A woman who stopped at an intersection to allow a chicken to cross the road allegedly attacked another driver with bear mace for killing the bird.
  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyzEnglish
    14·
    4 days ago

    I was on her side until I read the article. She chased this person an unspecified distance in her car, blocked the chicken killer’s car with her own, then attempted to open their car door, before settling on macing them.

    Fuck that impatient chicken killer but you don’t get to do a road rage for some vigilante justice. This was just two psychopaths being brought together by circumstance.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    The driver who killed the chicken is a shit stain and she will eventually kill someone. Imagine if that a child, elderly person or someone on a wheelchair.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Ngl, that would likely be me.

    Not just because I like chickens, though that’s a factor.

    In my neighborhood, if you go the posted speed limit going one direction in the section that my house is on, you’d be going slow enough to be able to correct and not hit an animal. Going the other direction, as long as you don’t slam the pedal down, it’s the same.

    So anyone hitting any critter with the possible exception of squirrels is 99.9~% likely to be doing something they shouldn’t. I’ve gotten in altercations about it before because we have not just a lot of pets in the area, but kids. So some fucking moron is going to hear about out when they’re showing exactly how fucking stupid they are.

    But, I also happen to kinda know all the neighborhood chickens. Not necessarily on a first name, come her for petting basis, but I know which birds live where. Since I also have my own, and would gladly curb stomp any motherfucker that fucked with them, I would likely at least lay hands on a motherfucker for killing any of the neighborhood birds by being a moron. I’m old, but my tolerance for fuckery like that keeps getting lower as I age.

    Accidents do happen, but some jackass trying to be all badass by speeding in a residential area can fuck right off and die. And yes, I’m talking about you, Robert, you absolute prat. Jackass. Done told you once. Fuckwit.

    Anyway, yeah, chances are high the lady was justified as long as the dude is still alive

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
    English
    13·
    5 days ago

    The way this kind of animal murder is normalized for drivers is beyond disturbing. Imagine a cyclist who came upon some birds blocking the cycle path, pulled out a pocket knife, and started stabbing them so they could get through 20 seconds faster.

    It’s the same psychopathic “might makes right” mentality that makes people turn a blind eye to the needless, systemic, unfathomable horrors of animal agriculture.

    • Fondots@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      I have a Belgian Malinois, which, if you’re not aware, is basicallythe breed of dog used by military and police that aren’t German Shepherds. They are absolute maniacs of dogs, full of all kinds of prey drive and herding instincts and such that have long-since been bred out of your average family pet.

      So for a while when I still had a Facebook I followed a couple of Malinois pages to help me better understand what was going on in my dog’s head.

      Now some malinois owners are great, they understand the reasons why their dogs are the way they are and understand how to manage them properly.

      Others are absolute assholes who just wanted the really cool supersoldier dog that can run up walls and eat bad guys, and don’t really do anything to channel that energy properly

      I remember one post in particular of some guy’s dog “playing” with a turtle, picking it up, throwing it around, etc.

      I’m a dog owner, I’ve at times dabbled in hunting, I’m an environmentalist and conservationist, I know what sort of laws are out there and what is and isn’t allowed. And people are stupid and make entirely too much information about themselves available online.

      So I could see from this guy’s profile what state (and in fact what city he was in, what high school he went to what company he works for, etc.)

      And I could easily Google what the laws in that state are

      And lol and behold, allowing your dog to harass wildlife is not allowed in that state. There were fines, potentially prison time, the officials could even take your dog and have them destroyed over this. I think it might have even been legal, maybe even encouraged, in that state for anyone witnessing this happening to just shoot your dog on the spot.

      I of course wasn’t about to report this guy over this, I didn’t want his dog put down or anything, I just wanted him to be a better, more responsible dog owner, so I pointed this out in the comments, that were, up until that point, mostly just other assholes jerking each other off over how cool malinois are.

      He, of course, quickly took the past down after that.

      But not before a whole bunch of people got really pissy about me looking at his profile (to see the information about himself that he made publicly available I guess?) and taking the time to Google the relevant laws in his state so that I could point out exactly why what he was doing wasn’t just morally wrong but actually illegal.

      There were disturbingly few people commenting on that post who were simply angry that this jackass was letting his dog fuck with a turtle.

      As an aside, my dog is a rare “lazy” malinois. She’s still more energetic and driven than pretty much any other dog I’ve ever met, there’s a part of her that definitely wants to eat someone’s face, but she’s content to sleep on the couch all day instead. She definitely would chase some rabbits, deer, foxes, squirrels, etc. given the chance (I don’t give her the chance,) and she’s never seen a turtle, but she seems to like just sniffing and occasionally licking frogs and toads (I try not to let her, but she occasionally finds them before I do on our walks, the amphibians seem mildly annoyed by this, but not enough to hop away from her, and I make sure to get her away from them ASAP so that they can continue frogging undisturbed.)

        • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          People trying to label the act of viewing information willfully placed on a public profile as “stalking” just highlights their own technological illiteracy.

          Don’t want random passersby seeing inside your internet equivalent of a street facing window? Close the curtains.

          • Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            It’s not “tech illiteracy” you muppet, a person standing with their nose to your front window is fine for you? You must be overjoyed with how much data megacorps collect on you to microtarget ads because you provided it.

            • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              I’m not, which is why I don’t make information I don’t want to be publicly scrutinized visible on pages any rando can access by simply clicking a link plastered under/on my name, you ignoramus.

        • Fondots@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          i don’t know if you can really call it stalking if they’re willingly making information about themselves available for anyone to see. I didn’t have to so much as punch his name into google, just click his name at the top of his post and it was all there for anyone to see.

          He didn’t have to put his information out there and make it publicly available, but presumably he was ok with everyone on Facebook having access to that information about him.

          And if he wasn’t ok with that, it made him realize his error so he could address it.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        Boss at work and his main lackey both got malanois recently, and trained them to attack, but trained them poorly, so now they’ll do the dog equivalent of “two for flinching” regularly. I always just say “the fuck you want?” all mean and loud and they back off, for now…

        I’m not looking forward to when I have to mace one of these little cunts if I have to. Like I get it, they’re just “protecting their boss,” but also this is a warehouse, I’m literally required to be here, and if you bite me for needing the pallet jack 5ft from my boss I’m gonna have to protect myself so I can make it to the lawsuit.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      5 days ago

      I’m sorry, but what?!

      Do you know of people that intentionally kill animals with their cars? I’ve never once hard of this. That’s serial killer shit.

      No, 99.99% of roadkill is accidental.

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    lol, her expression says it all, “Worth it, 10/10 would mace that bitch again.”

    Might do a little jail time but the chicken killer will think twice. I mean, christ, you live in Key West. Get on island time already.