FFS, just hit the dog, not me!

[SeerSGB]

Coming back home around lunch-time today, pouring rain, barely any visibility, and slogging threw high water and trying to keep from slidding into the ditch, turn on the narrow bit of two lane that leads into the valley and find the situation worse-- water's higher, some ditch lines and creeks have topped and the county is shutting down some side roads. Round the blind curve about a mile from our place, just in time to see some idiot swing into my lane to dodge a stray dog, and set us up for a head on collision; I'm doing about 30, he's going easily 10 or more MPH more than me, he's not even looking at me, he's looking over his shoulder and he's not slowing down. I slam on the brakes, hit the horn, and angle for the ditch; no other options it's ditch, other lane on a blind curve in shit weather, or just take the hit head on; better the ditch than a double header on a bline curve. He jerks his car at the last minute, locks it up, and starts sliding, misses me by literal inches-- I could have sworn for a moment that we had grazed each other. Finally he comes to a stop a few feet from me, side ways and cross both lanes.

I sit there was a minute thanking whatever divine is out there; before going into a cussing fit that'd normally make even me say "Tone it down dude." I look up in the mirror, he's outside his car and on his cellphone. I roll down the window and ask if he's okay, and he shouts back "Yeah, I just didn't want to hit the dog." I just sit there, speechless and pissed enough to want to go feed him to that damn dog, he gets in his car after a couple of minutes and speeds (yes speeds) off.

What the fuck man?! Ever heard of fucking brakes?

I love animals, especially dogs and cats, but I'd sooner hit one than risk someone's life in bad weather on a blind curve.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Well I consider an animals life to be equal to that of a Human, so as far as i'm concerned he did right to try and avoid hitting the Dog.

 

[Kirk-Fu]

I care more about animals than humans. They're innocent. If I was driving and had to choose between hitting a dog/cat or a human I'll hit the human.

 

[Pingfah]

And hopefully you would go to jail for a long time for manslaughter.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

And hopefully you would go to jail for a long time for manslaughter.

better that than Dogslaughter.

 

[Pingfah]

Well, according to this post the guy is either a liar, a cannibal or a hypocrite.

Realistically you gotta plump for 1 or 3.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Well, according to this post the guy is either a liar, a cannibal or a hypocrite.

Realistically you gotta plump for 1 or 3.

Yes, after reading that thread and also his post above, Kirk-Fu needs to explain why it is OK for him to eat chicken if he cares more about animals than humans.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Well, according to this post the guy is either a liar, a cannibal or a hypocrite.

Realistically you gotta plump for 1 or 3.

Yes, after reading that thread and also his post above, Kirk-Fu needs to explain why it is OK for him to eat chicken if he cares more about animals than humans.

He can't fight 'The Hunger'.

 

[Deckerd]

I care more about animals than humans. They're innocent. If I was driving and had to choose between hitting a dog/cat or a human I'll hit the human.

You need help.

 

[Deckerd]

And hopefully you would go to jail for a long time for manslaughter.

better that than Dogslaughter.

Dogs don't laugh

 

[All Seeing Eye]

And hopefully you would go to jail for a long time for manslaughter.

better that than Dogslaughter.

Dogs don't laugh

Yes they do, it just doesn't sound the same as Human laughter, for obvious reasons.

(and yes, I got the joke)

 

[Captain X]

Dogs, cats, et. al. provide companionship, and some of them can help handicapped people out, but a dog is not going to give you CPR or perform brain surgery, or design a bridge, or even fry you a burger. In other words, they do not contribute to society much. Not to mention they are no where near as intelligent as humans. So humans are much more valuable than animals of any kind. You can argue otherwise until you're blue in the face, but that won't make it any more true than if I said I had a naked Jolene Blalock sitting in my lap right now would make that true.

I don't know what fucked up mentality would place animals on par with humans, let alone somehow more valuable than humans. If you really think that, I suppose we can go find a pack of wolves to feed you to.

I really loved my dog, and I miss her greatly, but I would've killed her if it meant saving a human being all the same.

 

[SeerSGB]

What really hit me most about it was the fact that we have school buses that run up and down the road three times a day. In this weather, and that fucktard's line of thought, would he have pile drived into a bus full of kids to save a dog?

 

[Kirk-Fu]

I should have said pets not animals. I've never had a chicken as a pet. And for anyone who said I'm sick? Go fuck yourselves.

 

[Pingfah]

I'm sure they'll be devastated.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I should have said pets not animals. I've never had a chicken as a pet. And for anyone who said I'm sick? Go fuck yourselves.

What about goldfish? Have you kept those as pets and if so do you like them better than people?

We had chickens as pets when I was a child. Well, my parents kept them for the eggs they laid but us kids would play with them. My sister liked to hypnotise them.

Despite that I still eat chicken.

 

[SPOCKED]

I should have said pets not animals. I've never had a chicken as a pet. And for anyone who said I'm sick? Go fuck yourselves.

So we've just taken a bad turn down a rocky road.
Keep your bad thoughts in check from here, mkay?

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

I should have said pets not animals. I've never had a chicken as a pet. And for anyone who said I'm sick? Go fuck yourselves.

so if you had to choose between a family member and your dog, you'd choose your dog??

I'm assuming your answer is no.

so is it just people you don't know that you would choose pets over? it seems pretty hypocritical that you would choose a dog that you don't know over a human that you don't know, since in the OP the dog is completely random, yet you'll choose people that you do know over pets that you know

think about it

 

[Captain X]

I should have said pets not animals. I've never had a chicken as a pet. And for anyone who said I'm sick? Go fuck yourselves.

I would, but my dick won't bend that way.

 

[hellsgate]

Dogs, cats, et. al. provide companionship, and some of them can help handicapped people out, but a dog is not going to give you CPR or perform brain surgery, or design a bridge, or even fry you a burger. In other words, they do not contribute to society much. Not to mention they are no where near as intelligent as humans. So humans are much more valuable than animals of any kind. You can argue otherwise until you're blue in the face, but that won't make it any more true than if I said I had a naked Jolene Blalock sitting in my lap right now would make that true.

I don't know what fucked up mentality would place animals on par with humans, let alone somehow more valuable than humans. If you really think that, I suppose we can go find a pack of wolves to feed you to.

I really loved my dog, and I miss her greatly, but I would've killed her if it meant saving a human being all the same.

Actually, that's not ENTIRELY true. There are some animals (beyond the expected police / fire fighters' dogs, armed forces' new bomb-sniffers, & seeing eye dogs,) that are being tested for the ability to sniff out cancer cells & even detect epileptic seizures before they happen in some labs to be able to warn someone that some seriously uncool shit is about to happen to his/her owner.