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Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:04 am

Black Magic Putin Wrote:

shiv Wrote:

I ran over a cat today on the street I live on. It just darted out in front of my car and I really didn't have time to stop. I saw it in my rear view mirror trying to get to the side of the street. I parked and went back and a few people were around and we tried to call the number on the tag but it was a wrong number. It didn't really last long after that so we called animal control and they said they'd sent someone to pick it up. Everyone else that was around left so I was just going to stay with it til animal control got there but then some lady was walking by and said she knew whose cat it was so we went to their door and told them about it. I apologized probably 5 or 6 times but the girl told me it was alright and thanked me for stopping and telling her. I feel fucking awful. Gave my cats a couple of extra hugs when I got home.

i wish this would happen to me. not the running over, but someone coming to the door to tell me that my cat was finally dead. this fucker is going to live forever.

Fuck, man. That's really awful. And it's why I never used to let my cats outside. Didn't want to have that conversation.

FT · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:42 am

shiv Wrote:

I ran over a cat today on the street I live on. It just darted out in front of my car and I really didn't have time to stop. I saw it in my rear view mirror trying to get to the side of the street. I parked and went back and a few people were around and we tried to call the number on the tag but it was a wrong number. It didn't really last long after that so we called animal control and they said they'd sent someone to pick it up. Everyone else that was around left so I was just going to stay with it til animal control got there but then some lady was walking by and said she knew whose cat it was so we went to their door and told them about it. I apologized probably 5 or 6 times but the girl told me it was alright and thanked me for stopping and telling her. I feel fucking awful. Gave my cats a couple of extra hugs when I got home.

that sucks, man - sorry you had to go through that

toots · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:43 am

very big of you to stop. assholes around here would just keep on driving.

shiv · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:52 am

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

Black Magic Putin Wrote:

shiv Wrote:

I ran over a cat today on the street I live on. It just darted out in front of my car and I really didn't have time to stop. I saw it in my rear view mirror trying to get to the side of the street. I parked and went back and a few people were around and we tried to call the number on the tag but it was a wrong number. It didn't really last long after that so we called animal control and they said they'd sent someone to pick it up. Everyone else that was around left so I was just going to stay with it til animal control got there but then some lady was walking by and said she knew whose cat it was so we went to their door and told them about it. I apologized probably 5 or 6 times but the girl told me it was alright and thanked me for stopping and telling her. I feel fucking awful. Gave my cats a couple of extra hugs when I got home.

i wish this would happen to me. not the running over, but someone coming to the door to tell me that my cat was finally dead. this fucker is going to live forever.

Fuck, man. That's really awful. And it's why I never used to let my cats outside. Didn't want to have that conversation.

Yeah the girlfriend lets the cats out all the time. Our street is pretty busy too. She had one in the backyard with a leash on but not tied up to anything. I yelled at her a lil bit for that.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:25 am

The leash thing would scare me. My mom had a cat that got its neck stuck in a chair back - the vertical slats were spaced wider at the top and narrower at the bottom - and it slid down, got stuck, and died. I could see a cat jumping over something, the leash getting stuck, and that would be that.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:46 am

Try not to feel too bad about it. Sounds like you did everything you possibly could.

I remember when I was a kid, my mom accidentally ran over my grandmother's cat. It was pretty traumatic for everybody, and she felt really terrible. It really wasn't her fault at all, though. These things just happen sometimes.

Dalen · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:16 pm

shiv Wrote:

Gave my cats a couple of extra hugs when I got home.

sissy

wenchlette · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:28 pm

I hit a dog when I was in high school. It's awful.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:38 pm

on a lighter note:

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:41 pm

(While we're runnin over shit) I managed to run over a fucking tiny brown bird on the motorcycle last weekend. Was taking a left at a light, banked over on my side, and here's this little finch thingy, sitting on the road munching on something. Those things ALWAYS move, they always get out of the way. And when you're turning on a bike you can't just grab the brakes or change lines quickly, you'll dump the bike or run wide and hit something. So I stayed put, and got closer and closer and then -pdump pdump- ran right the fuck over it, somehow. Bike tires are so tight, they're made to communicate what's going on on the ground right up through the handle bars, so I felt every bit of it, which sucked. My contact patch is like an inch wide, and that bird was about 2 inches wide. Fucker was just very, very unlucky.

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:32 pm

Pretty sure I've killed an animal or two when they ran out in front of me. I've repressed the memories of hearing their dying howls and screeches.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:57 pm

Around February I was driving to work and a dachsund ran out in front of me just as I was rounding a curve with someone right behind me driving close. I couldn't brake or swerve, and ended up running right over the pup. That was the easy part. Hard part, the dog belonged to a girl who was in one of my classes and she was standing right there waiting on the bus when I ran over her dog. Needless to say, the two of us had a pretty good weeping session in the hall when she came to my class that day.

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:49 pm

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

Around February I was driving to work and a dachsund ran out in front of me just as I was rounding a curve with someone right behind me driving close. I couldn't brake or swerve, and ended up running right over the pup. That was the easy part. Hard part, the dog belonged to a girl who was in one of my classes and she was standing right there waiting on the bus when I ran over her dog. Needless to say, the two of us had a pretty good weeping session in the hall when she came to my class that day.

