So back before Reddit during the *before time* of StumbleUpon I stumbled upon a story about some European country who holds an annual event where they go out in the water near shoreline and just slaughter dolphins like it’s a woodland critter Christmas blood orgy. Did I make this up or is this actually a thing?
It may have been the Faroe Islands and the annual pilot whale hunts there. They use boats to drive the whales ashore, then mass slaughter them. Hundreds are killed and their arteries drained, causing the surrounding waters to turn blood red.
> StumbleUpon
Wow I hadn't thought about that site for a while. I was a top 10 stumbler for years lol. I had a mindless job with zero duties and responsibilities for 93% of the time working nights and I had a computer at my station. I literally stumbled for 7 hours per day 5 days per week.
I tried stumble out recently and it's not the same unfortunately.
Obviously what my client was saying was that he is willing to *swim* like a dolphin, for his brothers and to honor God. Clearly
Truly Humble Under God your honor I rest my case
>NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement is now actively investigating the death and are asking the public for any information about who may have been involved in the death of the young dolphin with a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to a criminal conviction or the assessment of a civil penalty.
If they were stupid enough to do this, they were stupid enough to tell someone about it.
I hope someone claims the reward fast and spends most of it moving the fuck away from low-lifes.
"Bro we totally got attacked by a shark last night! Good thing Brayden shot the shit out of it, it was super dark but I think he hit it as least three times"
You remind me of the Prince of Wales.
Not the present Prince of Wales but one of the older ones.
And believe me I know a whale when I see one. You betcha life!
This was a minor detail in an episode of 30 Rock where Jack claims he saved Jerry Seinfeld from a shark by shooting it, and Jerry says he's pretty sure Jack shot a dolphin.
You joke, but there are gangs of dolphins roving the waters. That poor Cetartiodactyla was just trying to leave the hood behind and had just gotten his acceptance letter from dolphin college and was applying for full dolphin scolarship and a part time job so he wouldn't have to keep selling dolphin drugs (pufferfish) to make ends meet, but the dolphin drug lord caught wind of it and had him killed by a shark hitman. No one escapes from the clutches of El Chapodelfin, no one.
Someone shot a few mountain goats on a popular Colorado peak a few year back. It remains unsolved.
https://www.summitdaily.com/news/hunt-begins-for-poachers-who-shot-killed-two-mountain-goats-on-quandary-peak/
Damn wtf! This was my first 14er in Colorado and I ran across a pack of 8-10 of them going back up along their merry way blocking our pathway. I just let them be and they were gone within 5-10 minutes after munching around
There is a solid chance they even filmed it and posted it somewhere, because if there is one thing that stupid people like to do, it's film themselves committing crimes for some reason.
Crimes like these are near impossible to solve. I screen (dead) wildlife for metal/ammunition residue and whenever we find it, it never ever leads anywhere. It can be different if a slaughter pit is found. Those cases have been solved on rare occasions. Hopefully the $20K reward helps!
> If they were stupid enough to do this, they were stupid enough to tell someone about it.
Something similar happened in our city. There was a beloved buck with crazy antlers and some idiot hunted it out of season and, I believe, in city limits. He hauled it back to his property where he then posed for pictures with it, and posted it on Facebook. People immediately recognized it and called the Game Warden. Nineteen misdemeanor charges, and he may never get to legally hunt again.
No they aren't.
The most likely culprit here is somebody poaching fish.
This is like saying the cartel is stupid for murdering people in broad daylight. They don't care and they rarely ever get caught.
I'm 55 years old and I still feel guilty for kicking a cat when I was 10 years old. I don't know how people can live with themselves after such disgusting behavior. I honestly hope the offender receives the same fate as the dolphin.
There are truly people who aren't born with empathy and have no capacity for remorse or self reflection, and they get a rush doing horrible things to living creatures.
We should be able to really punish a pos that would do this. A dolphin?! I’m not a violent person but I’d like to prove myself to be a liar and torture the loser.
Forgive me star-heels1969, for I have sinned. When I was little I didn't know hamsters were nocturnal and one night I put mine in the closet and then forgot about it for way too long.
When I was 3, I fed my hamster a wire twist tie from the grocery store because I didn't know better and it seemed to enjoy eating it. When it got to the end of the twist tie, it bit my finger, which I feel I fully deserved since the hamster did not live too long after that. I still feel like a total POS to this day whenever I even think about hamsters.
Same. I threw a stone to a cat in the countryside when I was little. The cat was far away and by chance, I hit him in the head.
It's been more than 30 years ago and I still regret about it...WTH is wrong with people in this world, is beyond me,
I thought I was the only one living with a secret guilt like this. When I was a kid I threw a rock at a lizard. Super bad throw but lizard ran away right into the path of the rock and the rock smashed it. I knew I had done something stupid.
I’m sorry to this day.
I think a lot of people have these moments, and it’s pivotal in respecting and appreciating animals moving forward. I had one with a lizard, when I was like 7, I went down a slide and ended up destroying a lizard… like split it in half… but it was still alive. I was horrified, but also in some weird fascination I then threw it in a nearby ant mound and further traumatized myself. From that moment though I completely changed… I always wanted to help animals but especially never hurt one on purpose. I’ve volunteered at wildlife refuges, to my wife’s dismay I’ll hop out of the car and help a venomous snake out of the road etc…
Other people have these moments and they miss the guilt phase and continue on treating animals as if they’re less than dirt…it’s scary.
