Sorry, but you’re never going to convince me that having people say mean things about you on the internet is too much punishment for trying to kill a cat. I know it’s a cat, but I also know that hurt feelings aren’t too high a price to pay for attempting to make someone’s pet dead.
Yeah, she did do something bad and she should be punished. So the cat’s owner can call the cops or take her to court. They have the authority to deal with things like this. Why? Because we assume them to be impartial and rational and to dole out punishments based on evidence, not emotion. In a civilized society people don’t let an unruly mob handle things. There’s a good reason for that and if I have to explain why that is to you then, well, you’re beyond help.
I don’t think anyone’s defending the people who sent her death threats, not even the owners. The fact is, this shit wouldn’t have happened if she didn’t put the fucking cat in the fucking bin, like you said kidneyfailure. I’m glad she got caught. It’s not the owner’s concern what other people are saying. If it were my cat, I would look for whoever did something like that to it because it’d be my damn cat. It wouldn’t be my problem if crazy animal lovers have fit over it.
If the women were to take something valuable of theirs instead, would you have a problem with them putting the video of it on the web to try and figure out who it was? It’s not their responsibility to predict how other people would react.
You don’t understand! You’re a BAD PERSON if you mention on the Internet that someone else was a bad person in real life! Talking about something is much, much worse than actually doing harm!
Erm… the ‘unruly mob’ have made facebook pages, not tarred and feathered her. Public humiliation follows from public bad behavior. There’s a good reason for that, and if I have to explain it to you, well, you’re beyond help.
Seriously, kidneyfailure, please try to help me understand why you believe that being shamed is excessive suffering for doing something shameful?
Twenty-some-odd years ago one of my brother’s drunk friends put our dog in the refrigerator. He later explained that it was supposed to be a joke: Person opens the fridge door, dog jumps out and scares the person. Blah blah blah. My mom found the dog, who was unhurt (but a little cold), found out who put him in there, and gave him a nice tongue lashing. The guy apologized, the dog was ok, and he never tried anything like that ever again. Should I put his info online now, with that story, and encourage everyone to hunt him down and harrass him for being an “asshole?” Who cares if it was two decades ago?! His own behavior would be the source of his troubles, don’t you think?
Or should I, like a civilized person with a working brain, just accept his apology and tell him not to do that ever again? You see, people did get adequately punished in the days before the Internet. It wasn’t only when Youtube and Google came around did people finally start getting the punishments they deserve.
I hope the cat lady sues the shit out of that guy for invasion of privacy. His crime was far worse than hers.
ETA: unruly mobs making facebook pages? There were also mobs outside of her home and, as I said, she had to be taken into the protective custody of the police. You’re gonna say that’s not harrassment? Yeah, she did something shameful and illegal: SO LET A JUDGE PUNISH HER! The authorities have the right to deal with this, not some Internet cowards.
They didn’t do it to have everyone call her an asshole, they did it to catch her. And your brother’s drunk friends are assholes. They **used **a dog for their prank. Plus, if I were the cat’s owners, I wouldn’t have thought it would get so out of hand, but it’s still not their problem.
You sure about that? Because most people with working brains differentiate between “something a drunk kid did 20 years ago” and “something a sober middle-aged person did this morning”.
Thing is, your friend was shamed. The lack of technology to make the shaming extremely public is unfortunate, but not really relevant.
You’re a seriously twisted individual if you really believe that calling her out for putting the cat in the bin is worse behavior than putting the cat in the bin.
Catch her…and then what? Turn her case over to the cops and leave it at that? Fine, go for it! Catch her and then force her to wear an electronic scarlet letter by having her name, address, and picture Googlable forever? Fuck that. And you all disagree with the death threats and harrassment but support her public naming and shaming which will make harrassment or violence against her possible? Explain that one to me.
Yeah, she did something stupid and shitty. So have you. So have I. So have all of us. But no one gave any of us the right to pass judgement on anyone else.
The guy that posted video footage of his street taken by his camera on his house?
…yeah.
Not like that.
Except you, who have the right to pass judgment over the entire internet. Well done, sir!
Yep. That very same guy who posted the footage to Facebook, instead of taking it privately to the cops, thereby facilitating the invasion of the woman’s privacy. Dunno if you guys know this or not, but even lowlives have rights, one of which is privacy.
It’s not like she was picking her nose. :rolleyes:
No, she just mimed the scene, including a rather determined march to and from the bin.
You’ve never done anything as bad as, or worse, than putting a cat in a can? Wow, teach me to be as saintly and perfect as you are! Because I may not have committed the horrible sin of putting a cat in a garbage can for a while, but, by grace of my being an imperfect human, I have done worse things. I’ve lied to people, I’ve cheated them, I’ve hurt them emotionally…all of which I’d say are much worse than the crime committed here. Should I be named and shamed for all eternity?
You say that as though she intended that cat to ever come OUT of that bin. I don’t assume that, at all.
I’m sure I’ve hurt some peoples’ feelings in my day. I don’t consider that worse than killing someone’s pet. That’s just me, though.
As to whether either of us deserves to be named and shamed for all eternity, well… welcome to the internet age, where that’s up to the folks we’ve wronged. Perhaps it will encourage people to be a little more careful.
A right to privacy on public streets?
By the way, you are, in my opinion, wrong. People are more important than cats. They are also not defenseless. People have ways of getting back at you, which is of course the entire theme of this thread.
You also seem to be oblivious to the fact that this woman wronged not only the cat, but her owner. And he’s taken his revenge. Consequences can suck.
I know the worst thing I’ve done, and it doesn’t involve the possible demise of someone’s pet. If **kidneyfailure’s **done worse things, he’s either a big jerk, or doesn’t understand what this crime could equate to.