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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: Asante]
#7558530 - 10/25/07 09:50 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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my polysci teacher was telling me about a neighbor he had who would perform surgical procedures on squirrels... oh so gently removing their tails, and then letting them out...
poor things couldn't balance anymore that's evil
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: WakeboardrB]
#7558555 - 10/25/07 10:00 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I once peed into antnest if that counts. Then I was involved in killing a frog with airgun. I remember it took about 5+ bullets to kill the little thing, but I don't remember if I took any shots or not. I felt quite uncomfortably. Though in the early years of puberty when I was mostly hanging out with totally wrong people and being wasted I once beated up and hurt badly two homeless old men for no reason. Just thinking about it makes me feel sick about myself. Fuck me!
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: psychophobia]
#7558580 - 10/25/07 10:07 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I used to burn ants with a magnifier and salt slugs all the time when I was little. I'm pretty sure I killed a few squirrels and birds with my bb gun to.
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: Asante]
#7558592 - 10/25/07 10:12 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I once threw some ants into a cup of hydrogen peroxide, to see what it would do (not much but foam).
Another time I poured some muriatic acid right on top of a huge ant nest...wow you should have seen all the fumes!!! Suffice it to say that there wasn't any ant nest there anymore. Or grass, for a while 
We also used to catch praying mantises and put them in a big container with a cricket or something...but then it was the mantis that got them, not I
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: trendal]
#7558599 - 10/25/07 10:14 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I used to burn ants with a magnifier
We tried that...but it got boring real quick. We moved on to the big one-foot-sqaure magnifying glass from the overhead projector. Could set actual fires with that one
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: trendal]
#7558697 - 10/25/07 10:51 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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i used to torture insects all the time. never ever any animals though.
when i was about 5 or 6 living in colorado, i would catch grasshoppers/locusts, holding them by their legs and dangle them into reach of fierce red ants. once a couple red ants climbed aboard, i would let go. often times the grasshopper would be able to get away easily the first time, so i'd catch it and put it there again. if it got away the second time, i deemed it worthy to live. watching it get swarmed by ants was pretty cool though. like watching an epic struggle of insect might.
then when i was 8-10 living in pennsylvania, i would catch grasshoppers/locusts and throw them into the webs of a specific type of spider that cropped up all around the outside of my house. the webs were really thick and horizontal, and led to a funnel in which the spider would lie in wait. then, once something was adequately ensnared, it would shoot out and attack it.
when i was about 12-13 living in NC, there was large black ant nest living under a flat rock that was used for a walkway. i'd go out there with a burning candle, flip over the rock, and wax the fuck out of ants. in my mind, it was like a movie and the candle wax was like this super destructive weapon of an alien race, and the ants were all running for their lives. it was always really interesting to see the different ways they'd be captured. some would have just one or two feet caught, some would have just their feelers caught, some just their heads, some completely entombed in wax. i did this a lot.
when i was like 14-15, i wouldgo around my house with a rag, and snap at flies. i got really good at it to the point that quite often i could snap them out of mid-air. when i caught and disabled a fly, i would use elmer's glue to glue it to a piece of paper with all the other capture and kills. there were about 50 flies on that paper.
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: Asante]
#7558744 - 10/25/07 11:08 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I tourtured insects, burning ant piles with gas and a match, flooding them with the hose, ect. I have hurt my fair share of lizzards and frogs tho. Always amazed me how much they could take and still be alive. I would kill them quickly though when it got too nasty.
Chased the cat around the house a few times when i was a kid. One day I traped it in a cornner, and he sat there hissing and growling, and i slowly walked up to him, and he bolted, when i looked back at where he was, there was a big fresh steamer. I litteraly scared the shit out of him, never did it again after that.
I knoew one fucked up kid in middle school, told me a few tails, he lit a cats tail on fire and watched it turn into a fireball, and another time he tricked a cat into a dryer, and turned it on full blast for a few min, broke about every bone in its body. Never did like that kid...
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: ThirdEyeOpening]
#7558760 - 10/25/07 11:12 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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that kid is fucking sick. i can't decide whether he needs to be beat within an inch of his life, or sent to a mental institution.
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I heard somewhere recently that empathy is an emotion that is not grasped by human beings until the age of about 8 or 9.
Kids will be kids.
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: CherryBom]
#7558802 - 10/25/07 11:22 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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the guy was in middle school. that's like 11-13.
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: CherryBom]
#7558811 - 10/25/07 11:24 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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CherryBom said: I heard somewhere recently that empathy is an emotion that is not grasped by human beings until the age of about 8 or 9.
Kids will be kids.
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Yea he was a really twisted individual, always talked of guns and killing, very aggresive, and had a sick or distastefull remark for everything. I have no idea where he is now but i have a good guess.
And yea i knew him in 7-8 grade, and he was a bit older so about 12-14 range.
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: CherryBom]
#7558861 - 10/25/07 11:35 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I heard somewhere recently that empathy is an emotion that is not grasped by human beings until the age of about 8 or 9.
Doesn't quite sound right... I sure felt bad for that crayfish 
I remember learning in psych class that even toddlers exhibit empathy.
From Wiki:
By the age of 2, children normally begin to display the fundamental behaviors of empathy by having an emotional response that corresponds with another person. Even earlier, at one year of age, infants have some rudiments of empathy, in the sense that they grasp the intentions of other people. Sometimes, toddlers will comfort others or show concern for them as early as 24 months of age.
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: Asante]
#7558887 - 10/25/07 11:40 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I tortured some insects as a kid. Not because it gave me satisfaction but more in a mad-scientist kind of way.
I once killed a couple of birds with my bb gun. I felt bad about it afterwards though.
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: BrAiN]
#7558891 - 10/25/07 11:42 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I went out of my way to kill bugs and throw shit and animals, and I may have been indirectly responsible for the putting down of my cat
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: ThirdEyeOpening]
#7558914 - 10/25/07 11:45 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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always talked of guns and killing, very aggresive, and had a sick or distastefull remark for everything.
If he didn't outgrow that it's not somebody to be around.
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#7558915 - 10/25/07 11:45 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Hyper_Panda_GO said: I went out of my way to throw shit and animals
heh... shit and animals.
the worst thing i can think of that i've ever done to an animal was when i had these hamsters. mother fuckers kept on fucking. and i knew we didn't need anymore... so whenever i saw them fucking, i'd reach in there, grab the male, and throw him at the couch. not like hard, and the couch was really poofy and soft. so i know he wasn't hurt. but he would squeak when he landed and look around all crazy like.
could you imagine going at it, gettin your sex on, then all of a sudden you're flying through the air. heh..
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Odd, I meant to say at
Oh shit, I've ALWAYS wanted to kick a hamster ball while a hamster is in it
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#12257155 - 03/23/10 05:48 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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I caught a frog for someone that diced it up with a dull kitchen knife ontop a rock at age 6. Felt pretty shitty..
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Re: Did you torture bugs/animals as a kid? [Re: hightimesreader]
#12257184 - 03/23/10 05:51 PM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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I once dissected lizards out in the Florida 'glades.
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