Well, this is the news in another part of the internet - Kardashian baby starts crawling! OMFG! Stop the presses! Baby I don’t care about of people I don’t care about does something normal for a baby!
Take it off the glue trap and stir fry the sucker. You are going to want a very dry red wine to go with, though. Rat’s a bit gamy.
Damn! Beat me to it.
Deliberate animal cruelty is often a sign of sociopathy.
People are in love with their pets and when they die people are deeply depressed. Animals that are vermin and people aren’t attached to we don’t care about. Duh.
There’s also a fundamental difference between killing an animal for the purpose of getting rid of it, and tormenting an animal purely for cruelty’s sake.
I think most of the attention is due to the identity of the culprit. You hear “cat put in wheelie bin” and you figure a teenager or drunk person was behind it. That the party responsible is fully lucid and middle aged is shocking, at the very least. It’s not expected behavior.
“Fully lucid” remains to be seen. As noted by Guinastasia, casual abuse of animals is a highly reliable diagnostic of potentially dangerous (to humans) sociopathy.
The bottom line is that you can’t have a society unless people are somehow restrained from killing and raping and stealing and whatnot every time the thought pops into their heads that it’d be nice to get rid of that person/have sex with that person/have that stuff/whatever. There are two restraints: internal restraint (conscience) and external (fear of punishment). In some people, the former is simply absent: kaput, finito, nonfunctional, pining for the fjords. Such people need to be either removed from society of have the “fear of punishment” restraint cranked up to eleven so that it can do the job alone. Ergo, swift and serious punishment of the sort of crimes that serve as warnings markers of those people is good policy.
I think she was just trolling the internet.
Among children or young men – but that’s things more like beating the animal, trying to light it on fire, cutting off its ears or tail, etc. This lady seems more like she was just making her small, personal stab at genocide, not an attempt at being “cruel”, per se. I don’t think most people would think that dumping a rat in a dumpster would be cruelty, because it’s a pest. In many parts of the world, cats and dogs are viewed as pests just like ants and rodents. This lady may be a foreigner from such a place, or she may simply have come to the conclusion that cats are pests on her own.
You have to remember that nearly everyone is sociopathic. If I hear that 20 soldiers have died in a battle just a few minutes ago, I don’t cry for them like I would a friend, a neighbour, and especially not like a loved one, and yet it’s still the loss of a human life of no less worth than my friend’s so far as the world is concerned. We all have a certain bubble of caring that we extend out, taking in only as many people or special interests as we have the heart for. Outside of that bubble, intellectually we might know that something is wrong, but we just don’t feel it.
Like I pointed out in the other thread, when a cat is harmed, The Internet comes down on them like a steamroller. Dogs? Parakeets? Gophers? Not so much. There’s a social conformity to include cats in the bubble of caring for people on the internet. But that bubble is fairly blasé about any other animal. Given that, it’s a bit quick to jump to the conclusion that trying to kill a cat (in the fashion shown) is synonymous with people who torture animals. Starving an animal to death is almost certainly torture, but again I think that many normal people would throw a rat into a box that it couldn’t escape from and let it die of starvation. “Out of sight, out of mind” is a fairly true saying for our race. And of course, actually banging the head in of a rat is actual, sight-seen proof that you murdered the little fellow. In the box, well he might find a way to escape~ we say to ourselves.
If you’re familiar with /b/tards and their love of and defense for cats (except, well, for the /b/tards who troll by hurting cats) then it all makes a lot more sense.
Mission accomplished, in that case.
I disagree. In this case, you can see that her intent is to put the cat in the bin right from the start - you can see her glancing at the bin. Simply cuffing or even hitting the animal is nothing compared to her premeditated act.
I read half way through this thread before I realized ‘wheelie bin’ was not British for wood chipper.
Or one very startled trash collector, when a squalling cat leaped out at him.
Personally, I find it no different to shoot rhinos for their horns than to transport my dog in a crate. Heh! Heh! Heh!
No, where’s yer wheelie bin? (link to slightly off-colour joke).
This woman is now known as Bin Lady…which sounds a lot like Bin Ladin.
I like that.
So what’s worse, what Bin Lady did, or making your cat do this?
The worst part of her action, to anyone who knows cats, is that the cat is being very friendly in greeting her; tail up, “Hello !”. The cat is trusting her, and then is put in the trash bin. The cat didn’t yowl or scratch her, so, it’s just a fucked up mystery why she did it. From the cat’s point of view, it’s sad because it was being friendly, and then has a traumatic dark enclosure for a long while. Poor freaked out kitty.
I don’t get the pitchfork mob response of wanting to hurt the woman, but, well, she did it, was caught on camera, and has some explaining to do.
Let’s see if astute young Brits come out with an angry band name:“Wheelie Bin Kittens”. Rooowwwrrr!
I’m reporting this link for excessive Brittishness. The first sentence alone has the words (if I can call them that) “dustman”, “wheelie bin”, and “lorry”. I am sorry sir, but I just can not abide that.
You are on notice. Be advised that if you refer to stairs as “apple and pears” you will be summarily beaten.