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Abigail Alfano
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Poor turtle. Poor you. I'm glad you're able to laugh about it now.
I once hit one of my neighbor's chickens (he refuses to pen them and they are always in the way. I think he leaves them loose because we are on a very small, dead end road with very little traffic. Either that or he's just lazy.)
I felt bad about it, too, for a while. But it really was kinda funny, the chicken bounced up off the bumper, hit the windshield, bounced up again, and over the roof. Almost like a cartoon...I'm not even sure it was injured, cause I didn't see anything in the rear view mirror on the ground. I wasn't about to stop and inquire as my neighbor is also quite fond of his shotguns.
I once hit one of my neighbor's chickens (he refuses to pen them and they are always in the way. I think he leaves them loose because we are on a very small, dead end road with very little traffic. Either that or he's just lazy.)
I felt bad about it, too, for a while. But it really was kinda funny, the chicken bounced up off the bumper, hit the windshield, bounced up again, and over the roof. Almost like a cartoon...I'm not even sure it was injured, cause I didn't see anything in the rear view mirror on the ground. I wasn't about to stop and inquire as my neighbor is also quite fond of his shotguns.
Every time I turn around, I wonder where I've been.
Time to stop turning round, I guess.
Time to stop turning round, I guess.
It wasn't an accident. He intended to throw a box turtle -- the non-aquatic kind -- into a river, but he missed. It splattered to its death on a rock.
Nobody was teasing, either. An expression of horror was more like it. I suppose we would have been more understanding had the tortoise not been one in a long line of animals whose death at his hands has been eulogized here, from betta fish he tired of, to goldfish he "humanely" killed by suffocating them in clove oil, to his various rats, which presumably became fodder for his snakes when he tired of them. Most recently, there was the mockingbird whose attempts to defend its nest angered him.
The comments about the perceived unattractiveness of the lady with the hummingbirds are more a reflection of the mind of the beholder than of the woman. Not a darned thing wrong with her.
Nobody was teasing, either. An expression of horror was more like it. I suppose we would have been more understanding had the tortoise not been one in a long line of animals whose death at his hands has been eulogized here, from betta fish he tired of, to goldfish he "humanely" killed by suffocating them in clove oil, to his various rats, which presumably became fodder for his snakes when he tired of them. Most recently, there was the mockingbird whose attempts to defend its nest angered him.
The comments about the perceived unattractiveness of the lady with the hummingbirds are more a reflection of the mind of the beholder than of the woman. Not a darned thing wrong with her.
Cotelette d'Agneau
More than a little distrubing. Animal abuse has long been associated with psychopathy.Lambchop wrote:It wasn't an accident. He intended to throw a box turtle -- the non-aquatic kind -- into a river, but he missed. It splattered to its death on a rock.
Nobody was teasing, either. An expression of horror was more like it. I suppose we would have been more understanding had the tortoise not been one in a long line of animals whose death at his hands has been eulogized here, from betta fish he tired of, to goldfish he "humanely" killed by suffocating them in clove oil, to his various rats, which presumably became fodder for his snakes when he tired of them. Most recently, there was the mockingbird whose attempts to defend its nest angered him.
