Next time I will hit your dog!

[Carnacki]

@Trunk

1. I bet that guy knows what an unsafe speed in his residential area looks like a lot better than the OP does.

Implying that the OP was driving at an unsafe speed? I think to prove the OP wasn’t going 20 in a residential zone as stated we’ll need a cite.

[Trunk]

@KidScruffy

Implying that the OP was driving at an unsafe speed? I think to prove the OP wasn’t going 20 in a residential zone as stated we’ll need a cite.

Right, it’s still on my radar gun, right here.

I’m sure “Joe Neighbor” is just standing around calling in all the vehicles doing 20 in a 25 mph zone through his neighborhood. Just because your bullshit meter is broken doesn’t mean they all are.

[Fionn]

@Dooku

See this hat? T’was my cat!

My eveningwear, vampire bat.

[Carnacki]

@Trunk

Right, it’s still on my radar gun, right here.

I’m sure “Joe Neighbor” is just standing around calling in all the vehicles doing 20 in a 25 mph zone through his neighborhood. Just because your bullshit meter is broken doesn’t mean they all are.

[DV] I find your lack of faith…disturbing… [DV]

[vetbridge]

@Harborwolf

One of them has already been hit once. They’ll probably get hit again.

I get a kick over the animals I treat after they get hit for the nth time (n being a positive integer greater than one). Often these pet owners lament over how stupid the dog is, being hit for the nth time and all. I sometimes will point out that while the dog may be stupid, the dog isn’t the one paying another large veterinary bill.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@vetbridge

I sometimes will point out that while the dog may be stupid, the dog isn’t the one paying another large veterinary bill.

I can’t see why. If the dog can afford a lease, surely he can afford health insurance.

[Contrapuntal]

@Trunk

Right, it’s still on my radar gun, right here.

I’m sure “Joe Neighbor” is just standing around calling in all the vehicles doing 20 in a 25 mph zone through his neighborhood. Just because your bullshit meter is broken doesn’t mean they all are.

Well we know Joe Neighbor is a fuckwad for letting his dog run loose. I love my dogs more than almost everybody in the whole world. (Cate Blanchett got bumped when I found out she was married.) But the last thing I would do is blame the driver of a car who hit my dog when she was running around in the street. She has no business there and it is my responsibility to see that she is safe. Nobody else’s.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@askeptic

My comment was specifically addressed to the sentiment expressed in the text I quoted in my post. I just thought it was stupid to suggest that dogs can get darwin awards. The darwin awards are meant to hi-light PEOPLE who do stupid things that get them killed. The tongue in cheek award is to THANK idiots for removing themselves from OUR (human) gene pool.

I thought attributing fault or stupidity on the part of the dog was rediculous. Dogs run around they do not understand things like traffic and right of way. It is the owners responsibility to keep control of the dog.

I did not think any of this was controversial and did not think it needed explaining hence my brief comment. <snip>

Okay, now I do know where you’re coming from, and I agree. Applying the Darwin Award principle to pets is silly. They should all be spayed or neutered, anyway.

[Princhester]

@askeptic

I just thought it was stupid to suggest that dogs can get darwin awards. The darwin awards are meant to hi-light PEOPLE who do stupid things that get them killed. The tongue in cheek award is to THANK idiots for removing themselves from OUR (human) gene pool.

I thought attributing fault or stupidity on the part of the dog was rediculous. Dogs run around they do not understand things like traffic and right of way. It is the owners responsibility to keep control of the dog.

I don’t understand this one little bit. The Darwin awards are given to people whose demise improves the gene pool because the manner of their demise implies that they are stupid and therefore ill adapted.

If a dog is the type of dog that is so stupid or careless that it runs out in front of cars it is clearly ill adapted to the urban environment. Why that shouldn’t attract a Darwin award I don’t understand.

I suppose so many dogs are ill adapted to the urban environment that giving them all Darwin awards would be a bit over the top. Nonetheless, in principle, dogs stupid and silly enough that they can’t handle and avoid a basic danger present in their environment such that they remove themselves from the gene pool seems the epitomy of Darwin-award behaviour to me.

[Contrapuntal]

@EddyTeddyFreddy

Snow chains + Jack Russell = terrier tartare.

I suppose that’s a plan, but, ya gotta ask yourself, Do I feel lucky today?

[Will_Repair]

@KidScruffy

[DV] I find your lack of faith…disturbing… [DV]www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="I+find+your+lack+of+faith+disturbing."
Results 1 - 10 of about 144,000

Gross.

[Cat_Whisperer]

Great picture, Contrapuntal. So fitting that it’s a Jack Russell Terrorist, somehow.

[Cherry2000]

[Dr. Demento]

Dead…puppies…
Dead…puppies…
Dead…puppies aren’t much fun…

[/Dr. Demento]

[purpler]

@askeptic

I was knee jerkingly reacting to what I thought was a stupid attempt to attribute fault to the dog. My bad, I do know better than to go off half cocked, but I am a dumb ass and do it anyway sometimes.

So, in answer to your question Brian, no you don’t have to wait till winter. I will be sitting over here in the corner eating a crow sandwich and chanting “Read whole thread before posting” over and over to myself.

It may not be in the spirit of the pit, but i felt it necessary to commend this wonderful post. “Eating crow” and taking ownership of our own shit is hard as hell, especially on anonymous message boards. I admire and respect you for this, askeptic.