LiveJournal Time! - I feel like crap

[Absinthe]

So I made my first confirmed kill with my car.

Was driving at around midnight, getting back from watching my uncle's dog, when a small animal ran in front of me. I don't know what prompts animals to run in front of a pair of headlights going at 55 MPH, but it happened. I tried to swerve around it, but it ran right in front of my left tire and the loud, audible thuds accompanied the car going over it's body.
So I stopped and turned around to see what the **** I hit. I guess it was a possum or something. I had thought it was dead, but no. It was still there, slowly wriggling around in the center of the road when I passed it. I then turned around a second time and this time stopped right next to it. There it was, with its back snapped in two, arching it's head up at the sky, covered in blood, gritting its teeth, straining to get air, with the lights from the car reflecting from it's eyes while it stared at me.

So what did I do? I drove off because I was too much of a pussy to run it over again and put the ****ing thing out of its misery. It's probably dead by now, if not from its own injuries then from another car that finished the deed on purpose or by accident. Man, that must be a shitty way to go out, with the last few minutes of your life spent in wretching agony, unable to do jack shit and left to die in the middle of the road in pitch black.

Hate myself right now.

 

[Geogaddi]

Hate myself right now.

So do we


I hit a squirrel once. It made this terrible skidding/crunching noise. At least it was small and probably died instantly.

 

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[destrukt]

So I made my first confirmed kill with my car.

hahah, that was such a great line.

 

[ktimekiller]

Rofl, congrats?

 

[Absinthe]

I actually didn't find anything funny about it, but okay.

 

[Dog--]

Aww... I read the first line, and thought you killed a human, then posted about it on the internet.

 

[Absinthe]

Thing is, I'm exactly the kind of person who would do that. =\

 

[Glo-Boy]

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[Absinthe]

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This actually freaked the living shit out of me with the drugs I'm on.

 

[Glo-Boy]

Yeah it's kind of jarring but in the end, always makes me laugh.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Phew, I though you'd killed someone. I'm sure tomorrow you'll just sit back and laugh. Well, maybe.

 

[Darkside55]

You probably should have gone back and killed it, but what're you gonna do. Not everyone has the heart to put something out of its misery even when it would be the humane thing to do, so don't beat yourself up about it. If it makes you feel any better, possums are shit.

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I lol'd heartily.

 

[Gorndt]

You probably should have gone back and killed it, but what're you gonna do. Not everyone has the heart to put something out of its misery even when it would be the humane thing to do, so don't beat yourself up about it. If it makes you feel any better, possums are shit.


I lol'd heartily.

I kill everything, just to play it safe... You never know who's miserable and not admitting it.

 

[sinkoman]

This actually freaked the living shit out of me with the drugs I'm on.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?

Uncle 'Cid?

Blotters?

Windowpanes?

Grass?

Mary Jane (Watson)?

Ayahuasca?

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[Solaris]

Don't worry about it, it's an animal.

 

[kirovman]

I suggest getting some "roadkill candy" - it'll calm you down.

 

[The Brick]

Don't worry about it, it's an animal.

I think he'd care less if it was a person he killed.. Poor little thing

 

[Laivasse]

Hmm, you really should have finished it off. Oh well, lesson for the future I guess. If it's any consolation there are probably 10's of 1000's of humans and animals around the world going through similar sorts of agonising pain at this very moment and none of it is because of you :thumbs:

Oh wait D:

 

[kirovman]

If it's any consolation there are probably 10's of 1000's of humans and animals around the world going through similar sorts of agonising pain at this very moment and none of it is because of you :thumbs:

Oh wait D:

That just excuses me to inflict more pain D:

 

[Sparta]

That really sucks dude. I really hate it when animals die. Especially in horrible ways like that. Poor thing. Not much anybody could've done though. Truly sucks.

 

[cherry]

i'm confused by the replies in this thread. absinth, i feel for you, when i was a kid I shot a pidgeon with a catapult, i didn't even think i'd hit it, but i did and then i regretted it. it didn't die straight away, and i nursed it in my room for weeks untill it finally did, i was so sad i cried for days. i was about 6 i think.

why on earth does everyone think this is so funny, i guarantee if you ever do it you'll be sad too, seeing a living thing like that is terrible, and it makers you realise how similar we are to animals, it makes you realise.. i dunno.. that every animal isn't just a pidgeon or a deer or whatever, they really are mortal beings and if one dies it's not just part of a whole lot of them, it's an individual.

this sounds lame but someone might know what i mean.

 

[Potemkin]

I really feel for you. Yesterday one of our cats died suddenly of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is pretty much the the shittiest way imaginable both for the cat and the people around it. The worst night of my life. I don't think I've quite processed it yet. I suppose that one of the... upsides to it is that now I've experienced one of the worst things that can happen, and I feel like I'll be able to handle mostly anything now.

I choose to drive very little, and that's probably one of the contributing factors to why I still haven't hit an animal. Luckily, my family has always stopped to check up on and take care of animals so when that time comes I'll know what to do and I probably won't freak out because I've been in that situation before.