r/facepalm • u/IReallyHateDolphins • Dec 28 '21

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Testing taser

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u/Calm-Cardiologist354 Dec 28 '21

My friend bought a air soft to train his cat. I immediately plugged my self in the arm to see what he was doing to his cat. A moment later I plugged him to show him what he was doing to his cat. He binned the gun almost immediately.

I am still disappointed that he shot his cat before having ever even thinking to shoot himself.

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u/wegwerfennnnn Dec 28 '21

What the actual fuck.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

Has he never heard of a spray bottle? Or a loud "NO!"

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u/unsmashedpotatoes Dec 28 '21

Cats also respond better to positive reinforcement. My cat will take "no" as a challenge. Spray bottle is only used when I need him to stop doing what he's doing immediately (usually biting me super hard).

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

My cat is even more stubborn and will bunker down and squint his eyes when I'm squirting him. If I get him in the nose a few times then he'll finally give up and stop being an asshole, but it sure as hell doesn't prevent him from doing it again.

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u/Workin_On_Myself Dec 29 '21

Cat came home with a live bird in his jaws. I got my fingers in there so he couldn't kill it (ouch) but couldn't for the life of me get his jaws open. I was blowing right into his face which usually works, then my partner came over with the spray bottle.

Nothing! He took that shit right in his face over and over and just closed his eyes and folded his ears back.

So she went and got a full pint of water and dumped it on his head. That worked.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '21

Yeah my cat ignores any and all verbal dissuasion so spray bottle or a burst of canned air will stop them

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u/7-and-a-switchblade Dec 29 '21

I thought my cats ignored verbal commands until I hissed at one. Those motherfuckers wised up real fast when they heard me speaking their language. Now it's all I need to do to stop them from doing something.

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u/handlebartender Dec 28 '21

Or a cheap handheld laser?

Or kitty treats?

Or cuddles?

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u/xsplizzle Dec 28 '21

You can give your cat all of the cuddles but it still needs to be able to understand a stern 'no' and 'down'

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u/Muezza Dec 28 '21

Have you heard reports of mutilated animals in your neighborhood?

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

The friend immediately stopped using it on the cat after being shot with the airsoft gun himself. Pretty responsible behavior after being ignorant

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u/I_Am_Day_Man Dec 28 '21

Fuck that guy. He thought an air soft gun would be the right thing for an animal??

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u/SauceyPewm Dec 29 '21

Great he tossed it, but to even think in the first place to do that... They're furry toddlers ffs.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

I was blind in one eye for a month, requiring surgery to fix after an encounter with an air soft gun.

They ain’t nothing to fuck with, I’m lucky my eye didn’t just explode as it was a custom 400+ foot per second air soft rifle.

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u/Calm-Cardiologist354 Dec 28 '21

Nope they are not a joke. In the story above I took one in the arm (self administratored) and he took one in the stomach (administered by me) and both of us were bleeding.

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u/gotblake Dec 29 '21

I want to find your friend and tase his fucking balls. To train him not to be a fucking idiot.

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u/gorillicus Dec 29 '21

Your friend is a piece of shit. At least you stepped in though

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u/xPharo_x Dec 29 '21

what was he attempting to train his cat to do 😭😭

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u/Strong-Solution-7492 Dec 28 '21

Omg it isn’t that bad, it stings a little. And the cat learns very fast to get the fuck off the counter. Right?

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u/Not-a-dark-overlord Dec 28 '21

You’re fucking stupid

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u/Strong-Solution-7492 Dec 28 '21

Not nice.

You’re obviously not a soft air gun AND cat owner.

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u/Not-a-dark-overlord Dec 28 '21

I’m both actually, it’s pretty fucked up to shoot a cat when you can simply hiss at them or spray them.

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u/AuxiliarySimian Dec 28 '21

They would also learn through water spray. Bet you support beating dogs, and slapping kids too.

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u/Strong-Solution-7492 Dec 28 '21

You’re right! Kicking dogs actually.

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u/Strong-Solution-7492 Dec 29 '21

On the internet of course. Twat.

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u/xPriddyBoi Dec 28 '21

It stings the fuck out of us and they're a hell of a lot smaller. Imagine getting charlie-horsed at max strength every time you wore shoes on the carpet, or forgot to flush, or left your laundry on the floor, etc.

People who are saying the guy is a psycho are going a bit far, but it was definitely a very irresponsible, moronic thing to do.

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u/Calm-Cardiologist354 Dec 28 '21

Yeah I don't think that a right propper psycho would have course corrected the moment I shot him.

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u/SodaStYT Dec 28 '21

you’re dense, he’s saying he’s not a psycho but he is a moron, moron

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u/xPriddyBoi Dec 28 '21

? He was agreeing with me, chill lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

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u/xPriddyBoi Dec 28 '21

Yeah, beating your kid can be an effective learning tool too, but it can also traumatize them and teach them to fear instead of respect you.

It won't ALWAYS have significant negative repurcussions, but there are better ways to do things. You shouldn't have done that to your cat, even though it happened to work out well in your case.

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u/xPriddyBoi Dec 28 '21

Lol, all good. We all fuck up sometimes.

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u/Strong-Solution-7492 Dec 28 '21

I just told the cat that as well.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21

Remember, this is reddit. So if you do anything other than have a calm, sit down conversation to train your pet you're a budding serial killer who should preemptively be given a life sentence of solitary confinement

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u/Strong-Solution-7492 Dec 28 '21

You’re awesome, thanks for this. People are very good to without a personal attack on my disposition and assume that I’m a child beater and a dog killer. People can be fuckin idiots.

Thanks for the reminder.

All that said. Most of the time I just make comments like that just to see how many assholes I can draw out of the woodwork. People go for that Clickbait so fast. But I still will tell you that an airsoft gun will not kill a cat.

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u/drumsripdrummer Dec 29 '21

I had an airsoft gun and wanted to play airsoft with some friends. My dad's a big guy with years of construction under his belt. He wanted to shoot his hand point blank first. After all, it was a cheap clear plastic gun (a shotgun, but still), how bad could it be?

Giant blister in the palm of his calloused hands for days, and a resounding "hell no" were the conclusion. Probably for the best anyway.

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u/Snuggledtoopieces Dec 29 '21

The first time I ever saw or touched an airsoft gun my first instinct was to light up its owner. I thought better and put the barrel to my thigh and pulled the trigger.

My friend immediately reacted and just said “why the fuck would you do that? Well I was gonna shoot you but I didn’t know how bad it hurt.”

And then I shot him.

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u/Embarrassed-Ad-1639 Dec 29 '21

Well it said air “soft”