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Dunno about sick, but different. There is an instinctive pleasure in the kill, experienced by some, and some seem addicted to it.
When I was a kid I killed bugs a lot. But I grew out of it.
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Dunno about sick, but different. There is an instinctive pleasure in the kill, experienced by some, and some seem addicted to it.
When I was a kid I killed bugs a lot. But I grew out of it.
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A friend and I decimated the frog population around his family's boat dock on the lake one preadolescent summer with a pellet gun. We grew out of it as well.
Immature is a plain language equivalent for personality disorsee. Trophy hunting is close to as sick as it gets in my humble clinical opinion.
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08-21-2015, 11:28 AM
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A friend and I decimated the frog population around his family's boat dock on the lake one preadolescent summer with a pellet gun.
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I beat a rat to death with a canoe paddle once. I had a .22 target pistol at the time but I didn't want to put holes in the walls.
I had to chase him all over the house before I finally got him cornered.
Believe me, those fuckers can fly. He went over the back of the couch like an Olympic High hurdler.
I think the fucker got into the house thru the dryer vent. There was a little space around it and I've heard that a good sized rat can squeeze through a hole the size of a quarter with no problem.
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08-24-2015, 08:43 PM
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Jane Goodall is a sincere old girl, but is a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
I do not, however, understand trophy hunting. If you want to be seen as Billy Bob Badass, go hunt something that shoots back. Any idiot can hide in the bushes all day with a cannon and wait for an animal to walk by. Stupid, useless, and demeaning.
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09-01-2015, 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
A friend and I decimated the frog population around his family's boat dock on the lake one preadolescent summer with a pellet gun. We grew out of it as well.
Immature is a plain language equivalent for personality disorsee. Trophy hunting is close to as sick as it gets in my humble clinical opinion.
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We used to collect frogs in spring when the flats flooded but we did eat the legs - delicious.
I have a photo of Dr, Goodall with our granddaughters hanging on the wall of the Playroom.
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09-01-2015, 07:47 AM
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We used to collect frogs in spring when the flats flooded but we did eat the legs - delicious.
I have a photo of Dr, Goodall with our granddaughters hanging on the wall of the Playroom.
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The fishing was also great around our dock that summer as the easy food from all the frog corpses attracted a lot of bass to the immediate area. Of course in those days I also had no problem with watching an animal struggle on the end of a line with a barbed hook in it's head. So I was off in a number of ways back in those days.
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09-01-2015, 10:04 AM
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Of course in those days I also had no problem with watching an animal struggle on the end of a line with a barbed hook in it's head.
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Boy! Memories!
The last time I went fishing.... the LAST time....., we were fishing for stripers in the York River in Maine. The bait we were using was live elvers.
As I sat in the boat casting and recasting, all the while torturing this dying animal by repeatedly slamming it into the surface of the water, the magnitude of the obscenity I was perpetrating slapped me upside the head. It completely put me off fishing for the rest of my life.
A similar episode occurred some yeas later. A friend who had a lot of whippets and a few goats found himself with a lot of whippets and a lot of goats.
He asked me to come by and off a couple of goats so that he could butcher them for dog food. So I went over to his place and began walking up to these innocent creatures and plugging them between the eyes. Turned out to be 8 or 9 goats, including one tiny little kid bleating for its mother (whom I had just killed).
I sold my one remaining gun the next day.
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09-01-2015, 10:15 AM
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Apart from the frogs, and that only laster about two spring floods I have, I am happy to say, never killed anything beyond some mosquitoes in my life. I did sit with a pet cat while he went to sleep at the vets, but I figured I owed him that.
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