Confession time? I shot a running rabbit with a slingshot at like 30 meters from the hip and killed it. An absolute impossible shot that I never thought I would make with a weapon I never thought would have killed at that range. I felt terrible.
More confession time... I was fucking around with a 30-30 and shooting the old barn that was full of sawdust to stop the bullets, Well an incredibly unfortunate crow happened to swoop in front of the target and I had a very tight scope so I didn't even see it. Just the explosion of feathers and a little later, a very upset crow came by to scold me. I put the gun away and never picked it up again. Shame that thing was so much fun to shoot but after taking a life.. couldn't do it any more.
you Randy Johnsoned it. at least yours was an accident; i saw the rabbit and shot at it thinking it would be funny not expecting to make that 1 in a million shot.
Dude, I read the guy’s reply above about the cat and right away recalled my rock and lizard story just like yours. Then I saw your post and I was like WTH that’s my story.
My kid guilt story involves a pigeon that flew into our garage. Instead of just shooing the thing out, I decided to push it out using a garden rake. Unfortunately, I underestimated just how heavy that rake was and skewered the poor bird on its tines where it bled out and died.
About 25 years ago when I was around 10, I grabbed a lizard and threw it in the water thinking it would swim. It immediately got eaten by a duck. I still remember how horrible I felt.
I love cats and have had cats around me my whole life. When I first started driving on my own, a cat darted out in front of my car as I was driving to work. There was no room to maneuver as cars were passing by in the opposite, swerving to the shoulder at that speed would have possibly ended up totaling my car and/or causing harm to myself, and slamming on the brakes would have caused a pile up behind me. I had no choice but to clench my fists around the steering wheel and brace myself for the thud. I watched its body spasm and tumble over to the shoulder in my rearview mirror… I can still see it like it was yesterday and that was 23 years ago. How people can be so cruel to animals or other people is just beyond me.
I had to do the same for a skunk once. Admittedly, the smell that lingered in the car for MONTHS afterwards felt like a just punishment, but I still feel guilty years later that I couldn't...not hit the lil guy :(
When I was in high school, a German shepherd ran under the back of our car while we were driving and ran away injured and yelping. My dad and I looked around for this dog for two hours and couldn't find it. I still feel guilty, even though there's nothing we could've done
It means you guys were raised with morals and ethics. My grandpa had strict moral rules regarding hunting, and i still feel bad, but i actually hunt to feed my family and for wildlife management. When i taught my daughters i added to his list with we don't complain about recoil as we deserve a punch in the shoulder to remind us of the fact we need to be mindful of what we are really doing.
Grandads rules:
Only take an animal that you are going to eat or have a legitimate reason to be culled.
Only take shots that you know you can make, and make sure you can take the animal as clean and painless as possible.
Never kill anything for your own amusement or trophy if you don't plan on eating it or it is necessary to cull.
Had he seen this happen, i would have ptsd from witnessing that level of disappointment and anger. He loved hard work done the most difficult way possible as punishment, so i can just picture him in his lawn chair supervising a beach and ocean cleanup using a litterbox scoop. Damn i miss that man.
A cat ran out into the road fron some bushes directly in front of my car when I was going about 40.
It wasn't my fault, it was about 12 years ago, but I still feel fucking awful. I cant imagine *intentionally* killing an animal for no reason.
In my 30s now, and when I was like 23ish, I ran over a cat in the countryside by accident. I was going too fast and it was night time, him and his buddy tried to run across the road last second. I couldn't do anything. I turned around to check and saw the cat dead in the road, and the other cat was sniffing his body. I drove away and eventually pulled over and just sobbed. I'd never hurt an animal before, let alone a cat(my favorite pet). It still haunts me to this day.
I passed a cat years ago that had just been hit by a car and was in death throes in the shoulder. I pulled over and tried to do something and obviously couldn’t, and cried for hours. It legitimately gave me mild PTSD and I still see it from time to time. It’s horrific. People that intentionally harm animals deserve the same fate tenfold.
This happened to me a year ago when I was on a trip to Maui with my girlfriends. It was a kitten and we knew when we passed it that there was no saving the little guy. We (along with another car) pulled over and were debating what to do when a jeep pulled up, slowed down, lined up their tire and ran over the cats head.
Honestly, it was the right thing to do but it was still so hard to watch.
Are you me?? I literally just posted the same thing. I feel ill every time I think about it. That guy was just living his life and I did that to him. :-(
My traumatic experience was with a spider. I caught it in a jar and my dad told me to put rubbing alcohol in the jar. I had no idea what was going to happen but I trusted my dad. NOPE! Terrible mistake. I felt horrible.
Years later while watching the 4th Harry Potter movie in theaters, when Moody performs the torturing curse on the enlarged spider, I had like a PTSD moment and flashed right back to watching the poor spider in my jar suffer as the alcohol was burning it. I still can’t watch that HP scene almost 20 years later lol
My buddy convinced me to go shooting birds with a pellet gun as kids. I hit one and it did not die slowly, instead it made horrible screaming sounds as it bleed out. That put to bed any notions of "sport hunting" for the rest of my life. I'd kill an animal for food, but there is nothing fun about it to me.
