So I saw a seagul die this morningFollow

It made me really sad. It was hit by a bus as it was attempting to fly with it's friends to the park. I heard it scream (in a bird way), flail through the air and hit the floor,try to get up, only to be hit again by the next *******/idiot. I wish people would slow the **** down once in a while. Just an everyday animal but for some reason it really got to me. I hope those ****** people at the very least twist their ankles or catch the flu in the near future. Pay attention, it's not a prop in your pathetic world. It's a living thing.

A kid I knew in high school used to buy dead fish, put dry ice inside them, and throw them into flocks of seagulls just to watch them die.

Pretty sick dude. He was run over by a car though, so perhaps it's karma.
(He didn't die, but it certainly didn't help his mental state any)

I'm starting to feel it's a curse

To be fair, that was a kid from middle school. And when I say "I knew him," that's really it - we were never friends, he was just in my school. He eventually knocked up a girl in my neighborhood and dropped out in high school.

are you sure it wasn't an albatross?

It's funny that you mention that. I got suspended in high school for beating the stuffing out of some kid for throwing rocks at seaguls out in the field. My title isn't Guardian of Cenarius for nothin'

I wouldn't want a human being to die for doing something like that (especially some dumb kid), but I am glad he got what was coming to him. I would however have no problem ending someone who continually abuses animals in their adult life.

Oh well accidents happen, but I still think that a bit of caution and respect for other life could prevent 9/10 wildlife deaths. I even move snails off of my path at home so people don't step on them. Is that crazy?

I once hit a little fox or a possum or something. However, we were on a scary mountain road where swerving meant going off of the edge of a cliff in the middle of the night, so even my vegan friend didn't give a sh*t.

Also, I liked throwing rocks around seagulls. They always thought it was food and would flock around me.

Edited, Mar 28th 2011 11:47am by Sweetums

I once hit a deer driving out of town in the evening. Not going too fast, the impact knocked it into the other lane where it lay there, trying to get back to its feet. I got out to assess the damage, when a car came from the other direction, the driver looked at me checking the crumpled front end of my Monte Carlo...then flat-out ran the deer over as it was lifting its head.

He got out also to see what had happened, and someone came out of the house in front of which this all took place. So the three of us stood there, trying to figure out who gets to take the carcass home for venison.

Climbing to 10k anyway I can.

Edited, Mar 28th 2011 8:00pm by Elinda

My mother hit a duck once, when I was very little. I will never forget looking out the back window of the car and seeing a huge cloud of white feathers in the air behind us.

And somewhere in MN, Nixnot is leaping about and laughing in glee.

Yeah, I live out in the middle of no where, road kill is a fairly common sight around here. The dead stuff ranges from fluffy little squirrels, to birds, to the occasional skunk, which you really want to avoid running over if you can, to fully grown deer. It's not really something to get too upset over unless it does damage to your vehicle. I do try to avoid hitting things when I can, but stuff happens.

I've taken out the occasional possum, which I don't feel to awful about, those things are just freaking ugly. I was also mildly amused when one day a squirrel decided to commit suicide under my tires. I was just driving along and there is this squirrel just sitting along the side of the road doing squirrel stuff. As I get just to point where I'm going to pass the squirrel, out it darts right under my tire. Thump, thump. I couldn't have avoided it if I wanted to.

The most impressive roadkill I've encountered happened to someone driving in front of me. Whoever this person was was driving entirely too slow, so I'm fairly close to them. Not close enough to be dangerous, just close enough to demonstrate my lack of approval for driving entirely too slow. Anyway this annoyingly slow driver was also not a very attentive one, because I saw the deer coming down over the hill with plenty of time to slow down, they didn't. The collision sent a fully grown deer flying end over end at least twenty feet through the air before it landed with a sickeningly wet thud on the pavement in front of a gas station's car wash entrance, where it proceeded to roll over and over for another ten feet or so before coming to a stop. This deer was dead on impact, so was the front of the annoyingly slow driver's car. I suppose I should have stopped to see if the person was alright, but I was already late and the person driving behind me did stop, so it probably all worked out in the end.

Edited, Mar 28th 2011 7:27pm by Turin

Seems like the bird is the one that's the idiot.

Also, probably you as well.

An interesting thread from one named Transmigration.