6% of drivers TRY to turn beasties into roadkill

[Coexist]

Watch the video at this link.

Who actually tries to kill them?

"A whopping 89 percent were trucks and SUVs (is that surprising?) and the rest were cars."

People are so very interesting....

[Mnemosyne]

1. I knew a woman, long ago, that would hit opossums, "because they are ugly";

she needed to look in a mirror.

Disgusting piece of shits.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. sick

[Mnemosyne]

25. I avoid such idiots. Disgusting to know that anyone does it on purpose, I even try to brake

for butterflies and other creatures.

[SoutherDem]

2. It bothers me if I accidentally kill a rabbit or raccoon

I try to miss the animals, to the point I may endanger my self. I can't believe there are sick people who tries to kill them.

[TwilightGardener]

4. I rode in a car with a coworker who went after squirrels. I told her she was a lunatic

and we never really got along after that.

[Worried senior]

5. That's why where we live

in a rural WI area that we worry a great deal about the dog possibly running into the road. Know there are those that go out of their way to kill. Kind of like people with guns.

[Capt. Obvious]

6. We already lost Adam Yauch

We must do all we can to protect Mike D and Adrock.

[Brickbat]

11. .

[fishwax]

15. .

(to both the other post and your gif)

[gilpo]

45. you win the internet

favorite post ever

[sinkingfeeling]

7. People aren't interesting, they're sick. Big 'macho' men think it's fun to kill.

Again, our culture is primarily violent.

[MineralMan]

8. I saw a teenager or early 20-something deliberately swerve to run over a neighbor's

cat once while speeding up the street. The kid lived on our street. I took care of the poor cat's body and told the neighbor about what had happened, when she came home from work. The two of us went to the kids house and had a long conversation with the parents. Following that, the parents took the car away from the kid and sold it. They paid some unknown amount of money to the neighbor. I didn't see the kid much any more. Apparently, they reacted in a way that subdued the kid.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. I lost one cat and one dog to deliberate road deaths

someone had left the gate open and the dog got out.
The cat was walking on the side of the road and was deliberately run over, the neighbor saw it.
This was a road with hardly any traffic and wide enough that one could easily MISS hitting anything even in the road, the speed limit was 35 because of the driveways egressing the street.
Fortunately we are now at the end of a long driveway, and the cats do not even go to the road.
The dog is never unleashed..ever.

[MineralMan]

19. Where we used to live, our cats could go in and out as they pleased.

When we moved to St. Paul, MN, we decided to convert them to indoor cats. Surprisingly, they didn't seem to care that much. They were in new surroundings and didn't show a lot of interest in venturing outdoors. One of the ones we moved here died of old age a couple of years ago. The two we have now spend a lot of time on a bench at our front picture window, watching all the wild critters we feed. They seem happy as can be.

Incidentally, when we lived in California and had a cat flap, we had two cats who lived into their mid-20s. I built the cat flap myself, and made it too large, so the raccoons also came in and out as they pleased. They didn't do any damage, and got along OK with the cats, so we pretty much ignored them. Once in a while, I'd come out of the bedroom in the middle of the night, and there'd be a cat and a raccoon asleep on the couch. Interesting times.

[Warpy]

26. My cats back in New England made friends with skunks.

Needless to say, I didn't have a cat door.

I've seen a few on purpose animal hits, too, and it's one major reason I keep my precious beasties indoors here in the macho wild west, where the losers feel especially entitled to do horrible things like that.

The only thing I ever went out of my way to mush in a car was a patch of Gypsy moth caterpillars on the road during a particularly bad outbreak when they weren't sure the trees were going to live.

[kathysart_decoration]

9. Sociopathic behavior?

Just want to add that I have a social work degree and did some work with unattached children (children without a conscience.) One of the things I read about and discussed with others is that we would hear from therapeutic foster parents of these troubled children that if they were driving along and there was a dead animal in the street, these children would get happy and giddy and excited about seeing the blood and gore and guts of dead animals. While other children would be very sad and upset by dead animals, these kids were very excited and happy to be able to view the death and carnage.
There is what is called the homicidal triad of sociopaths as children, which is fire setting, bed wetting and killing animals. Viewing a dead animal for these kids may have substituted for actually being able to kill. This is just the briefest of views of a very complicated subject.

[Arugula Latte]

10. Sickening.

Sometimes I really hate our own species.

[Taverner]

12. Hell, I feel disturbed when I run over a small lizard

That is, if I saw said lizard

[RebelOne]

20. Likewise, I was disturbed when a bird flew into my car

on the highway and was killed. I would never deliberately run over any animal.

[loli phabay]

30. wouldnt chase one down, but neither am i going to swerve to miss one or brake to the extent that it

causes loss of control, unfortunately a lot of people crash trying to avoid the squirrel on the road.

[barbtries]

41. i still think about the red tailed hawk

that flew into my windshield a couple years ago. it flew off but i'll never know if it was in shock and died in the woods. i hope it lived.