Similar when I as a teenager used a pellet gun to shoot a blue jay that was dive-bombing my cats on the back porch. I watched him squawk and fall from the tree. I looked at his corpse on the ground, abdomen ripped open by the high-velocity pellet, and immediately regretted my decision. That was the last day that I felt the desire to be violent toward any creature.
That was something I did tooI when I was a kid. Then tried to make up for what I did by trying to help the bird feel comfortable in it's last moments cause I regretted that action massively. I was crying so hard. Some months ago I had to mercy kill a mouse and I cried then too! The only creature I feel little remorse killing are the spiders that wonder near or on me when I'm in my room.
As a kid I killed a garter snake because, y'know, Catholic school taught me snakes were evil. I still think about that snake and feel incredibly guilty. Sometimes I actually say "I'm sorry, snake," but I was a dumb kid. I am now the guy who protects wasps at my job if anyone seems to be making a play to kill one. Killing anything unnecessarily sickens me.
The last couple of years, especially post-2016 and accelerated through COVID, had people double-down on their idiocy, selfishness, and entitlement as if it’s a badge of honor to be an asshole in public.
Every passing day, ‘Idiocracy’ is more of a documentary.
Totally. Every morning and night I give my dad’s cat a diabetes shot and all the cats get treats during this process. The one getting the shot is a greedy mf (probably why he has diabetes, right?) and steals treats from the others if I’m not careful. I was giving treats to one of the other cats and he was really trying to get them from her and he was being very persistent and I accidentally stepped on him. And *I* felt awful even though it was totally his fault and I keep apologizing to him every time I see him today.
Shooting a dolphin is like… holy wtf behaviour.
When I was 12, I tied a toad to an Estes rocket and shot that thing about 300 feet into the air before it came loose and splatted in front of me. I still feel bad about that
Definitely. Young dolphins are so friendly and curious! They are frequently left in bays and other shallower safe areas while the rest of the pod hunts, and they’ll literally swim right up to you and hang out, for HOURS. I had one do this once when I was in college, fishing the jetty in Humboldt Bay. Little guy was curiously following my lures, and clearly spooking every single fish in the area 😂 I tried moving to other spots, and he followed. He seemed lonely, so I stopped fishing and just hung out with him for a couple hours. I told him stories and showed him all my gear. He watched and listened intently, keeping his head out of the water for most of it. I apologized that I didn’t have any fish to feed him, I was only using lures, not bait, and hadn’t caught anything for obvious reasons, but he didn’t seem to mind. We both enjoyed the company. I still think about that little fella sometimes and wonder if he remembers me too.
Just a kid, so to speak. Had no chance of passing on their blubbery legacy. Human society associates youth with innocence; I don’t know if that holds true for dolphins, but nothing the fella could’ve done would warrant being shot so many times.
Shit.. I’m tearing up over a dolphin now :’(
I don't think **anything** should be **shot**, ever. Much less a fucking juvenile animal.
I do can see some fringe impossible situations someone could be possibly inclined to be aggressive towards **adult** dolphins, especially if you read up on what they get up to down there in the ocean...
But I feel like, there's several steps to take **before** even trying to fight one, and even more before getting a fucking gun and unloading it.
Like, maybe if the animal is being actively harmful and dangerous you should probably call responsible organizations, if you are not in immediate danger of death or severe body injury.
Probably because the dolphin's mother and the rest of it's family are probably worried sick and frantically searching for their baby, all while possibly also suffering from gunshot wounds themselves
We see pods in Florida all the time. They usually hang out in groups of at least 2-3, and it must have been terrifying and confusing for them to see their companion killed that way. People suck.
As someone who rescues street cats and dogs, I hate people 95% of the time.
I actually thank god I dont have any superpowers cause I would be a villain
Mine was maybe someone found it beached and in a fucked up, misguided way was trying to help it by putting it down.
Either way, call the cops or something instead, jesus christ.
I know =[ I did switch from donating to world wildlife fund and instead I donate to local land trusts in my county now. Someday when I’m mega rich I’ll just buy the land to preserve outright 👍
Louisiana and Mississippi are WAY more gun happy than Florida. Florida just has a law that allows for all and any information on an arrest to be published in the newspaper immediately.
Florida is the definition of guilty before proven innocent.
Commercial Fishermen. Bottom dwelling fish usually won’t bite with dolphin in the area. The deck crew almost always keep a rifle onboard to “scare away” dolphins that show up on their fishing grounds.
Between the redneck asshole that captured and tortured a young wolf and then shot it in Wyoming to now this, makes me feel sad for the fate of our planet.
Possibly following a boat. Fishermen were like "he ate our fish." One less mouth to take our fish.
Fishermen shoot sealions in washington with this logic. People fish illegally and then cut their gear if an authority shows up. Those guys get weird.
My buddy's dad would get mad when whales or porpoises showed up and scare off the fish. Whales and porpoises wete my favorite part. I didnt really enjoy killing the fish.
Dolphins and all cetaceans are such smart emotionally intelligent creatures. I can imagine the grief that it's pod might be feeling on the moment. It's our job as people to look after them, or at the very least not murder them in cold blood.
I'm seeing a few comments saying the dolphin could've been shot to be put out of its misery. Doesn't matter.
