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[J@hranimo]

Man I know the feeling. Sucks seeing a living thing die so quickly and horribly. One time me and a friend were in my parent's car and my Dad saw a cat and one of her kittens and the mother ran across the road while the little kitten tried to cross and he couldn't avoid it. I remember looking back through the back window and seeing it's tail bouncing around erratically while the rest of the body was flattened

 

[Srsly]

I felt bad when I accidentally slammed a gecko in a door jamb. That was a couple of years ago and I still occasionally visualize it cut in half with its guts hanging out.

 

[Coeliacus]

I'm from an area of rural Australia and roadkill is a fact of life here. If you haven't hit any animals, you haven't been driving very long. In my little town wheat trucks would drive through dropping grains on the road, and we'd get gallahs in the dozens on the road. They are both blind and stupid, so when they finally notice a car they go crazy and all fly around uncoordinated, it's not uncommon to see a few get hit in one pass by. I love magpies though, they see you coming and take several hops off the road and watch you go by.

Kangaroos can be bad at night, the see your headlights and it stuns them. Our family station wagon hit one when I was really young and put a massive crack in the windshield. Scared the crap out of me. A woman in our town flipped her hatchback on a wombat, basically totaled the car. The wombat came through with a stunned look and a few cracked ribs, which a vet took care of. Those things are fucking bricks.

 

[akachan ningen]

at least it died doing what it loved.

 

[A Link to the Past]

Reminds me of my sister's dog who just got hit by a car and killed. :<

 

[Memphis Reigns]

I'm pretty sure only a sick fuck wouldn't be disturbed by seeing a crushed raccoon slowly die.

Yeah, that's right, I'm a sick fuck.

Grow up. I didn't see the thing get hit, the OP did.

 

[Coeliacus]

at least it died doing what it loved.

I had a hyperactive jack russel. It had this funny tendency to do hit and runs (just playfully) on dogs much larger than it, nipping at their heels and pelting off as fast as it could. It soon started doing this to cars and finally tried it on a truck which didn't end well. My two comforts were that he died instantly and that he died doing what he loved. Our german shepard died of bowel cancer which was a hell of a lot more heartbreaking.

 

[Staccat0]

I grew up a country boy and I like racoons fine. They do their thing and I do mine. They would try to get at our chickens but thats just their "thang" the dogs and a well designed coop mostly kept them at bay.
No reason to dislike an animal just because they want an easy meal. You just can't make shit easy for them. Thats just part of living in the country.

If I go camping and leave food out, I don't blame a bear for wanting to eat my oreos.

It would make me sad.

My wife volunteers at a wildlife rescue and insists baby skunks are the cutest animal on earth, but I'll take a coon any day.

That said, I don't feel much just reading the description and its not fair to ask anyone to give a shit really. Would have bummed me out, but racoons are just animals and most folks don't give a fuck about critters unless they are pets.

 

[Yoboman]

Harden the fuck up

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Saw a squirrel drop from a tree after missing its jump. Hit the street hard and messed up its...BODY?! good. Lay there convulsing and could only roll around. It was so helpless, some people went right up to it to take a closer look. It eventually rolled under a parked car and likely died.

 

[Coeliacus]

Harden the fuck up

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This is how it works right?

Saw a squirrel drop from a tree after missing its jump. Hit the street hard and messed up its...BODY?! good. Lay there convulsing and could only roll around. It was so helpless, some people went right up to it to take a closer look. It eventually rolled under a parked car and likely died.

Someone should've put it out of it's misery.

 

[Masta_Killah]

Harden the fuck up

This. I've seen people get shot. Roadkill ain't shit.

 

[Router]

I hit a kangaroo on the highway once.... Not pretty for my car or the 'roo

 

[C.Dark.DN]

I think I ran over an Opossum. ;( A lot less cute, but still my first time killing somehting.

I was driving down a 35mph road. I saw it go to the yellow line. I stopped. Beeped. It didn't move. So... I put my right front and hind wheel in the grass to go around it as much as I could. I hears a thump and assume it ran toward the car.

 

[Brimstone]

As long as your not a green energy nut supporting windmill farms to generate electricity don't let it get to you. It is only one creature.

 

[Staccat0]

This. I've seen people get shot. Roadkill ain't shit.

This doesn't seem very likely since you are trying to paint it as a good thing...

also, your username is Masta_Killah.:lol

 

[Masta_Killah]

This doesn't seem very likely since you are trying to paint it as a good thing...

also, your username is Masta_Killah.:lol

Growing up in L.A. during the early 90's wasn't fun. Saw a gang member shot and die outside my apartment. During a little league game I was in, there was some car-to-car shoot outs. I've had a gun pulled at my twice in my life; once when I was 8 or so, another when I was a freshmen in high school.

Like I said, roadkill ain't shit. Grow some balls.

 

[Staccat0]

Growing up in L.A. during the early 90's wasn't fun. Saw a gang member shot and die outside my apartment. During a little league game I was in, there was some car-to-car shoot outs. I've had a gun pulled at my twice in my life; once when I was 8 or so, another when I was a freshmen in high school.

Like I said, roadkill ain't shit. Grow some balls.

:lol
What exactly is your point?
You had terrible shit happen to you and thus other people are pussies for not living in one of the shittiest cities on earth?
We don't need to grow balls. You need to see a shrink.

Also, your username is Masta_Killah:lol

EDIT: But seriously, you can't really think seeing people be murdered and becoming desensitized to violence is a good thing that people should aspire too.. right? right?

 

[Stahsky]

SOMEONE DRAW UP A RACOONSTATUTION

"There is a history in all racoon's lives. " -William Racoonspeare

LET US REMEMBER THIS DAY

 

[Mr Sandman]

I hit a field mouse on my bicycle a few weeks ago. I was going really fast when I saw it, and slammed on the brakes (only has rear) but it didn't move. Y'know how skid marks are usually black. Well this time it was red.

 

[Numpt3]

Swerving can get your ass killed if you're traveling at a high rate of speed, for example on the interstate.

I know, obviously I don't mean when your on the motorway doing 80mph. I mean on quiet rural roads and such.

 

[Numpt3]

dammit wrong thread, lol

 

[Snuggles]

We have a lot of 'coons around here. If you were to drive from one end of town to the next, you would probably see like 6 or 7 of them splattered in the middle of the road. It's fucked up.
Same with squirrels. That's why I think that we should building 12 foot walls around all roads to keep animals away from our stupid metal boxes with wheels so that they don't get crushed for our convenience.

 

[rainking187]

This is one reason people shouldn't let their house cats out, another being that they decimate native bird populations.

The cats in my neighborhood get along just fine with the racoons. I've actually seen them just laying around in the same yard together.

 

[Mr. Sam]

Aw man - to hell with this thread!

 

[SolidusDave]

Saw a gang member shot and die outside my apartment.

If only gang members etc. are involved, they can kill each all day long with me stepping over their corpses singing "oh happy day".

Exaggerated of course but usually I just feel much more sympathy with innocent animals (this includes humans) getting killed by human (technology) w/o them even realizing what's going on. And it pisses me off if the human does it on purpose for fun.