Do you have Catapult Killers near you?

BUDFORCE said:
When I worked in a sewage treatment plant there were a pair of swans that always used to go for me, even though I tried to give them a wide birth.

Even when I was on my John Deere then used to. The animal control guy has a little area on the edge of the plant, I used to talk to him now and then.

Anyway one occasion he had a .22 rifle on him, and we were talking next to one of the oxidisation ponds, and the swan was on it. I asked him to borrow the rifle and took a shot at this swan.

I missed, about 6 inches low and handed the rifle back.

Looking back now I'm pleased I did miss, lucky bloody swan though.
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They smell fear and weakness.

Minusorange said:
It certainly makes you question if there's any point trying to save the planet for future generations if these are the future generations
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Last one born before 2000 should just press the red button before they check out tbh.
 
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jaybee said:
I live near a river which has plenty of wildlife on it including swans and ducks. Over the last few years, we've had a massive rise in Catapult Killing youth, which target the swans and ducks in particular. The local community are really angry about this and the police have been involved at times. It has got to the point where people are talking about vigilantism on local facebook groups to try to tackle it. The youth have been filmed doing it but just wear hoodies and masks and run off into the woods or back home. Facebook groups takes down any posts about it to protect them from exposure when people take pictures or videos.

This daily mail article has some info in it about the rise of it.
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Hope you dont eat ducks then mate..... https://www.animaljusticeproject.com/campaigns/gressingham-duck-farms
 
jaybee said:
I live near a river which has plenty of wildlife on it including swans and ducks. Over the last few years, we've had a massive rise in Catapult Killing youth, which target the swans and ducks in particular. The local community are really angry about this and the police have been involved at times. It has got to the point where people are talking about vigilantism on local facebook groups to try to tackle it. The youth have been filmed doing it but just wear hoodies and masks and run off into the woods or back home. Facebook groups takes down any posts about it to protect them from exposure when people take pictures or videos.

This daily mail article has some info in it about the rise of it.
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Me and my mates all had black widows and used to shoot all kinds of stuff for petty vandalism.

We didn't shoot animals with them, doubt we were accurate enough, even if we wanted to.
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
180, my dude. I'm all for self-reflection and hyperbole at the same time.

Namaste.
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360 is a full circle, it's an obtuse way of saying they want something to "come full circle" -- your 180 correction is false.

Joking with the Hindu thing is funny and all but feels out of place in this instance.
 
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I remember a Roald Dahl story where the main antagonist was an adolescent thug going round killing swans. It certainly is nothing new.
Besides, young boys messing around with catapults and getting into trouble have been a British cultural staple in both media and real life for many decades - If these now get banned, what are the kids supposed to use instead? Instagram?
 
Didn't know catapults were still a thing with kids.

What people do these days just for abit of attention on social media :rolleyes:
 
ttaskmaster said:
I remember a Roald Dahl story where the main antagonist was an adolescent thug going round killing swans. It certainly is nothing new.
Besides, young boys messing around with catapults and getting into trouble have been a British cultural staple in both media and real life for many decades - If these now get banned, what are the kids supposed to use instead? Instagram?
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I was listening to a radio programme about the kids in Roald Dahl stories being extremely disturbing.

My favourite RD story was The Twits.

As for the yout killing animals is an example of how we have desensitised traumatic events and then we wonder why the temptation to do them is less stigmatising.

To get society back on track I think we're really going to have to crackdown with an iron fist. It's going to be brutal at the start.
 
people are so weird these days..

Back in the 90s when I was a teen we had pellet guns and catapults, it never even occurred to us that they could be used to kill animals.

we used to shoot street signs, cans and bottles, no one ever phoned the police either or moaned at us.


There was a guy killing cats here in one part of the city a few years back, open up the asylums.


No one ever attacks the wildlife in the local city park it seems, must be a rural thing
 
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arknor said:
people are so weird these days..

Back in the 90s when I was a teen we had pellet guns and catapults, it never even occurred to us that they could be used to kill animals.

we used to shoot street signs, cans and bottles, no one ever phoned the police either or moaned at us.
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Same with people. I seem to remember, back in my day at school, the kids all talked tough, but they rarely acted out their threats. And yet, dangerous stuff was far more available back in my day. I can remember raiding the local quarry for explosives and we kids would go blow stuff up. But no one or any animal ever got hurt. Well, apart from one kid who fell off a cliff. He was on fire at the time. Lucky for him the cliff ended in a lake so soft landing and put the flames out at the same time. See? No harm done. And we knew that if we got caught we would get a slap round the head. These days it would be childcare for life because the assumption would be that we were plotting a mass killing on a local school or something equally sick.
 
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