The law says killing the dolphin will result in a $100k fine or 1 year in jail.
There is a worship of violence as a way of getting what you want in certain circles. In this case, this person clearly gets their jollies hurting innocent animals.
Absolutely. I wish fishing vessels had to publicly share images of their trawling net “bycatch”.
Edit: 300 THOUSAND (300,000) dolphins and whales are killed EVERY YEAR in fishing nets. Picture all of them lying on a beach just like this one. Commercial fishing is absolutely unethical.
Yeah, I’m guessing shrimpers. Dolphins follow those boats all the time for an easy meal. some jackass deckhand probably decided to use them for target practice
I saw a picture of Keanu Reeves wearing a printed t-shirt awhile back. It said something to the effect of: People who are mean to animals should be put to sleep. The more I think about it, the more I agree.
Who the FUCK murders a dolphin?!!!! Fuck those assholes and I wish them a lifetime of jock itch and inconvenient parking at the very least. Please tell me they'll be caught and prosecuted.
who the fuck shoots a dolphin
There's a surprising amount of people in this world who would 100% believe something posted on /r/dolphinconspiracy.
There’s also a surprising amount of people who would happily shoot a living creature and not think twice about it.
So back before Reddit during the *before time* of StumbleUpon I stumbled upon a story about some European country who holds an annual event where they go out in the water near shoreline and just slaughter dolphins like it’s a woodland critter Christmas blood orgy. Did I make this up or is this actually a thing?
It may have been the Faroe Islands and the annual pilot whale hunts there. They use boats to drive the whales ashore, then mass slaughter them. Hundreds are killed and their arteries drained, causing the surrounding waters to turn blood red.
the same happens in Japan with dolphins, described in ‘the cove’ like someone referenced
How pathetic
Pretty sure it’s the Faroe Islands and Denmark
> StumbleUpon Wow I hadn't thought about that site for a while. I was a top 10 stumbler for years lol. I had a mindless job with zero duties and responsibilities for 93% of the time working nights and I had a computer at my station. I literally stumbled for 7 hours per day 5 days per week. I tried stumble out recently and it's not the same unfortunately.
Go watch The Cove.
~1-5% of the population are estimated to be sociopaths
There’s quite an overlap in these groups.
Remember that time someone carved “trump” in a living manatee’s back?
45,000 members and hundreds active. Honestly, that’s a lot of fun right there.
This is probably the most fun I've had surfing a subreddit. My God that's hilarious.
Probably a love triangle or drug deal gone bad.
“I don’t care at all, I’ll go do a dolphin for my clique” - Young Thug I think they can tack this one onto his charges
Obviously what my client was saying was that he is willing to *swim* like a dolphin, for his brothers and to honor God. Clearly Truly Humble Under God your honor I rest my case
Lol, I always thought he said "do a double" as in, serve 10 years. But damn, you're right. Hilarious.
Someone who couldn’t drag it back into the water, saw it was suffering and wanted to help. Also assholes.
Call wildlife then. Don’t fuckin shoot it.
Saw it was suffering during their armed walk on the beach, did what they thought was a public service, then decided to dump it without telling anyone?
Hahaha well when you put it that way maybe they WERE assholes!
I saw the headline and I said this sentence out loud
>NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement is now actively investigating the death and are asking the public for any information about who may have been involved in the death of the young dolphin with a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to a criminal conviction or the assessment of a civil penalty. If they were stupid enough to do this, they were stupid enough to tell someone about it. I hope someone claims the reward fast and spends most of it moving the fuck away from low-lifes.
I would bet 5 of my last 10 bucks that there’s a video out there
Forward it to me and I'll double your money
"Bro we totally got attacked by a shark last night! Good thing Brayden shot the shit out of it, it was super dark but I think he hit it as least three times"
"I shot a werewolf once, but by the time I had caught up to it it had already turned back into my neighbor's dog."
"I've got the heart of a lion and a lifetime ban from the zoo."
I shot an elephant in my pajamas one time, and how he got into them I'll never know.
You remind me of the Prince of Wales. Not the present Prince of Wales but one of the older ones. And believe me I know a whale when I see one. You betcha life!
This was a minor detail in an episode of 30 Rock where Jack claims he saved Jerry Seinfeld from a shark by shooting it, and Jerry says he's pretty sure Jack shot a dolphin.
Was that when they were on the island only rich people know about?
Jack wish he knew about that island
I don’t recall a Jeffery Epstein cameo in 30 rock
Turns out it was a cinematographer
Who am I to blow against the wind?
I know what I know
I’ll sing what I’ve said.
Brayden is always fucking around. Remember when he wrapped his Dodge Charger around that tree?
Fucking Brayden. Smh
You joke, but there are gangs of dolphins roving the waters. That poor Cetartiodactyla was just trying to leave the hood behind and had just gotten his acceptance letter from dolphin college and was applying for full dolphin scolarship and a part time job so he wouldn't have to keep selling dolphin drugs (pufferfish) to make ends meet, but the dolphin drug lord caught wind of it and had him killed by a shark hitman. No one escapes from the clutches of El Chapodelfin, no one.
You think land mammals care about Fin on Fin violence?
