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Ricky

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Dwarf fortress in RL - cat haters edition
« on: October 20, 2010, 07:51:18 am »

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/mary-bale-fined-for-animal-cruelty-22526413

this lady released her inner dwarf and dumped a cat in a garbage can
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Re: Dwarf fortress in RL - cat haters edition
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2010, 08:59:36 am »

Old news, unless this is a different lady in CCTVland...

(Did not watch video...)
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2010, 09:30:01 am »

IMO, the whole thing was overexaggerated. She just put a cat in a bin. Cats are survivalists, they'll get out and live. It's not like she threw them in a river or kicked its head. I know a kid who cut the balls off a cat and made it run around panicking and bleeding. That's animal cruelty.

It's also nothing compared to DF, where the cats would not only be put in a bin, but they'd be drowned slowly in magma or skinned and eaten.
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Re: Dwarf fortress in RL - cat haters edition
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2010, 10:04:13 am »

You know we could really use the ability to store cats in bins...
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« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2010, 10:10:54 am »

Well.... bins are like cages... except without the oxygen holes.  But I'm sure a hole or 2 could be punched in...
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Re: Dwarf fortress in RL - cat haters edition
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2010, 04:24:12 pm »

IMO, the whole thing was overexaggerated. She just put a cat in a bin. Cats are survivalists, they'll get out and live.

No, no they won't. They can't get in a position to open the lid, and many cats wouldn't have the strength to. If nobody had heard it when they did (and they only heard it after 15 hours) it would have died. Just because there are worse acts of animal cruelty out there doesn't mean this wasn't deplorable.
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« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2010, 07:40:30 pm »

She's forever known over here as the evil cat lady. that is basically punishment enough in itself.
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« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2010, 05:09:04 pm »

I admit, I lol'd a little bit.
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