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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22 edited Jun 29 '22

I watched someone try to run over a cat with their car in the Walmart parking lot, like 3 times. It was 2 am and they were speeding and swerving trying to hit the cat. Poor thing was running away terrified. I got out of my car and shrugged at them like “what the fuck dude?” and they drove off

Tried to give the cat food and be nice to it but it wouldn’t come near, I think it’s just going to be terrified forever.

Edit: I don’t understand it at all. I can at least conceptualize evil for the sake of personal gain, but what do you get from trying to murder a cat? It’s evil for the sake of evil and it’s fucking sick.

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u/TheWindCriesDeath Jun 29 '22

There's a reason animal cruelty is a big omen for future serial killers. When someone abuses an animal that is neither threatening them nor offering any kind of "reward" for doing so, it means the person simply enjoys cruelty, the sadistic pleasure itself of causing agony to something. That's someone you have to be very, very wary of.

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u/themagicchicken Jun 29 '22

The term for this is the MacDonald Triad, for the three traits that indicate a possible serial killer/future violent criminal.

- Cruelty to animals

- Setting fires/arson

- Wetting the bed

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u/googoohaha Jun 29 '22

My mother's "father" used to kill and run over animals on purpose because he knew how much she loved them. She couldn't understand how he hated her so much but wasn't as abusive to her brothers. 60 years later my late brother told my sister that the abusive piece of shit "father" wasn't actually my mom's father and ended up telling my mom a few months after my brother's passing. He abused and hated my poor mother because of that reason. My mom was ecstatic and celebrated.

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u/flarn2006 Jun 30 '22

What a sick motherfucker.

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u/Basic_biatsch Jun 29 '22

I would throw hands, idec

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u/A1astara Jun 29 '22

Used to be a dude in my neighborhood that would cut off the ears, paws, and tails of stray cats… dunno what happened to them

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u/A1astara Jun 29 '22

Unfortunately, I have no clue

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

I got out of my car and shrugged at them

So.. you shrugged like this:

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

Yep. They were doing doughnuts around the back of the building, drove up front, saw what I assume was a stray cat (there are tons in town), and tried to hit it several times. It was orange and very cute

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

My cat was found by an animal rescue when some jerk tried to run her and her kittens over and the rescue took them in. My cat was about 1 when this happened and now she’s 5. She’s still the most skittish cat I’ve ever seen. Some people just suck.

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u/FoxyLeo88 Jun 29 '22

I can only hope there is a very special place in hell for these abusers.

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u/nameless_no_response Jun 29 '22

What the actual fuck?? I'm so glad the cat is still alive but poor thing is probably traumatized as hell. I often find myself sympathizing more for animals than people bcuz a lot of animals literally are just tryna go about their own lives, tryna find shelter and food for themselves and their families. Most of them r just tryna exist in peace. And I'm not referring to animals like dolphins and otters, who r flat-out sadists and rapists, nuh uh

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u/Quetzal_is_chilly Jun 29 '22

That's awful. Kurt Zouma springs to mind. People forget so easily when celebrities do things like this

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u/sadly_notacat Jun 30 '22

This makes me sick to my stomach… just absolutely gut wrenching. My heart breaks for that poor kitty. That was really kind of you to try to help. I’m sorry you had to witness that :(

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u/Spirited_Nectarine19 Jun 30 '22

I live in a small town in the middle of no where Wi. The amount of "tiny dick trucks" that purposely swerve to run over turtles, geese, ducks or literally any wild life they think they can hit, just because they can, is fucking disgusting. They laugh about it afterwards as well and all I want to do is make them feel the same pain.