I'd say the fuckers who did this deserve to be killed.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005450117,00.html

Quote :

"STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait, The Sun can shockingly reveal. The cruel practice takes place on French-controlled Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, where Prince William spent two holidays. A six-month-old labrador pup was recently f ound ALIVE with a huge double hook through its snout - like the dog above - and another through a leg. The pup was found in a coastal creek and is thought to have somehow freed itself from a fishing line. But other dogs and kittens have been chomped up and swallowed by sharks. The RSPCA plans to petition the French government, demanding an end to the hideous torture."

Video:

http://uselessjunk.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2577&mode=nested&order=0&thold=-1

10/14/2005 12:15:57 AM

christ

10/14/2005 12:17:52 AM

God I hope my gf doesn't see this

but yeah, they should fucking die

10/14/2005 12:18:00 AM

According to snopes, it's not as widespread or tolerated as the news reports imply. And does anyone know what they're saying in the video?

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp

10/14/2005 12:33:01 AM

It wouldn't surprise me if it's been done by a few sickos (just like about anything else has been done by a few sickos), but that article is probably fake, indicated by the obviously fake picture they have. You really think a hook through the mouth would handle a dog being dragged by a boat?

okay, I just saw the vid, and I take that back about the fake pic...

[Edited on October 14, 2005 at 12:39 AM. Reason : but the rest stands]

10/14/2005 12:38:15 AM

it doesnt really bother me that much more than stupid fucking college students with pets that havent been spayed or neutered
the strays are just going to be destroyed

10/14/2005 12:49:22 AM

What bothers me is the physics of the whole thing. I seriously doubt the top lip of a dog can withstand the forces involved in being towed by a boat. Secondly, the hooks shown are pretty dang small if they are hunting anything large enough to eat that dog.

10/14/2005 1:35:28 AM

its not like they are skiing, i cant imagine that the boat will be going that fast

10/14/2005 1:38:27 AM

^^^ yes but I would much rather a dog be euthanized than gutted with fishooks and then dragged through the waters before being eaten by a shark.

10/14/2005 2:48:51 AM

yep

my gf saw this

10/14/2005 2:55:24 AM

you need population control one way or another

10/14/2005 2:57:37 AM

You know

Its getting pretty fucking annoying reading threads where you post JonHGuth because you seem to have a habit of disagreeing with the status quo in every single fucking one

10/14/2005 4:10:02 AM

rabble rabble

these people should be used as shark bait




rabble rabble

10/14/2005 4:58:19 AM

my sandsanta fan club is not annoying

10/14/2005 7:09:31 AM

while it makes me sad to think about this, my logical side says that if you can justify hooking a fish or a shark, you can just as easily justify hooking a dog.

Look, there are plenty of emotional and social reasons for saying this is terrible, but in truth, an animal is an animal is an animal. Now, emotional reasons, sure. If I saw anyone doing this I"d probably stop them myself. That doesn't mean that I logically think it's worse than baiting a fish or anything else.

Hell, they eat cats in some asian countries, and some people call that cruel. They call it lunch.

10/14/2005 7:17:58 AM

Quote :

"an animal is an animal is an animal."

a human is an animal is a human is an animal. Difference?

Sharks regularly eat fish, they don't normally eat dogs.

10/14/2005 7:44:28 AM

I agree that a human is an animal. I was just using what people always tell me, that animals are less important than people, to my advantage in the argument.

Also, I don't think fish normally eat nightcrawlers.

10/14/2005 8:49:33 AM

this is sad but how is this different that hooking up a fish?

10/14/2005 12:11:43 PM

I've got my gat, get the masks, lets do this.

10/14/2005 12:23:53 PM

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10/14/2005 3:15:49 PM

Dogs obviously have more complex thought processes than fish, just like those tool-using Gorillas have more complex though processes than dogs, and us car-driving humans have more complex thought processes than gorillas (only marginally for some of us).

From a circle-of-life perspective, this is business as usual, but from a civilized society perspective, it's pretty barbaric. We are drowning man's best friend, then feeding it to a shark. It's pretty gruesome.

10/14/2005 3:38:40 PM

uhm
"we" aren't doing anything

Quote :

" Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, "

it only matters because dogs mean so much here
who knows what the culture is like on reunion island

10/14/2005 4:03:34 PM