I'm a murderer, are you one too?

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet]Catchy title, eh? I thought so too. Ahem, anyway the topic of this post is kind of odd.

I was driving my car on one of the side roads around my town today and while I was driving along this pheasent comes running across the road. Then just as my car comes towards it, the stupid pheasent starts walking real slow. I didn't have time to stop and I didn't feel like swerving into on coming traffic with my daughter in the car, so I did what any other motorist in my situation would do...I ran over it. Then after I looked in my rear view mirror and saw the feathers flying up in the air and the cars behind me going around it I realized it was dead. So there you have it, I'm a murderer. But now that I look back, I remember that the bird did slow down when it saw my car...so I think it was suicidal too begin with. The pheasent wanted to die!

So, I was wondering, have any of you ever made road kill out of a creature crossing the road? Or did someone you know do it? I want some good stories so I can feel less bad about myself. Even if my brother does the same thing.[/color]

[Godelsensei]

[COLOR=Gray][FONT=Courier New]I don't know about road-kill, but my uncle's friend once killed a deer by shooting it not in the face (or anywhere else, for that matter), but through the gap between its horns.

Don't ask me how he achieved this, because I honestly don't know.

O_o"[/FONT][/COLOR]

[PainfulLife]

I just started my in car lessons and stuff so I'm still prety horrible at handling the car... Well once I was driving along and my dad screams to stop... well me being the stupid person was all there aren't any stop signs or signals so why stop? I figured that out as I heard a big thump and an bump.... I stopped the car and ran out to see a cat hiding under my car looking scared to death! I had hit the poor thing and the owner came yelling and screaming at me telling me to watch the road... I felt totally horrible and ended up paying for the vet bill with my allowance just to have the thing die from old age (apparantly) two months later.... The reason the cat was supposedly in the road in the first place was that it was a blind senile old cat probably actually wishing for it's life to have been over...

^________^ I'm odd I really did feel for the cat but... it was kinda old.... get my point... *_*

[DeathBug]

My neighbor has three tiny scottish terriers she lets run free in the yard; I always have to stop and count 'em off before I pull into the driveway. They made me nervous before, but I always figured, if worst came to worst, they'd have enough sense to get out of the way of my car.

Until the day they activly ran to and under my car.

Someone's going to accidently kill those tiny dogs, and I hope it's not me.

[Sword Breaker]

Does sloughtering 50 innocent people, sticking them in an apartment building, lighting it on fire, then leaving your evil past behind count as murder? No? Oh... well, I guess the five or six squirrles who I blew all to hell with my BB gun, but those basteds deserved it!!! They were... umm... looking at me...

Anyway, I gotta go, that squirrle just looked at me funny...

[chobit]

My dad ran over a squirrel once and I cried a lot.It was very sad beacuse I looked back and it was all twitchy and stuff.

[Vicky]

[SIZE=1][B]I ran over a bird with a broken wing on my brother's motorbike >.< it wasn't [I]my[/I] fault, it was a park for god's sake! Birds should know already by the sound of motors that people are [I]speeding around like madmen[/I] on dirtbikes! I got off it after that though and decided to go for a walk (or... run if you don't want to get caught in the line of... drivers...).

My mum runs birds over when the won't move. In fact, she just runs them over anyway. I'm pretty sure that when she spots a bird on the road, she speeds up >.< But I've only murdered one thing in my life. Not counting the hamster I let go of outside and a cat got it. And not counting the billions of ants I killed with plastic toys.[/SIZE][/B]

[future girl]

I was once sitting outside just thinking and stuff when I see a cat walking across the street very slowly. So then there comes this car going way over the speed limit, especially for a residential area. The cat stops in the middle of the road then and just kind of lays down and the car hits it. It's body went flying in the air as well as the body of several kittens she was about to deliver. It was the most horrible thing I'd ever seen, I cried. The cat didn't even fully die, it was kind of meowing and stuff. Poor kitty and kitty fetuses :(

[demonchild781]

Well, my grandmother's van has been known for hitting poor defensless birds. My grandmother in general has been known for hitting them too. But that's not the point here. I was coming back from the local fair and coming down one of the really big hills. There was no one on either side of me and I was chatting with the other people in the van with me. Suddenly two sparrows dart across me and I hear this sickening thud, I knew I hit one. I slammed on the break, pulled the ran over and run up the street. I had hit one, broke its neck clean. An easy death (if there is such a thing). I felt so bad and its mate kept flying around us. I tossed the small bird into the grass and watched its mate frantically looking for it. I felt so horrible. But what could I do, my grandmother's van is a bird murder.

There was one other time when I was on my way back to my dorm. My boyfriend at the time was driving on the highway. I was kind of looking out the window, even though it was hard to see anything because it was dark. I had this feeling to bring my head around for some reason. My boyfriend was busy watching the signs and that he was going to turn off on the right road. That's when I saw it. There was no way he was going to avoid the poor thing but the words "watch out for the skunk," slipped out of my mouth. The poor thing stopped, fear stricken and looked up into the car. I was sure he was looking directly at me. There was a crunching thud and I closed my eyes. "You hit him..." I whined and my boyfriend couldn't believe it. Then the smell started. I felt so horrible, other than my poor bird murdering, I had never been in a vechile that hit an animal.

