kicking a pigeon to death

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I know not many people like pigeons but there's no excuse for this.

I happen to like pigeons, I admire any animal classed as vermin.

Anyway, a colleague just watched two boys chase and kick an already injured pigeon while their mother looked on. She was afraid to say anything as it was a pretty hard faced looking family.

I don't know if I could have stopped myself.

You?

― hoorie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 16 December 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Kids that do this kind of thing grow up to be even bigger assholes.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Friday, 16 December 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Especially with parents like that.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 16 December 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

I'd have gone loco, no question about it.

― Zora (Zora), Friday, 16 December 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

depends how hard the family looked. i think it's fucking despicable and disgusting behaviour, but i'm not sure me hoving up and going: "OY YOU LITTLE FUCKERS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING" and then getting in a big fight with the mum would necessarily have solved anything.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 16 December 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

What about walking up and going "real men feed them bicarbonate of soda"?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 December 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

I'd have gone in screaming, grabbed the pigeon and run I think. And then wondered wtf to do with a half dead pigeon.

― Zora (Zora), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

fuck it and eat it?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

(having sampled it and looped it first, of course)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

of course

being a vegetarian can be such a waste at times

― Zora (Zora), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

They were teenage boys if it makes any difference.

― hoorie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

"I admire any animal classed as vermin"????

kicking an animal to death is obviously dud.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Years ago I worked in a kitchen factory and one of the (ex prison, for assaulting a policeman) employees caught a pigeon that’d flown into the building and threw it into the incinerator and stood there while it flapped about. He thought nothing wrong with this either.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Good lord. We'd all like to think we'd intervene, but I can sympathize with being paralyzed in that situation—all the violent stomping pheromones flying around. Sheesh. That mother!
BUT...Maybe they thought of it as a mercy killing, because the pigeon was in a bad way, but then kind of bungled the deed.
If I hit a squirrel and it's flipping around in the road I go back and run it over again. Maybe they were COUNTRY.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Rats, pigeons, urban foxes. I can't believe people slate animals for doing well.

― hoorie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

it's us or them

― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

I see plenty of injured pigeons in the town, in fact about half of them seem to be lacking a foot, dragging a wing whatever. But pigeons being pigeons they get along, pecking up chips and fag ends alongside their able-bodied brothers quite happily.

I wouldn't kick one to death.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

rumpie! how (why) the hell have you managed to change yr posting name in the space of two minutes in one thread?

jus' wondrin'!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Cause I'm a bad mo-fo!

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

fair 'nuff!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

revive!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/scientists-look-to-revive-the-long-extinct-passenger-pigeon/2013/07/08/3d1323d4-b9a1-11e2-aa9e-a02b765ff0ea_story_1.html

― how's life, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:07 (thirteen years ago)

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