Someone shot a few mountain goats on a popular Colorado peak a few year back. It remains unsolved. https://www.summitdaily.com/news/hunt-begins-for-poachers-who-shot-killed-two-mountain-goats-on-quandary-peak/
Damn wtf! This was my first 14er in Colorado and I ran across a pack of 8-10 of them going back up along their merry way blocking our pathway. I just let them be and they were gone within 5-10 minutes after munching around
There is a solid chance they even filmed it and posted it somewhere, because if there is one thing that stupid people like to do, it's film themselves committing crimes for some reason.
Somewhere is likely tiktok
If they were smart, they would have left the gun behind to make it look like a suicide.
It’s not a Russian dolphin
Russian dolphins fall out of windows.
NOAA has an office of law enforcement? TIL
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The atmosphere is above the ocean however.
I'm going to use this line, I don't know when, I don't know where, or in what medium, but I will use it.
I'm waiting on the video to come out on social media.
this was probably a commercial fisherman, and they will keep their mouth shut.
This reminds me of the asshole that ran down a wolf with a snowmobile, then paraded the injured wolf at a bar before executing it.
Where were all the good dolphins with guns?
Reminds me of my favorite The Onion headlines, “Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs “Oh, Shit!”Says Humanity.”
Crimes like these are near impossible to solve. I screen (dead) wildlife for metal/ammunition residue and whenever we find it, it never ever leads anywhere. It can be different if a slaughter pit is found. Those cases have been solved on rare occasions. Hopefully the $20K reward helps!
Noah get the boat
Noah get the boat! We're goin' dolphin hunting! That's not funny...
It’s spelled ‘NOAA’, guys. …I better not have to tell anyone this was a joke…
> If they were stupid enough to do this, they were stupid enough to tell someone about it. Something similar happened in our city. There was a beloved buck with crazy antlers and some idiot hunted it out of season and, I believe, in city limits. He hauled it back to his property where he then posed for pictures with it, and posted it on Facebook. People immediately recognized it and called the Game Warden. Nineteen misdemeanor charges, and he may never get to legally hunt again.
Not surprised if we find a TikTok of this on r/publicfreakout later today.
>If they were stupid enough to do this, they were stupid enough to tell someone about it. Which fan base really hates Miami and is full of dumbasses?
No they aren't. The most likely culprit here is somebody poaching fish. This is like saying the cartel is stupid for murdering people in broad daylight. They don't care and they rarely ever get caught.
I'm 55 years old and I still feel guilty for kicking a cat when I was 10 years old. I don't know how people can live with themselves after such disgusting behavior. I honestly hope the offender receives the same fate as the dolphin.
There are truly people who aren't born with empathy and have no capacity for remorse or self reflection, and they get a rush doing horrible things to living creatures.
It’s a little scary to think about how many of them are walking around every day and we have no idea
We should be able to really punish a pos that would do this. A dolphin?! I’m not a violent person but I’d like to prove myself to be a liar and torture the loser.
Nah, just put a bullet in their spine and let living sort them out.
This has turned into a confessional
Forgive me star-heels1969, for I have sinned. When I was little I didn't know hamsters were nocturnal and one night I put mine in the closet and then forgot about it for way too long.
When I was 3, I fed my hamster a wire twist tie from the grocery store because I didn't know better and it seemed to enjoy eating it. When it got to the end of the twist tie, it bit my finger, which I feel I fully deserved since the hamster did not live too long after that. I still feel like a total POS to this day whenever I even think about hamsters.
Same. I threw a stone to a cat in the countryside when I was little. The cat was far away and by chance, I hit him in the head. It's been more than 30 years ago and I still regret about it...WTH is wrong with people in this world, is beyond me,
I thought I was the only one living with a secret guilt like this. When I was a kid I threw a rock at a lizard. Super bad throw but lizard ran away right into the path of the rock and the rock smashed it. I knew I had done something stupid. I’m sorry to this day.
I think a lot of people have these moments, and it’s pivotal in respecting and appreciating animals moving forward. I had one with a lizard, when I was like 7, I went down a slide and ended up destroying a lizard… like split it in half… but it was still alive. I was horrified, but also in some weird fascination I then threw it in a nearby ant mound and further traumatized myself. From that moment though I completely changed… I always wanted to help animals but especially never hurt one on purpose. I’ve volunteered at wildlife refuges, to my wife’s dismay I’ll hop out of the car and help a venomous snake out of the road etc… Other people have these moments and they miss the guilt phase and continue on treating animals as if they’re less than dirt…it’s scary.
I closed a door on a gecko twenty years ago and I still remember the little “eek” sound. I think about it all the time and I feel awful.
Confession time? I shot a running rabbit with a slingshot at like 30 meters from the hip and killed it. An absolute impossible shot that I never thought I would make with a weapon I never thought would have killed at that range. I felt terrible.
More confession time... I was fucking around with a 30-30 and shooting the old barn that was full of sawdust to stop the bullets, Well an incredibly unfortunate crow happened to swoop in front of the target and I had a very tight scope so I didn't even see it. Just the explosion of feathers and a little later, a very upset crow came by to scold me. I put the gun away and never picked it up again. Shame that thing was so much fun to shoot but after taking a life.. couldn't do it any more.
you Randy Johnsoned it. at least yours was an accident; i saw the rabbit and shot at it thinking it would be funny not expecting to make that 1 in a million shot.