[Guest spike123]

my uncle did something like that only it was a turtle

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet]WHo ever mentioned the twitching squirell made me think about what my brother mentioned last night about the time he hit a rabbit.

He said he was driving down Buffalo RD/ Rt 33 which is a rather busy street when he hit a rabbit. He says that he felt this thump so he knew he hit something. Then he looked back and saw this rabbit twitching in the middle of the road trying to get up.

I think it was about 11 years ago but my mom narrowly missed hitting a deer with her mini van. She was driving to Buffalo on 490 when she saw this deer running across the highway. Instead of slowing down, she sped up and the deer ended up going through the back of the van (seriously, the [i]back[/i] of the van. In one end and out the other. Then it ran off into the woods and the DOT called the police to shoot it. The police actually asked my mom if she wanted to keep the antlers. The really sucky part is that we were about to sell the van before the deer went through it so my parents had to trade it in for less than before.

I'm glad it was just a bird though, I'd feel pretty bad if it was some kind of domestic animal.[/color]

[Godelsensei]

[COLOR=Gray][FONT=Courier New]While running in gym class this morning, Iori, PrincessGoneral, and I saw [i]half a pigeon[/i] lying in the middle of the track route.

It was like that scene from Shaun of the Dead, without the zombies, and more feathered.

And I've been seeing alot of dead squirrels lying with their feet in the air, all in one piece, not squished at all, lately.

Something is coming.

o_O[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Tigervx]

[FONT=Arial][COLOR=Teal] Should I be slightly disturbed that you labeled this topic with a grinning face...?

Anyways, I can recall one incident with my bro. He had just picked me up from school and we had gotten some In-N-Out burger. Well, when we where driving home we this mut just leaped right infront of us. My bro floored the break, pratically lunging me out of my site (Remeber kids, wear a seat belt M'kay?) we couldn't see the dog, so we got out. We found the dog like half a foot away from the bumper. It was just completely frozen. We gave it some food (We felt REAL bad for him... Nearly killing him and all >>;;; ) and sent him off on his way, wow, real close call.

I also remeber one time in elementry school when a dead squirrel died on one side of a fence. It was there for like two weeks, everyone went over to look. It was amazing for us... No one was really grossed out believe it or not. But well, when man is the ultimate predator there is no helping some things.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[Charles]

This image I've constructed accurately illustrates my feelings on the subject. It's just amusing when you actually have a tangible representation of the subject matter people are entertaining.

I myself am very sentimental when it comes to harming animals, accidentally or otherwise. Like children, they're in a position of pure innocence, but we're hardly talking about animal abuse here. I certainly don't find any amusement on the subject of running down hapless creatures. So, I can only respond by saying "Hey, what can you do." :shrugs:

[img]http://img19.exs.cx/img19/3226/roadkill.gif[/img]

[Pinewoodpine]

My father( the driver) and I have just ran over a dog on a road this morning.
At least it's still dark (4 in the morning), and my father burried it. At least
we are in the mountains... (Returning from a small one night camping)


I am very afraid of blood and any internal organs as well as brain tissues.
Nearly vomited...

Want to know the color of fresh blood? I can't tell you. It's dark, but it's very smelly though...

[Guest lavalamp]

I understand that accidents happen, but I don't agree with trying to rid yourself of guilt by having people profess their stories of situations similar to your own in this case. The majority of people who kill animals while driving just aren't paying attention, and I'm willing to bet that was the case for you, despite the fact that you claim otherwise. Furthermore, making a thread under the guise of needing help for your [i]stomach-wrenching[/i] emotional distress caused by the incident makes me want to punch you in the face.

Looks to me like a bunch of people trying to be morbid while being completely insensitive to the subject. It's not cool. I'm sure if I ran over your daughter, ChibiHorsewoman, I wouldn't create a topic with a [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/images/icons/icon10.gif[/img] to talk about it.

[Charles]

[QUOTE=lava lamp]I understand that accidents happen, but I don't agree with trying to rid yourself of guilt by having people profess their stories of situations similar to your own in this case. The majority of people who kill animals while driving just aren't paying attention, and I'm willing to bet that was the case for you, despite the fact that you claim otherwise. Furthermore, making a thread under the guise of needing help for your [i]stomach-wrenching[/i] emotional distress caused by the incident makes me want to punch you in the face.

Looks to me like a bunch of people trying to be morbid while being completely insensitive to the subject. It's not cool. I'm sure if I ran over your daughter, ChibiHorsewoman, I wouldn't create a topic with a [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/images/icons/icon10.gif[/img] to talk about it.[/QUOTE]Before people jump all over you, I just want to say that you've pretty much put your finger on exactly what was bothering me. Accidentally hitting an animal is one thing, but making folly of it disturbs me. It's not something I'd go around and brag about as it were.

