• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The driver who killed the chicken is a shit stain and she will eventually kill someone. Imagine if that a child, elderly person or someone on a wheelchair.

  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz
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    6 days ago

    I was on her side until I read the article. She chased this person an unspecified distance in her car, blocked the chicken killer’s car with her own, then attempted to open their car door, before settling on macing them.

    Fuck that impatient chicken killer but you don’t get to do a road rage for some vigilante justice. This was just two psychopaths being brought together by circumstance.

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      7 days ago

      Well yeah, it’s not like I’d do something sick like pay to have a chicken’s beak cut off while it’s still alive.

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        6 days ago

        Yeah and I definitely wouldn’t condemn a species to factory farming just to suit my cultural norms of what lunch is

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      7 days ago

      in this case, this is especially relevant

      The woman stopped to let the chicken cross the road, so there was clearly something happening and obviously some sort of reason that this person was stopped in the road, and the driver behind them sped around and hit the chicken. that 100% could have been a pet or infant or child instead

      The woman who hit the chicken made the explicit decision to ignore the warnings that were evident, and still hit something. fucking abhorrent behaviour

    • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      I was taught by my driving instructor to not try and avoid smaller animals because swerving or sudden breaking would be more likely to result in a major accident than simply plowing through it. Whereas larger animals medium sized dog for example could lead to a wider accident if you hit them.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        7 days ago

        The driver was able to avoid the car stopped in the road to let the chicken cross. Instead of stopping behind them and waiting, they pulled out to cut around the stopped car.

        I see this kind of behaviour all the time in my neighbourhood, at a crosswalk with a “kids crossing” sign and curb barriers designed to keep people from cutting around on the right. If someone is stopped to make a left hand turn, they cut on the right anyway, and if someone is stopped to let a kid or an animal cross (animals cross there all the time), they cut on the left.

        People have been hit at that intersection. But people still keep doing it.

      • Soggy@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        You should be aware enough of traffic around you to know if slamming the brakes on presents a significant hazard. (And if you can’t react to an animal appearing in the road you’re likely driving too fast for the visibility and conditions)

        • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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          6 days ago

          Luckily I’ve never had to turn a cat inside out, but they frequently dart out infront of vehicles close enough that slamming on the breaks won’t do much even at low speed. I have a friend who’s cat died on a stretch of road that had a 30 km/h speed limit.

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            6 days ago

            One of the best reasons to keep cats indoors, but yeah I said “likely” because exceptions do exist.

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    lol, her expression says it all, “Worth it, 10/10 would mace that bitch again.”

    Might do a little jail time but the chicken killer will think twice next time. I mean, christ, you live in Key West. Get on island time already.

  • TuffNutzes@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    20 years ago I was driving on a 50mph road and there was this group of about 20 birds drinking water around a large puddle right on the side of the road.

    Something spooked them just in the moment that I was driving by them. In that split second, they all swarmed right in front of my vehicle smashed into the side and front. As I looked back in the mirror through the feathers floating in the air, I could see at least six or seven birds injured on the road behind me. It made me sick to my stomach and I still have this image in my head years later haunting me.

    I can’t imagine someone would do that on purpose.

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    It took me coming to the comments to notice that the word in the headline was chicken, not children. I was about to go OFF about those cops.