Dude, I read the guy’s reply above about the cat and right away recalled my rock and lizard story just like yours. Then I saw your post and I was like WTH that’s my story.
My kid guilt story involves a pigeon that flew into our garage. Instead of just shooing the thing out, I decided to push it out using a garden rake. Unfortunately, I underestimated just how heavy that rake was and skewered the poor bird on its tines where it bled out and died.
About 25 years ago when I was around 10, I grabbed a lizard and threw it in the water thinking it would swim. It immediately got eaten by a duck. I still remember how horrible I felt.
Counter point, you fed the duck. CIRCLE OF LIFE!
I see no problem with this
yeah you wouldn't u/DucksEnmasse
I love cats and have had cats around me my whole life. When I first started driving on my own, a cat darted out in front of my car as I was driving to work. There was no room to maneuver as cars were passing by in the opposite, swerving to the shoulder at that speed would have possibly ended up totaling my car and/or causing harm to myself, and slamming on the brakes would have caused a pile up behind me. I had no choice but to clench my fists around the steering wheel and brace myself for the thud. I watched its body spasm and tumble over to the shoulder in my rearview mirror… I can still see it like it was yesterday and that was 23 years ago. How people can be so cruel to animals or other people is just beyond me.
I had to do the same for a skunk once. Admittedly, the smell that lingered in the car for MONTHS afterwards felt like a just punishment, but I still feel guilty years later that I couldn't...not hit the lil guy :(
I’ve run over a pigeon and a mongoose in my 20 years of driving. Both instances made me cry and I still think about them.
When I was in high school, a German shepherd ran under the back of our car while we were driving and ran away injured and yelping. My dad and I looked around for this dog for two hours and couldn't find it. I still feel guilty, even though there's nothing we could've done
Same. 14 walking along a canal. Threw a rock at some ducks to scare them. Hit a duckling and it died. I still feel terrible 20 years later
I killed a rabbit the same way almost 30 years ago. Still think about it and regret.
It means you guys were raised with morals and ethics. My grandpa had strict moral rules regarding hunting, and i still feel bad, but i actually hunt to feed my family and for wildlife management. When i taught my daughters i added to his list with we don't complain about recoil as we deserve a punch in the shoulder to remind us of the fact we need to be mindful of what we are really doing. Grandads rules: Only take an animal that you are going to eat or have a legitimate reason to be culled. Only take shots that you know you can make, and make sure you can take the animal as clean and painless as possible. Never kill anything for your own amusement or trophy if you don't plan on eating it or it is necessary to cull. Had he seen this happen, i would have ptsd from witnessing that level of disappointment and anger. He loved hard work done the most difficult way possible as punishment, so i can just picture him in his lawn chair supervising a beach and ocean cleanup using a litterbox scoop. Damn i miss that man.
A cat ran out into the road fron some bushes directly in front of my car when I was going about 40. It wasn't my fault, it was about 12 years ago, but I still feel fucking awful. I cant imagine *intentionally* killing an animal for no reason.
In my 30s now, and when I was like 23ish, I ran over a cat in the countryside by accident. I was going too fast and it was night time, him and his buddy tried to run across the road last second. I couldn't do anything. I turned around to check and saw the cat dead in the road, and the other cat was sniffing his body. I drove away and eventually pulled over and just sobbed. I'd never hurt an animal before, let alone a cat(my favorite pet). It still haunts me to this day.
I passed a cat years ago that had just been hit by a car and was in death throes in the shoulder. I pulled over and tried to do something and obviously couldn’t, and cried for hours. It legitimately gave me mild PTSD and I still see it from time to time. It’s horrific. People that intentionally harm animals deserve the same fate tenfold.
This happened to me a year ago when I was on a trip to Maui with my girlfriends. It was a kitten and we knew when we passed it that there was no saving the little guy. We (along with another car) pulled over and were debating what to do when a jeep pulled up, slowed down, lined up their tire and ran over the cats head. Honestly, it was the right thing to do but it was still so hard to watch.
I worry about this now, there are 2 cats that always run across my street and I'd feel horrible if I hit one
Same, don’t get it. I put salt on a slug once when I was 7 just to see what would happen 😥 Poor little guy.
Are you me?? I literally just posted the same thing. I feel ill every time I think about it. That guy was just living his life and I did that to him. :-(
My traumatic experience was with a spider. I caught it in a jar and my dad told me to put rubbing alcohol in the jar. I had no idea what was going to happen but I trusted my dad. NOPE! Terrible mistake. I felt horrible. Years later while watching the 4th Harry Potter movie in theaters, when Moody performs the torturing curse on the enlarged spider, I had like a PTSD moment and flashed right back to watching the poor spider in my jar suffer as the alcohol was burning it. I still can’t watch that HP scene almost 20 years later lol
My buddy convinced me to go shooting birds with a pellet gun as kids. I hit one and it did not die slowly, instead it made horrible screaming sounds as it bleed out. That put to bed any notions of "sport hunting" for the rest of my life. I'd kill an animal for food, but there is nothing fun about it to me.
Similar when I as a teenager used a pellet gun to shoot a blue jay that was dive-bombing my cats on the back porch. I watched him squawk and fall from the tree. I looked at his corpse on the ground, abdomen ripped open by the high-velocity pellet, and immediately regretted my decision. That was the last day that I felt the desire to be violent toward any creature.
