Ya know, I've seen a lot of sh*t in the 37 years I've been around, but yesterday on the way home from work I witnessed something that seems to kind of sum up the the human condition these days... :angry:
I was driving down a residential street a couple blocks from my office, on the way home for the evening, when I see a pair of robins ( the the feathered kind, not a pair of Dick Grayson clones
) hovering above the street, generally going nuts and dive bombing a kid about 8-10 years old on the sidewalk. I'm like, hmmm... I slow down as I approach, and the the kid kicks something under a bush and gives me a crusty look as I drive by. Once past, I look in the rear view and see the kid pull a baby robin from under the bush (that's what he kicked so I wouldn't see it) and proceed to (continue to, actually) bludgeon the crap out of this poor bird with a piece of PVC pipe. I slam on the brakes and whip around, but the evil little bastard obviously was on to me, and he quickly finished the job and booked out on his bike before I could make it back to collar him.
I stopped, got out, and went over to see if I could help the bird, but the kid had successfully beat it to death. The robin was an adolescent, probably just learning to fly, when the little serial-killer-in-the-making found it and decided to take its life. What a twisted little f*ck. :angry:
It's kids like this that start out life torturing and killing little animals that turn in to tomorrow's serial killers. It really kind of sums up for me the apparently increasing lack of respect for life that many humans seems to be developing for their own and other species. Yes, kids will be kids, but what I witnessed wasn't some peer pressure-induced mob-rules activity where the "I dare you" kinda thing gets out of hand. This little monster went out of his way to kill this helpless bird, in a most brutal and painful way. If that would have been my kid, he'd be headed for psychiatric help immediately, as behavior like that goes way beyond taking pot shots at squirrels or rabbits with a BB gun.
Anyhow, not wanting the Ted Bundy Jr. to come back to vivisect the poor creature for fun, I wrapped it in a chain wipe rag (I didn't think it'd mind the condition of the burial shroud, considering), drove home, and buried it in the backyard. In my years I've bore sad witness to someone taking their own life, but I think it's even more disheartening to see a third party rob another creature (even one as small as a bird) of it's life for it's own twisted pleasure.
Rant off. Cheers.
I was driving down a residential street a couple blocks from my office, on the way home for the evening, when I see a pair of robins ( the the feathered kind, not a pair of Dick Grayson clones
) hovering above the street, generally going nuts and dive bombing a kid about 8-10 years old on the sidewalk. I'm like, hmmm... I slow down as I approach, and the the kid kicks something under a bush and gives me a crusty look as I drive by. Once past, I look in the rear view and see the kid pull a baby robin from under the bush (that's what he kicked so I wouldn't see it) and proceed to (continue to, actually) bludgeon the crap out of this poor bird with a piece of PVC pipe. I slam on the brakes and whip around, but the evil little bastard obviously was on to me, and he quickly finished the job and booked out on his bike before I could make it back to collar him. I stopped, got out, and went over to see if I could help the bird, but the kid had successfully beat it to death. The robin was an adolescent, probably just learning to fly, when the little serial-killer-in-the-making found it and decided to take its life. What a twisted little f*ck. :angry:
It's kids like this that start out life torturing and killing little animals that turn in to tomorrow's serial killers. It really kind of sums up for me the apparently increasing lack of respect for life that many humans seems to be developing for their own and other species. Yes, kids will be kids, but what I witnessed wasn't some peer pressure-induced mob-rules activity where the "I dare you" kinda thing gets out of hand. This little monster went out of his way to kill this helpless bird, in a most brutal and painful way. If that would have been my kid, he'd be headed for psychiatric help immediately, as behavior like that goes way beyond taking pot shots at squirrels or rabbits with a BB gun.
Anyhow, not wanting the Ted Bundy Jr. to come back to vivisect the poor creature for fun, I wrapped it in a chain wipe rag (I didn't think it'd mind the condition of the burial shroud, considering), drove home, and buried it in the backyard. In my years I've bore sad witness to someone taking their own life, but I think it's even more disheartening to see a third party rob another creature (even one as small as a bird) of it's life for it's own twisted pleasure.
Rant off. Cheers.
Though, you have to consider that I am in Utah, where statistically if you have only one up-and-coming mass murderer in a brood of 12 or 14 kids, you considering it a pretty good parenting. 
<-- heavily medicated smiley
....as opposed to.........good????
it was just a stupid bird 