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet]Can I just say that who ever is making this big deal about running over animals especially the one who mentioned running over my daughter-lighten up. It's not like anyone did this on purpose. For the love of whatever, if it bother's you don't read it

I made this thread because I just wanted to share an experiance. I got over running over the bird already. Stop trying to analyze everything so much. [/color]

[Deedlit]

[color=#009966]I killed 40 insects last year for my biology project.

Ha! I beat you. :p j/k[/color]

[Charles]

[QUOTE=ChibiHorsewoman][color=darkviolet] For the love of whatever, if it bother's you don't read it
[/color][/QUOTE]That would be practical advice had the thread title not been somewhat misleading in the first place. Anyway, I don't want to totally derail this discussion, so yeah. It's good to know that you've recovered from this incident. At least you didn't hit a deer or some other formidable opponent for your vehicle. My brother suffered through an experience like that and the results are both physically and psychologically disasterous.

[lea]

[quote name='Charles'] At least you didn't hit a deer or some other formidable opponent for your vehicle. My brother suffered through an experience like that and the results are both physically and psychologically disasterous.[/quote]


Psychological, especially if you accidently ran over a pet.

[Ben]

[quote name='Charles][I']At least you didn't hit a deer or some other formidable opponent for your vehicle. My brother suffered through an experience like that and the results are both physically and psychologically disasterous.[/I][/quote]

[quote name='lea2385']Psychological, especially if you accidently ran over a pet.[/quote]

I don't know about you, but I don't have a pet deer. :p

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[quote name='Charles'] At least you didn't hit a deer or some other formidable opponent for your vehicle. My brother suffered through an experience like that and the results are both physically and psychologically disasterous.[/quote]

[color=darkviolet]It's such a big problem where i live in NYS that they actually announce on the news the first deer hit of teh season and warn you to watch out for them around November

My mom hit one a few years ago with her van and it causd major damage to the vehicle. Not to mention how it freaked my mom out. She sped up on the highway so teh deer wouldn't go through the front of the van and end up killing her. But it went through the back and messed the whole van up. Never teh less it did freak her out so she didn't end up going to that food show.

While I lived in Texas there was a guy who worked with my husband who hit a deer with his pickup. It screwed up the brush guard pretty bad then he and a friend took it for processing. That's just too messed up even for me.

I guess should appologize for the title of the post, but I couldn't think of a better one.[/color]

[Shugo54]

accidental deaths are different that deaths on purpose. you cant murder an animal you can kill an animal you can torture an animal but you cant murder one. I have hjad thoughts of murdering lots of people but i will never do it because that would be sad. if you accidentally kill someone that is okay because you didn't mean too but if you have intentions of really killing someone then thats what you call a murderer. the columbine shooting was a strong case of murderous intentions. i understand where those kids were coming from i have been picked on every year. i was growing more and more intentions of murder in my head i wanted to kill everyone. but i will never kill someone i am a really emotionally fragile person i really dont want to hate anyone i just want to be happy and acepted as who i am. i wasn't born evil people made me evil but now my evilness is gone (well most of it anyway). I also think that animals shouldn't be killed for fun or for scince they should be left alive because this was their land before the humans changed it.

[Erika]

[size=1][color=purple]GASP! I got it! Just change the thread title to [b]Roadkill.[/b] Who would'a thunk it? o_-

[b][u]What is Amusing About the Subject? Just Bugs In General.[/u][/b]
Personally, I can't help but snicker and snort whenever we get back from a long road trip, and see the front of the car covered in a thin, grisly layer of insect leftovers. One time, I even saw a huge grasshopper halfway smashed into the front of the cartop carrier once we got back from Eastern Oregon. It was more sick than amusing, though. I may sound disgusting, and call me what you liek, but I love the smell of dead skunk. Honest to God. But I still feel a tinge of sadness when I see flattened fur on the road. T_T

[b][u]Dogs Among the Populous.[/u][/b]
I throw the blame almost entirely on their owners. It's so irresponsible, and puts dogs' lives on the line, when they let them run around without being on a leash, or in a fenced yard (not to mention effing annoying). Leashes are there for a reason. And I'd complain to my neighbors of they'd let their damn dogs run around in a yard/neighborhood without a fence or leash on. They can even put 'em on runs, too, if there's space.

[u][b]In all...[/u][/b]
...I understand it when cats are run over, accidentally, etc. because they're independant animals by nature, and don't stay on leashes, etc. (and when I read that post about the pregnant cat, I nearly cried myself; cats are my favorite animal). I blame effing IDIOTS that refuse to slow down for some God-forsaken reason. BUT, dogs are different--all it takes is a stray squirrel and the dog can get itself killed. But I blame the owners, not the dogs' instinct. Although speeding fatheads can be blamed also, the owner shouldn't have allowed the dog to run loose in a residential area to begin with. Most of the dogs around here are only partially supervised, never on leashes, and hardly anyone in our neighborhood has a fenced yard--my mom has to shut our garage's back door so the damn dogs won't get into the garbage...and deprive our 18 year-old cat of all her food and water. >_<+

So if the dog accidentally gets run over, the owners only have themselves to blame.[/color][/size]