Would you feel bad?

[Hulkein]

Alright, so I'm at my buddy's aparment in the city, it's kind of shitty, 13 stories or whatever in a poorer section so his whole building has a rodent problem. They bought a blowgun like a week ago and had new darts today so we were practicing on a board and everything just messing around for a while.

Anyway, they have all these mouse traps set up but the same mouse is still there, he literally will practically walk on your shoes but will not fall for the traps, so I'm sitting there at the beerpong table waiting for my team to be up when I see the mouse in the kitchen eating some filth. I pick up the blowgun which was next to me, fire and drill it from like 8 feet away. I wasn't actually expecting to hit it, so it's stuck between the dart and the floor, finally it wiggles out and runs away in pain. I tried to find it to put it out of it's misery but no luck, it's now living with a dart through it's entire body.

I have gone hunting before and shot deer, but for some reason I actually feel bad over this mouse having to sit in it's hole with a dart. Am I being a pussy or what?

[Trinitis]

You shot a mouse? A distant friend of the rat? You BASTARD! :P

[peam]

Hulkein, you son of a bitch..

[Sean]

I'd feel even worse that I just lost one of my friends darts..

[Scott]

Reminds me of my brother. Everyone in my family is a hunter and everything so killing an animal is something that is done every year almost by someone in my family. Well there was a bunny rabbit sitting in the side yard and my brother through a baseball at it and hit it, messed up the bunny real bad. It got away injured but it really ate at my brother. He's shot deer, birds, and my even has killed sa bear. They've all killed a lot but hitting the bunny rabbit and it living through it really ate at him.

[HarmNone]

Umm, maybe if there was not filth lying around in the kitchen the rodent problem would be less noticeable. :D

For the record, I would feel horrible.

HarmNone

[Sean]

I don't know how bad I'd feel knowing that they intended to kill it anyway. Unless those were catch and release traps they were gonna break the little rodents back anyway or poison it. It sucks that it had to suffer, but in the end it was gonna die sometime.

[Snapp]

I would feel horrible too... but then I'd never ever hunt either. I can see how this would bug you more though, because he's suffering so bad.

[HarmNone]

The other thing to think about is that this poor rodent, skewered through with a dart, is going to drag his injured body behind the stove, or the refrigerator, or some other appliance and proceed to die. Then, the poor, dead critter is going to stink to the ends of the universe! :barf:

HarmNone's practical side

[Meos]

Nice shot.

[Mint]

Originally posted by Snapp
I would feel horrible too... but then I'd never ever hunt either. I can see how this would bug you more though, because he's suffering so bad.

The Resident Rodent is trying to make Hulkein feel badly about torturing a mouse. That just cracks me up.

I had a kitten once that would sleep on my pillow. I woke up one morning and had smothered it to death in the night. Maybe that's why I like dogs now. Let the hate mail begin...

[Satira]

Yes I would feel bad and so should you. That poor mouse is walking around with a fucking dart through it's body. That's crap.

At least try to fix what you did. If you can't then move on.

[longshot]

I'd probably feel bad too.

If you would have killed it, you would have been a hero. If you missed, no biggie... it's not like you were expecting to hit it.

It's like the worst thing happened.

The "filth" in the kitchen and the beer pong has college written all over it!

[FinisWolf]

Damn human nature anyway! It's our nature to feel bad if something or someone is suffering. You definetly are not alone in your misery. It's easier to kill something or someone, then it is to just force suffering on them (unless you are into making folks or things suffer), anyway, sorry about your luck, next time use a shotgun... j/k The misery shall pass. Best of luck.

Finiswolf

[Hulkein]

<<Yes I would feel bad and so should you. That poor mouse is walking around with a fucking dart through it's body. That's crap.

At least try to fix what you did. If you can't then move on.>>

I did try to fix it, I moved the stove it ran behind and everything, but it was hidden too well.

<<The "filth" in the kitchen and the beer pong has college written all over it!>>

Heh, you got it.

[GSLeloo]

I'd feel bad. I can't even kill an ant without feeling guilty. It's not their fault that they do things we don't like, they serve a purpose and I feel bad when I kill something just because I don't like it. Especially a rat! i've never killed anything above an ant or a spider or a mosquito and I could never ever kill a mammal. If I had been there, I would've beat you with a stick for doing that.

By the way, as a senior prank the boys let loose 100 mice in our school (50 boys, 50 girls) and I found one and picked it up and refused to give it to the teacher until they swore to me they weren't going to kill it.

[Bobmuhthol]

Hulkein, you are, in fact, being a pussy.

[Hulkein]

Thank you for the honesty Bob :yes: I don't feel bad anymore, it was just for a while shortly after.

[HarmNone]

But, of course! Having empathy for a wounded creature is, most assuredly, being a "pussy". How could any of us have forgotten that? :rolleyes:

HarmNone

[Skirmisher]

You were feeling badly becuase just as in the other example where the person threw the ball at the bunny was not hunting, you were not really trying to kill it as a form of pest control. but instead amusing yourself.

I think its good you felt remorse. I don't think its something that you need to beat yourself up over forever, but if you felt nothing i would be far more concerned.

[Miss X]

Originally posted by Mint
I had a kitten once that would sleep on my pillow. I woke up one morning and had smothered it to death in the night. Maybe that's why I like dogs now. Let the hate mail begin...

Oh God.... I feel evil for laughing out loud at that! I'm sorry, I must be cleansed of my sins! :saint:

[Hulkein]

Well, I did do it because they did want to get rid of it Skirmisher, we were actually talking about the mouse like 20 minutes earlier and how it wouldn't fall for the mouse traps. I didn't do it just for fun, but yes, it was a combination of 'can I do it?' and 'they need/want to get rid of this mouse.'

[HarmNone]

Hulkein, while I feel awful for killing even a spider (and I hate the little buggers), I do not judge those who do not have the same feelings that I do as lacking in any way. However, the fact that you had the decency to feel badly for leaving the poor creature wounded shows you to be a decent human being. :)

HarmNone

[J-Tech]

What did you friends say when you told them about your dead-eye aim?

J.T.

[peam]

Yeah, props for that shot. Some friends and I have fooled around with blowguns before, and while I'm a crack shot with a rifle, I can't hit anything with a blowgun.

I saw a friend of mine actually peg a squirrel. Of course, it ran away, and it was a shitty thing to do, but it was hilarious when I was 15. If it remedies the situation any, the same friend shot himself in the thumb, while trying to take out a beetle.

[Hulkein]

The kid who was on my team watched me do it and then I was like 'holy shit I actually hit it' and more people ran in and saw it.. We then started to go over to put it out of its misery when it got freed from the floor and ran off. Now the kids who live there gotta find it (it lives under the stove in a little hole we think) before it stinks like hell. Everyone was pretty stunned that I hit it including myself.

[Edited on 3-20-2004 by Hulkein]

[J-Tech]

I use to own a blow gun, i don't know what happend to it, i got it when i got my authentic ninja outfit too, with the whole face mask, cool toed shoes and what not, i was in fourth grade, don't try and clow, i'll side kick your ass.

J.T.

[peam]

Should they not be able to locate it in time, I guarantee the smell will provide more than an adequate system of location.

We had squirrels in our ceilings once, back home, and Dad insisted on poisoning them. That was pleasant. Squirrels are wiley hiders.