You did the world a service, but I hate it that the little girl was sad. Hopefully she got a better puppy out of it. Dachsunds are the fucking worst.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:08 am

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

(While we're runnin over shit) I managed to run over a fucking tiny brown bird on the motorcycle last weekend. Was taking a left at a light, banked over on my side, and here's this little finch thingy, sitting on the road munching on something. Those things ALWAYS move, they always get out of the way.

Can't believe I beat Bob on this.

Quote:

George Costanza: I don't get these birds; they're breakin' the deal! It's like the pigeons decided to ignore me.
Jerry Seinfeld: So they're like everyone else.

Quote:

George Costanza: Miranda thinks I'm a butcher, but - it's not my fault, is it? Don't we have a deal with the pigeons?
Jerry Seinfeld: Of course we have a deal: They get out of the way of our cars; we look the other way on the statue defecations.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

My cat that was gone for a few weeks and presumed dead came back. The wheel of cat karma.

shiv · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:30 am

i'm kinda thinking about getting at least some flowers and apologizing again to the girl. good idea or not?

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:04 am

PopTodd Wrote:

Maybe I'll find my respect for him again. After watching It Might Get Loud, I lost a lot of it. He came off as kind of a pretentious wannabe prick. Maybe he was just intimidated.
(Although there is a scene toward the end, where Jimmy Page starts playing the riff to "Whole Lotta Love", and JW's face lights up like a kid on Christmas which IS pretty endearing.)

I thought he was the coolest guy in that movie by a factor of a million. Jimmy Page made me sad (not really, he's just really washed up)

nobody · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:26 am

shiv Wrote:

i'm kinda thinking about getting at least some flowers and apologizing again to the girl. good idea or not?

That would be sweet, but you're not getting anywhere with that. You killed her cat, game over, move on.

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

shiv Wrote:

I ran over a cat today on the street I live on. It just darted out in front of my car and I really didn't have time to stop. I saw it in my rear view mirror trying to get to the side of the street. I parked and went back and a few people were around and we tried to call the number on the tag but it was a wrong number. It didn't really last long after that so we called animal control and they said they'd sent someone to pick it up. Everyone else that was around left so I was just going to stay with it til animal control got there but then some lady was walking by and said she knew whose cat it was so we went to their door and told them about it. I apologized probably 5 or 6 times but the girl told me it was alright and thanked me for stopping and telling her. I feel fucking awful. Gave my cats a couple of extra hugs when I got home.

There was a fox run over on the road just in front of my train station a couple of months back. It was just lying partly in the gutter, partly across the road with one of its back legs almost torn off.

No one picked it up or moved it and over the coming days and weeks it got pretty gruesome as it festered in the sun and was repeatedly run over.

I don't find going to work an especially pleasant experience at the best of times but seeing this gory, eyeless, fanged monstrosity splattered all over the place made things even worse, especially since I'd have an awareness that I would be confronted by it in a slightly more grisly condition every day, immediately before it actually came into view.

It's gone now thank heavens, I'm not sure if someone eventually cleaned it up or if flies ate it all.

Stone · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 am **Posts:** 1562

I agree with DW. You stopped and showed your concern for accidentally hitting the cat. Time to move on.

Coincidentally, I hit a squirrel last night. I swerved to miss him, and he ran back under my tire. The hardest part for me was explaining to my 5 year old daughter what the sound was. Luckily, I don't think she understood that it was curtains for the squirrel.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:05 am

Pretty sure I'm going to teach my kids that killing squirrels is fine. Other animals, not so much, but kill all the squirrels you can.

I tend to swerve or brake to avoid hitting them just as a reflex, but I always sort of regret it. I hope my kids can be better squirrel-killers than I am.

The only animal I've ever run over (as far as I know) was a possum.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:16 am

Drinky Wrote:

Pretty sure I'm going to teach my kids that killing squirrels is fine. Other animals, not so much, but kill all the squirrels you can.

I tend to swerve or brake to avoid hitting them just as a reflex, but I always sort of regret it. I hope my kids can be better squirrel-killers than I am.

The only animal I've ever run over (as far as I know) was a possum.

He wasn't dead, y'know?

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:15 am

There aren't any buzzards in Scotland, apparently.

FT · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:56 am

Yail Bloor Wrote:

PopTodd Wrote:

Maybe I'll find my respect for him again. After watching It Might Get Loud, I lost a lot of it. He came off as kind of a pretentious wannabe prick. Maybe he was just intimidated.
(Although there is a scene toward the end, where Jimmy Page starts playing the riff to "Whole Lotta Love", and JW's face lights up like a kid on Christmas which IS pretty endearing.)

I thought he was the coolest guy in that movie by a factor of a million. Jimmy Page made me sad (not really, he's just really washed up)

I thought it was an interesting coincidence that right after reading Todd's post, I heard the "Vesco Island" episode featuring Chad's proclamation that Jack White is one of the biggest assholes in music.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:01 pm

http://vimeo.com/44715155

:30 second preview of new KISS song. I dig KISS, but they need to hang it up.

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