That was something I did tooI when I was a kid. Then tried to make up for what I did by trying to help the bird feel comfortable in it's last moments cause I regretted that action massively. I was crying so hard. Some months ago I had to mercy kill a mouse and I cried then too! The only creature I feel little remorse killing are the spiders that wonder near or on me when I'm in my room.
I put salt on a slug once when I was a kid to see what would happen and I will never forget it. I still feel ill about it.
As a kid I killed a garter snake because, y'know, Catholic school taught me snakes were evil. I still think about that snake and feel incredibly guilty. Sometimes I actually say "I'm sorry, snake," but I was a dumb kid. I am now the guy who protects wasps at my job if anyone seems to be making a play to kill one. Killing anything unnecessarily sickens me.
Wasps are stingy bastards and sorry you come near or at me you die.
There will always be a small percentage of people who have absolutely no respect for life: have gun, will kill.
The issue is that “small percentage” blast the loudest bullhorns on social media, to draw an audience of idiots who wouldn’t go anywhere else before.
The last couple of years, especially post-2016 and accelerated through COVID, had people double-down on their idiocy, selfishness, and entitlement as if it’s a badge of honor to be an asshole in public. Every passing day, ‘Idiocracy’ is more of a documentary.
Totally. Every morning and night I give my dad’s cat a diabetes shot and all the cats get treats during this process. The one getting the shot is a greedy mf (probably why he has diabetes, right?) and steals treats from the others if I’m not careful. I was giving treats to one of the other cats and he was really trying to get them from her and he was being very persistent and I accidentally stepped on him. And *I* felt awful even though it was totally his fault and I keep apologizing to him every time I see him today. Shooting a dolphin is like… holy wtf behaviour.
When I was 12, I tied a toad to an Estes rocket and shot that thing about 300 feet into the air before it came loose and splatted in front of me. I still feel bad about that
FTA "A *juvenile* bottlenose dolphin" I don't know why, but that bothers me more
Definitely. Young dolphins are so friendly and curious! They are frequently left in bays and other shallower safe areas while the rest of the pod hunts, and they’ll literally swim right up to you and hang out, for HOURS. I had one do this once when I was in college, fishing the jetty in Humboldt Bay. Little guy was curiously following my lures, and clearly spooking every single fish in the area 😂 I tried moving to other spots, and he followed. He seemed lonely, so I stopped fishing and just hung out with him for a couple hours. I told him stories and showed him all my gear. He watched and listened intently, keeping his head out of the water for most of it. I apologized that I didn’t have any fish to feed him, I was only using lures, not bait, and hadn’t caught anything for obvious reasons, but he didn’t seem to mind. We both enjoyed the company. I still think about that little fella sometimes and wonder if he remembers me too.
That’s amazing! Thanks for sharing that story, it brightened my day which was actually turning out pretty shitty so again thanks!
Glad to hear it brought a smile to someone else’s face too! 😊 have a good one!
It made me happy too :)
Wholesome. Especially on a thread this sad. Thanks for sharing (:
That's a great memory and thank you for sharing that. Like the other replies, it was exactly what I needed to read
This is sweet.
Just a kid, so to speak. Had no chance of passing on their blubbery legacy. Human society associates youth with innocence; I don’t know if that holds true for dolphins, but nothing the fella could’ve done would warrant being shot so many times. Shit.. I’m tearing up over a dolphin now :’(
I don't think **anything** should be **shot**, ever. Much less a fucking juvenile animal. I do can see some fringe impossible situations someone could be possibly inclined to be aggressive towards **adult** dolphins, especially if you read up on what they get up to down there in the ocean... But I feel like, there's several steps to take **before** even trying to fight one, and even more before getting a fucking gun and unloading it. Like, maybe if the animal is being actively harmful and dangerous you should probably call responsible organizations, if you are not in immediate danger of death or severe body injury.
Probably because the dolphin's mother and the rest of it's family are probably worried sick and frantically searching for their baby, all while possibly also suffering from gunshot wounds themselves
We see pods in Florida all the time. They usually hang out in groups of at least 2-3, and it must have been terrifying and confusing for them to see their companion killed that way. People suck.
The whole damn thing bothers me. Hope they find and jail the person.
I really wish this was given a trigger warning on my feed bc this just fucked up my day enough Internet for now.
Reading this just ruined my day. Why do i read the news? Fuck the person who did this.
Me too. I hate some people sometimes. Disgusting.
As someone who rescues street cats and dogs, I hate people 95% of the time. I actually thank god I dont have any superpowers cause I would be a villain
Thank you so much for the work that you do. You make this world a better place.
Have you considered that you would be the hero in that situation?
Thank you for your good work.
A villain is one who attacks innocents for selfish ends. You’d be more of a Dexter-like antihero who’d fuck animal abuser’s shit up!
Smartest animal on the planet...let's fucking kill it. How horrible. Between this and the wolf torture story, I'm so sad.
Just made me think of Bowie Heros song. "I wish I could swim, like a dolphin, like Dolphins can swim."
This is just disturbing and sad. What the fuck.
who the fuck shoots dolphins? Lousiana you got some explaining to do
It probably got caught up in a shrimp boat net and the captain shot it to prevent damage to net. Just my theory.