[barbtries]

14. sadly that's very easy to believe.

i saw a canada goose dead in the street and really wondered how that could have been unavoidable. they walk so slow. they are so big. i just thought maybe that was no accident. will never know though.

just as i will never know that the woman who killed my daughter swerved deliberately out of her lane to do so. i believe that though. it doesn't always have to be beasties, sometimes it's people.

[FedUpWithIt All]

33. I'm sorry for your loss barbtries.

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[barbtries]

39. thank you FedUpWithItAll

[Angry Dragon]

36. ..........

[barbtries]

40. thanks Angry Dragon

[renate]

37. every time I see your tagline, and a picture of your beautiful girl, my heart drops

I have to admit that the idea that anybody could deliberately hit a person or animal never, ever, ever crossed my mind before. I don't just mean it was hard to imagine, I mean it just never was part of the realm of possibility for me before. I was always so disgusted by careless driving--and beyond disgusted by drunk driving--that that act alone seemed negligent enough to me.

I'm horrified that there are people who do it on purpose. And I hope and pray that your daughter's death was not any more deliberate than it already was, and I say "deliberate" because that driver made the choice to drive while she was incapacitated. That, to me, is deliberate enough, whether or not she swerved to hit your daughter. I cannot begin to imagine the pain anyway, let alone how it must feel to wonder whether it was even more cruel. I really, really hope it was not, although you know more of the details than you would ever wish to and I do not. But I was thinking that if the driver was that drunk, she was probably too drunk to do anything at all purposefully.

I'm so unspeakably sorry.

[barbtries]

38. thank you renate.

she was charged with murder and allowed to plead out. i believe she did mean to kill Bek. but of course can never prove it conclusively.

[Bucky]

16. Evolutionary pressures are everywhere.

[Hissyspit]

17. I figured that out a long time ago.

Not the exact number, of course, but it sounds about right to me.

[Bonhomme Richard]

18. I actually run over small roadkills to....

tenderize it a bit for the scavengers, though skunks I tend to avoid.

[loli phabay]

31. rofl so your the sob who ran over the skunk the other day that then sprayed my truck

OMG i couldnt drive fast enough to have the smell fall behind me.

[Edweird]

21. It's TEH GUNZ. The fact that somebody, somewhere owns a gun makes them kill.

I'm series!11!!!

[TrogL]

22. I think my cat may have been deliberately hit by a car last week

[DCKit]

23. Yes, but how many lose control of their vehicles and crash by doing so?

Karma, followed by Schadenfreude.

[GoneOffShore]

24. Do watch the video - Only rubber snakes, rubber spiders and rubber turtles were harmed

[proud patriot]

27. dude ! he took the snake

[hedgehog]

28. I heard about a similar study, and spotted a turtle crossing the road once

as I pulled out of our driveway. I pulled over, checked for traffic, and ran up and grabbed the large turtle behind the hind legs.











Did you know a snapping turtle can reach its head around to its tail?





Fortunately, at that point i was holding the turtle over the open trunk of my car.





It was fun, though, explaining to my husband that now we had to get a snapping turtle out of the trunk of the car and down to the creek. Thank heavens for 5 gallon buckets!

[Odin2005]

29. I bet that's the same % of people with Sociopathic tendencies.

[mythology]

32. Given how poor many drivers seem to be,

I'm not sure if I could differentiate between the pathetic excuse for a human being too stupid to pay attention to the road or the pathetic excuse for a human being malevolent enough to intentionally hit an animal.

Just driving home from work today, I saw more than 10 cars driving down the shoulder because they thought they were above sitting in traffic and 3 cars driving the wrong way down a road because they weren't smart enough to figure out that the double yellow lines down the middle of the road meant that it was a two way street. Yesterday while biking home a woman asked me if the pile of stuff she just ran over might have been glass even though it was obvious that's what it was.

[Fumesucker]

35. How do you drive the wrong way down a two way street?

[Pool Hall Ace]

34. One of the chuckleheads who used to work for my husband

admitted to deriving pleasure from running over animals, including deer for glub's sake, which is extra-stupid since they can do so much damage to your vehicle!

[jp11]

42. If not already mentioned perhaps the reason car drivers are less likely to attempt to

kill the thing is the perception that their car isn't indestructible as many in SUV's/trucks tend to feel about their urban recreational vehicles that so many never take anywhere you'd need the ground clearance, size, power, etc.

Also the pony tailed science haters could easily have thought that removing the distraction would be a benefit to other drivers perhaps saving them from an accident, etc.

[yellowcanine]

43. Very cool - and funny. Mark Rober will definitely go far in life.

It is nice to see a young man with so much ambition and creativity.

[yellowcanine]

44. Squirrels and ground hogs are favorite targets of "cager" killers.

"Cagers" are people in cars or trucks to motorcycle riders. And trust me, very few motorcycle riders go after animals of any kind.