# Marine throws puppy off a cliff **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 4, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093 "2008-03-04T21:29:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/61 "2008-03-05T04:55:42Z")
[QUOTE=dnooman] **Autolycus** seems to find some humor in it. I think that’s reprehensible IMHO. Puns are not funny when (potential) dead puppies are involved. Nor are they ever funny for that matter. Keep that in mind. [/QUOTE] You don’t have to find a subject funny to make a joke about it. I happened to think bAutolycus\*\*'s pun was pretty funny. That in no way says I think throwing a dog off a cliff is humorous. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/62 "2008-03-05T05:01:33Z")
[QUOTE=Snarky\_Kong] You don’t have to find a subject funny to make a joke about it. I happened to think bAutolycus\*\*'s pun was pretty funny. That in no way says I think throwing a dog off a cliff is humorous. [/QUOTE] You are clearly stupid. I imagine that many things entertain your simple mind. You thought a pun was funny, you’ve automatically lost any high ground you might have wanted. Dead puppy puns, make it your thing. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/63 "2008-03-05T05:04:48Z")
People will believe anything. It’s a setup fake stunt from the first frame and not a particularly adept one. Marine will still get fried for bringing dishonor on the Corps. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/64 "2008-03-05T05:29:13Z")
Looks fake to me. ---
**Author:** ![Trollhaugen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Trollhaugen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trollhaugen)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/65 "2008-03-05T05:43:04Z")
[QUOTE=dnooman] You are clearly stupid. I imagine that many things entertain your simple mind. You thought a pun was funny, you’ve automatically lost any high ground you might have wanted. Dead puppy puns, make it your thing. [/QUOTE] People can be amused by puns and not be stupid. I like puns; I find that they can be clever at times. I happen not to be stupid. Your hypothesis fails. You are clearly a dick and possibly stupid. As for the puppy video, I will not click the link. I do not want to see it. Anyone that would throw a dog off a cliff or fake throwing a dog off a cliff deserves what they get. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/66 "2008-03-05T05:55:53Z")
[QUOTE=cricetus] There’s no video yet, but I hear another U.S. soldier killed a human being in Iraq. It might just be a rumor. [/QUOTE] Was that the one where the U.S. soldier claimed to be acting in self-defense? Or the one where people justified it by saying the victim was a terrorist or insurgent? Or the one where maybe the victim was actually innocent, but we should try to sympathize because it was in the heat of battle? As awful as the loss of human life, it often happens in morally ambiguous circumstances. There’s no moral ambiguity in two grinning, laughing men throwing a puppy off a cliff, no pretense of self-defense, just cruelty for the fun of it. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/67 "2008-03-05T05:56:12Z")
If it is fake, then it doesn’t matter whether anyone else finds it funny. Freedom of expression means the freedom to pretend to throw a puppy of a cliff. Although, it probably was not so smart to do it in uniform. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/68 "2008-03-05T06:10:42Z")
Pre-throwing puppy looks real. Post-launch looks fake to me though. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/69 "2008-03-05T06:24:46Z")
[QUOTE=dnooman] **Autolycus** seems to find some humor in it. I think that’s reprehensible IMHO. Puns are not funny when (potential) dead puppies are involved. Nor are they ever funny for that matter. Keep that in mind. [/QUOTE] Humor can be a way of coping with awful situations. That, and as it’s been said, it’s possible to make a joke about a situation that in reality is far from humorous. Dead baby jokes ring a bell. I don’t see how you hating puns has any bearing on anything either. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/70 "2008-03-05T06:44:58Z")
Wasn’t that bad. Pain level relatively low for these Boards, “alien probing” level but not “shitting a pineapple” level. I doubt its even indictable. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/71 "2008-03-05T06:50:38Z")
That’s 'cause you ain’t this guy. Assuming he really is a Marine (and his buddies are to) I’d say the pain level is WAY above “shitting a pineapple” level for him tonight. After the officers get done reaming him a new one it will be time for the NCO’s to join the fun… And my heart simply bleeds for these poor misunderstood schlubs… … … Not! -XT (And I feel this way if it’s a fake. If it’s real? Getting their hide ripped off them by their Sgt. is too good for them. They need to be tossed out with a DD) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/72 "2008-03-05T07:02:25Z")
[QUOTE=xtisme] That’s 'cause you ain’t this guy… [/QUOTE] Ahh, no. Its because I was talking about the pun. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/73 "2008-03-05T07:15:02Z")
Ah…never mind then. Apologies and all that. -XT ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/74 "2008-03-05T07:26:09Z")
_Por nada_ ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/75 "2008-03-05T07:27:03Z")
[QUOTE=AudreyK] Also, the soldier was holding the dog by the scruff of the neck, and I’ve noticed that baby animals carried this way tend to go quiet and still. So it doesn’t mean much to me that the dog was as still as it was. [/QUOTE] It seems too still. The puppy doesn’t move in the 8+ seconds before it gets thrown, and then it doesn’t move on it’s own. > [@dnooman](#): > > You are clearly stupid. I imagine that many things entertain your simple mind. > > You thought a pun was funny, you’ve automatically lost any high ground you might have wanted. > > Dead puppy puns, make it your thing. Good god, were you not around for all the puns when the Challenger blew up? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/76 "2008-03-05T07:39:05Z")
What do you get when you poke a dead puppy with a bayonet? An erection. What’s the difference between a truckload of dead puppies and a truckload of bowling balls? Can’t unload the bowling balls with a pitchfork. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/77 "2008-03-05T08:01:32Z")
What’s black and white and flew? (I know I know, going to hell) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/78 "2008-03-05T08:05:57Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] C’mon guys, it’s a plush stuffed puppy toy with another Marine shouting “Yipe! Yipe! Yipe!” in the background. I can’t believe anyone is falling for this. You can get stuffed animals that look just like the real thing. Like [this](http://www.thisplaceisazoo.com/products/realistic-dog.html#PP9101) one - look familiar? I’ll eat my hat if this is real. [/QUOTE] It tumbles through the air like an object much heavier than a stuffed toy. Besides, the thing looks like a damned real dog. Anyhow, I generally have a pretty good sense on what’s real and what’s fake in terms of videos, and this one looks pretty real to me. I’d be willing to put good money on it. ---
**Author:** ![svrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@svrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svrider)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/79 "2008-03-05T08:18:57Z")
[QUOTE=cricetus] There’s no video yet, but I hear another U.S. soldier killed a human being in Iraq. It might just be a rumor. [/QUOTE] My thoughts exactly. Thousands of people are killed in Iraq and now when it happens to a puppy, everyone is outraged and it makes the news around the world. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093/80 "2008-03-05T09:08:15Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] You can get stuffed animals that look just like the real thing. Like [this](http://www.thisplaceisazoo.com/products/realistic-dog.html#PP9101) one - look familiar? [/QUOTE] They might be hard to find in the shops in Iraq. Some sort of supply chain thing, maybe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marine-throws-puppy-off-a-cliff/440093.md?page=5)