And everyone… ‘looks fake’ means nothing. This is the internet. Everything looks fake to our jaundiced eyes. Fully half of the comments on all YouTube videos are ‘looks fake’.
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The US military never kills “human beings”.
We do “collateral damage” and kill “the enemy” (usually referred to by a word like kraut, nip, gook, raghead, etc in a further effort to strip away any shred of humanity the soldier might find in “the enemy”).
U.S. soldiers never kill human beings.
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If there were videos of a soldier smiling and joking and then throwing an Iraqi off a cliff, there’d be outrage.
Most of the deaths inflicted by the Marines aren’t done out of malice or for kicks, it’s war fighting. It’s a different category. Also, there is quite a bit of outrage over what’s going on in Iraq. Have you missed like… the last few years?
I also think that people tend to look at domesticated animals somewhat like children in the sense that they’re weak and vulnerable to us because they trust us and they aren’t fully able to defend themselves against us. So cruelty to them strikes a stronger emotional chord.
I’d lean towards real. The audio is behind the video by a decent bit - the dog would’ve actually started making noise at about the time the guy jerked his arm back to throw him. The puppy is being so still because it’s scared.
You can probably find them in Hawaii though, which is where this took place.
Do you know that for a fact? The alleged puppy abuser was in Iraq until November.
“What’s your major malfunction son!!! You can go around killing as many of those damn Ahhh-rabs as you can get your mitts on but don’t be killing no goshdarn puppy-dogs!!!”
Looks kinda arid for Hawaii, and the buildings in the background look typically middle-eastern.
Thank you for that. It’s good to know that there are decent human beings out there. Too bad the months of effort, and planning that went into saving that puppy won’t get nearly the publicity of some sick fuck and this minute long video.
I have no idea if the video is faked or not (looks fake to me), but I can answer the question of why someone would do it. It’s not “Haha look at me pretend to kill a puppy!” It’s “Haha watch me fool the internets!!” The fun part is getting a reaction to a well executed fake. Snopes is crawling with similar hoaxes. Puppymill, Bonsaicat, etc.
I was gonna post about shocked I was that someone would needlessly kill a young animal purely for their own gratification, but I had to go eat my tea (lamb cutlets, yum!).
Course it’s fake. Not funny? Well no, but squaddies aren’t exactly renowned for their subtle humour and whimsical take on the world.
Were there the same yelps of outrage over the “cat and ceiling fan” videos, or the clips of the “cat vs sunroof” that went round a couple of years ago?
I say, he switched dogs when his back was turned to the camera. Just before he swings his arm back, you notice that he is looking down at his hand, and snaps his head towards where he’s going to throw. Why does he need to look at his hand? If you’re throwing something, you don’t look at your hand when you bring it back, you look towards your target.
At that point, his hand, rather than being at shoulder or chest level, where he throws from, is at waist level, below the camera’s view. Why was his hand so low? I don’t dip my hand that far down when throwing something, I just bring my arm straight back and throw.
Then, at the very end of the video, he’s turning away and looking down. Why? I think there is a chair or a platform of some kind, below the camera’s frame, where he set the dog down, and he’s now turning to look at it.
“Aw, that’s fake… the guy’s obviously Syrian!”
Per snopes the event took place in Iraq.
Nope, I’m just not surprised that someone whose job involves killing humans, would think nothing of killing a dog. I’m sure far more terrible events take place everyday in Iraq, but perhaps the difference in this case is that it was caught on video.
I’d say “performed” rather than “caught,” fake or not.
Lots of jobs “involve” killing humans — police work, for example. That is hardly a description of a soldier’s job. Is your opinion prevalent in Denmark? And if it is, how are your own armed forces, if any, supported?
Latest statistics I have seen is from 2007 where the danish police had shot and killed 6 persons the last 5 years, I’m quite sure they don’t get as accustomed to it as a soldier in a war. I bet US police even in bad areas don’t go through what a soldier in Iraq does either.
The sound gets louder as the “puppy” falls. This is not possible.
Veterinarians kill dogs all the time, yet I’d think they would probably not throw puppies off of cliffs for fun.
Point is, whatever killing vets (of whichever type) have done in their lives, they don’t do it for laughs, it’s for a serious and (hopefully) important purpose. You may not agree with the purpose, but that’s beside the point.
Put me on record as saying IT’S FAKE!
1)Dogs and puppies (even though not as adept as cats) will immediately squirm and try to upright themselves in mid-air and can quickly stop rotating or put themselves into an ackward rotation.
That prop or dead puppy was completely still and making perfect rotations. A yelping dog doesn’t stay motionless.
2)And the looks on the faces of the marines was not an uneasy “are you sure we should kill this dog?” look, it was more of “are you sure we should make a fake video?” look.
3) Where would they just happen onto a stray puppy in Iraq that was that clean? Iraq is dust, dirty, and filthy. That dog looked way too clean.
4) The yelping sounded way too close. The mic was picking up the marines voices normally but then picked up a yelp as clear as day from 40 yards away? Not likely.
And for those of you who are outraged even if it is fake, where were you when LeBron James fake dunked his baby on the ESPYs last year?