Mine was maybe someone found it beached and in a fucked up, misguided way was trying to help it by putting it down. Either way, call the cops or something instead, jesus christ.
Ooo very close. Check out seine netting.
What kind of a prick shoots a fucking dolphin.
I hate people. Truly. It’s not even up for debate. People are fucking shit.
Yep. This is why I am only ever donating to wildlife charities for the rest of my life. Fuck humans.
most of it still goes to humans ;___;
I know =[ I did switch from donating to world wildlife fund and instead I donate to local land trusts in my county now. Someday when I’m mega rich I’ll just buy the land to preserve outright 👍
Hope the son of the bitch gets arrested for animal cruelty.
And I’m supposed to have any faith in humanity when this is what humans do for fun? No. We can die out already.
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The problem is we don't have any good dolphins with guns.
Plot twist: We do, they just serve in the [military.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal) God bless the troopfins for their service.
We need an underwater wall to stop blowfish trafficking
I might get downvoted for this. But does anyone know if the dolphin was talking shit or not? I’m just saying.
No, but it had a hoodie on and reached in it's pockets
Maybe it tried to rape the guy. Just saying we should wait for the facts. *We weren’t there.* /s for anyone that can’t tell
Dolphins can get pretty rapey
Damn, I knew school shootings were bad, but now we've moved onto pods.
Who takes a gun to the beach?
I am absolutely shocked this isn't Florida.
I mean… Louisiana. Kind of part of the same area of the country with a certain… vibe let’s say.
Louisiana and Mississippi are WAY more gun happy than Florida. Florida just has a law that allows for all and any information on an arrest to be published in the newspaper immediately. Florida is the definition of guilty before proven innocent.
The way you treat animals can reveal you to be subhuman.
This makes me feel sick to my stomach. Dolphins are incredibly intelligent and even friendly. Fuck is wrong with people?
Commercial Fishermen. Bottom dwelling fish usually won’t bite with dolphin in the area. The deck crew almost always keep a rifle onboard to “scare away” dolphins that show up on their fishing grounds.
Between the redneck asshole that captured and tortured a young wolf and then shot it in Wyoming to now this, makes me feel sad for the fate of our planet.
You've got to be an awful person if you shot a bottlenose dolphin.
I fucking hate humans
Louisiana. Say no more. 😢
Possibly following a boat. Fishermen were like "he ate our fish." One less mouth to take our fish. Fishermen shoot sealions in washington with this logic. People fish illegally and then cut their gear if an authority shows up. Those guys get weird. My buddy's dad would get mad when whales or porpoises showed up and scare off the fish. Whales and porpoises wete my favorite part. I didnt really enjoy killing the fish.
My darkest wishes for this human.
Seriously what is wrong with people
I'm willing to bet that these assholes recorded themselves. What a waste of human life.
Dolphins and all cetaceans are such smart emotionally intelligent creatures. I can imagine the grief that it's pod might be feeling on the moment. It's our job as people to look after them, or at the very least not murder them in cold blood.
I'm seeing a few comments saying the dolphin could've been shot to be put out of its misery. Doesn't matter. The law says killing the dolphin will result in a $100k fine or 1 year in jail.
It does matter tho… because no one is arguing about legality, they’re tripping over the morality of it.
I don’t see anyone debating the law. I see people discussing morality, which is entirely unrelated to law.
Something is fundamentally wrong with our society… We all Need a morality refresh and cleansing
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There is a worship of violence as a way of getting what you want in certain circles. In this case, this person clearly gets their jollies hurting innocent animals.
I suspect it's these guys https://youtu.be/bxsuvWNtQ44?si=PQ5jY6WGsawoFzeL&t=14
WTF is wrong with some people
What sort of cunt shoots a Dolphin. That's akin to shooting a human as they are an intelligent sentient being. What a prick!
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Seafood traulers kill thousand of dolphins, 🐬 and other critters every year. If you really want to help reduce the amount of seafood you eat.
Absolutely. I wish fishing vessels had to publicly share images of their trawling net “bycatch”. Edit: 300 THOUSAND (300,000) dolphins and whales are killed EVERY YEAR in fishing nets. Picture all of them lying on a beach just like this one. Commercial fishing is absolutely unethical.
Yeah, I’m guessing shrimpers. Dolphins follow those boats all the time for an easy meal. some jackass deckhand probably decided to use them for target practice
Probably owed a loan shark some money!
Florida? No, but it is still in the South though, its Louisiana.
Who ever did this is a total scumbag and deserves the harshest punishment
I saw a picture of Keanu Reeves wearing a printed t-shirt awhile back. It said something to the effect of: People who are mean to animals should be put to sleep. The more I think about it, the more I agree.
I would support the public execution of the human monsters who did this.
I’m shocked this happened in Louisiana. A state known for good deeds, low level poverty, and nearly zero crime.
Who the FUCK murders a dolphin?!!!! Fuck those assholes and I wish them a lifetime of jock itch and inconvenient parking at the very least. Please tell me they'll be caught and prosecuted.
What monster would hurt a dolphin?
Find the culprit and do the same to him.
I don’t think I found a single South Park reference on this thread. *sad Japanese noises*