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oar
2007-07-04 12:23 am UTC (link)

So . . . am I missing something here? I mean, I'm assuming that these people just found a dead deer on the side of the road and took a picture with it. Weird and gross, but not OMG OUTRAGE. Dude, it's a dead animal. Most of those commenters probably eat dead animals every day. Chill the fuck out.

Unless they stop and hold a candlelight vigil over the corpse of every piece of roadkill that they pass on the highway.

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	circumstance 2007-07-04 12:33 am UTC (link)
	Yes, well, you know what they say about Earth Logic. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	benighted 2007-07-04 12:34 am UTC (link)
	IT IS NOT JUST ROADKILL. IT IS THE CORPSE OF A BEAUTIFUL DEER THAT USED TO PRANCE MERRILY IN FORESTS UNTIL IT TOOK A WRONG TURN AT A HIGHWAY AND SHOOK HANDS WITH A SEMI. brb, building shrine to that dead rabbit in closet (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	PRANCE MERRILY IN FORESTS UNTIL IT TOOK A WRONG TURN AT A HIGHWAY AND SHOOK HANDS WITH A SEMI nefret 2007-07-04 12:56 am UTC (link)
	snorts beer all over keyboard I'd say the photo is really kind of disgusting, and why on earth would you want to get that close to roadkill, but... Assholes? Disrespectful? Panty crickets? NECROPHILIA?? Um, right. I better go take Bambi off the bbq right now. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	irised 2007-07-04 12:59 am UTC (link)
	Buahahahahahaa!! Shook hands with a semi ... I gotta remember that. I don't know what they're all on about, obviously that girl is just embracing the deer with her thighs in order to celebrate the unity of life. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2007-07-04 05:25 am UTC (link)
	SHOOK HANDS WITH A SEMI. Can't. Stop. Laughing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rachel_pi 2007-07-04 09:02 pm UTC (link)
	IT TOOK A WRONG TURN AT A HIGHWAY AND SHOOK HANDS WITH A SEMI I'm glad I instituted the "no drinking around laptops" rule, or else I would have ruined another one at that. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	onaga 2007-07-04 01:33 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, it's pretty obviously just roadkill. One wonders what these commenters think of those pictures of hunters posing with their kills. I guess they'd run out of invective and just furiously bang on the keyboard. (Reply to this)(Parent)

So much OT rambling ahead...

lizzypaul
2007-07-04 05:20 am UTC (link)

Unless they stop and hold a candlelight vigil over the corpse of every piece of roadkill that they pass on the highway.

True story:

I used to live in a very rural area, where it was not uncommon for giant wild boar (and other wildlife) to frolic on the main road. Pain in the ass because if you hit one, that was pretty much the end of your vehicle, but there would be dead boar carcasses all over, especially during grape season.

One day, I'm driving back home and I see a large group of people standing around a dead pig with flashlights, all in a circle, several of them with these large rain ponchos on. It looked like a movie version of some creepy pagan ritual, and my first thought was, "THEY'RE TRYING TO BRING THE PIG BACK TO LIFE OMG." (Come on, it was midnight, I was tired.)

Later, I asked my dad (a cop in the area) if he knew what was going on. Turned out it was a group of young adults from Berkeley (where else?) who had hit the pig with their bus and were apologizing...and they were in the process of cutting up the pig to use the meat (I guess so the pig didn't die for nothing?) when one of the local cops stopped and asked what was going on.

Moral: people from Berkeley are fucking weird.

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	Re: So much OT rambling ahead... smo 2007-07-04 05:26 am UTC (link)
	Not all of us. And not all in the same way. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: So much OT rambling ahead... lizzypaul 2007-07-04 05:33 am UTC (link)
	But I enjoy making stereotypes based on crazy people I see stopped along the highway! (No, I know y'all aren't all crazy. Though I do think driving in Berkeley is enough to make anyone nuts.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: So much OT rambling ahead... smo 2007-07-04 05:37 am UTC (link)
	But surely you won't deny me my Berkeleyan right to get all worked up about something that's not a big deal! (That's true of driving in the Bay Area in general, sadly. Everyone's off in their own little world.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: So much OT rambling ahead... greenling 2007-07-06 07:03 am UTC (link)
	cutting up the pig to use the meat (I guess so the pig didn't die for nothing?) It's free food, man, if you've got the time... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nightfalltwen 2007-07-04 09:27 pm UTC (link)
	I think the outrage is that people think that the couple in the photo hit the deer themselves? And then posed with it? No idea. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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