across the road, you just can't brake and hope the guy behind you doesn't plow into you. It's very possible to cause an accident in that scenario and IMO it's not worth it to cause the accident just to avoid hitting an animal.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: KLin

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Originally posted by: ness1469

Originally posted by: rbloedow Wait, you're blaming the rabbit for making you stop?!?! Considering the risk of causing an accident is severely elevated when trying to avoid animals, I thing the risk is too high. I had to kill a puppy on my way to work one day because it ran out in front of my car in the middle of traffic. It was sad, but I'd hate to see what could have possibly happened if I woudl have slammed on my brakes, swerved, etc.

As much as I understand how that is acceptable... I think it's stupid that people place the value of their cars higher than the life of some creature who will be left to decompose in the middle of the road.

It's not that I value my car, I value my safety and the lives of others around me and myself. What would you rather have, a dead rabit of your dead, decomposing brains splattered on the road? That said, what's the difference if the creature gets killed by some other means? It's dead, how it decomposes doesn't matter.

you are a sick bastard..seriously..and if you cant swerve and not hit the animal and other cars, you suck at driving, no offense. i lived in tennessee in a heavly wooded area where animals of every kind frequently crossed the street. no one there seemed to have a problem with it, and those were big animals like deer and coyotes. if you cant miss a rabbit or a puppy, you just plain suck. not only do you suck, but your attitude sucks. i cant believe you are so emotionless for the life of another creature. i understand why you dont want to kill yourself, that makes perfect sense and i can see your viewpoint, but making a blanket statement and not even trying to miss is just fvcked up.

Dude, take one of these. If someone is on a highway doing 70 mph, and a cat runs across the road, you just can't brake and hope the guy behind you doesn't plow into you. It's very possible to cause an accident in that scenario and IMO it's not worth it to cause the accident just to avoid hitting an animal.

I think a suppository will do