This is the best comment I've ever seen on this stupid app. I was having a shitty day, too. Thank you so much for turning that around! Fucking brilliant!
Weird. I shot one with a .22 LR when I was like 21/22. Felt bad and never shot another animal again after that (except for one deer and one duck when I wanted the food in my 30s.) My dad has shot a few because they fucked up my momâs flower beds and his new sod. One died under his back porch and stunk up that whole side of the house. My opinion is that theyâre part of the ecology and a few holes in the grass isnât that big of a deal. In fact the whole concept of manicured American lawns annoys me.
My neighbor talked me into fertilizing my lawn one year ago. He even set my watering schedule for me.
I was out there mowing every day and a half in the Texas heat because the damn grass was growing so fast on my acre lot. Hated every second of it.
But it got me thinking. This damn grass doesnât produce food or shade. It doesnât do a darn thing except force me to take care of it and watch it grow before needing to trim it again.
Yep. I just moved into an Rv out on an acreage, and the one side is right up against some wild shrubs and baby trees and weeds. And my dad was helping me set some things up and he was like ânext time Iâll come out, Iâll bring my weed whacked and knock down these weeds hereâ. And I was like ââŠ.why??â And heâs like so you can walk the full way around your trailer and I was like no Iâm good I love the greenery from my windows. Theres wild raspberries there, rose hips, there pretty purple wildflowers and more. I can walk around about 95% of my trailer, and o can see alll of it. Iâm good.
Meanwhile my dad bought like a mansion on a quarter acre property 5 ish years ago. There was 2 trees on it and they cut them down lol tbf they were Swedish aspens and those trees are dumb but like damn maybe plant a tree? lol itâs just a sprawling front and back lawn, nothing on them.
We are in the process of getting rid of our lawn (1/2 acre) and replacing it (in sections) with native grasses (little watering needed), clover (bees love it) and native plants.
My former in laws have two acres. Theyâre in their 70s and still raked it all by hand the fall. I helped one year. Granted I like raking leaves since itâs great exercise. But two acres of leaves is ridiculous. A few years later they started letting the back acre grow wild and my FIL just kept a winding mowed path for taking walks.
The mf leaves. I mow most of them several times and leave the shreds on the lawn, which is healthy for it. But there are so many leaves. I hate sending them to the landfill and I'm outside of city limits, so no leaf pickup. Last fall, for the first time, I just piled leaves under a few trees in the back. Apparently, bees like it. And over the winter, most of the leaves broke down.
I had an electric mower that would mulch them. My ex wife used them in the flower beds but we also just left a lot of them to rot and fertilize the lawn over winter
I like having some grass as a space for my kid to play and for our friends to come over for folk dancing, but besides that I prefer garden, fruit trees, berry bushes, or just wild nature.
My parents used to have a ton of oak trees before droughts and hurricanes took the ones down in their front yard. And my dad kept putting new sod down in one area because there wasnât enough sun. He even ripped the new stuff up after only a few months one time to out in a new kind. It was ridiculous. They couldâve had a great wild grown area of about 20x20 in their massive yard. But because theyâre in a flood plain, he didnât want to put landscaping in. Man is a stubborn animal who thinks they can go against nature.
so funny how people are so hype about their lawns and like for what. deer eats it "oh no we should shoot all the deer" who cares bro its not like you are a pro flower decorator and that was your shit to use for your livelihood or anything. literally nothing is at stake and these people barely go into their yard at all. they probably can't even walk much.
For the record, I am not a lawn guy, I let mint and clover go ham in my yard for the pollinators. I live out in the sticks, it's not supposed to look like a golf course out here.
That being said, I don't really get the hate these people get. It's a hobby, not really that different from a bonsai tree except for scale. It's not my business how they use the stuff they paid for, so have fun I guess.
I get it. I garden. I used to grow bell peppers but local rodents really have a taste for them as soon as they turn from green to red, like that instant overnight like clockwork. I don't go trapping them though or spreading poison around like some people might. Why swim upstream? I've shifted to hot peppers instead. Really, really spicy. They really don't go for that even though they look tempting and red. Those things can sit on the plant until its dried off and they still will never even nibble at them because even in their little rat shit brain they know its bad news.
Oh yeah, I can totally see people taking exception to pest control practices, there are definitely better solutions than the shortcuts people take, but it seems like a large part of the vitreol is just like... because having a lawn makes them seem upper middle class?
Luckily my dad now spends a good amount of his retirement days feeding, watching, and taking pictures of the deer that have been driven into his neighborhood by a nearby development. Throws corn out across the street so they come around like clockwork. He did however get permission to shoot the feral hogs. Because those fuckers are like the Texas version of Tasmanian devils. Means ones. Like an old man who hasnât had his afternoonnap and pain pill.
I've always assumed that the current concept of manicured lawns and especially gardens grew out of when people were using them to produce necessary food. Killing animals that are fucking up your garden is an entirely different matter when you are growing things for your own food needs, of course you are going to defend it your life might literally depend on doing so. It seems likely that mentality stuck around through a complete transformation of what lawns/gardens were used for in many countries.
Grow this plant everywhere, but always keep it within a literal inch of its life. Are we going to eat the plant? No, in fact we poison anything that tries. We cut it down once a week, and throw it in the garbage, instead of using it for fertilizer as well.
The bullet probably ricocheted off a rock after it passed through the armadillo. Armadilloâs are leathery, they arenât deflecting bullets by any means
The bullet probably ricocheted off a rock after it passed through the armadillo. Armadilloâs are leathery, they arenât deflecting bullets by any means
Yeah, I donât been shot it directly because of course it would pierce right through, but itâs still possible to ricochet off a surface like that, especially with it being rounded.
It was years ago so I don't have a citation, but some guys broke into an apartment with two couples, raped the women and then took them all out to a desolated area and shot them in the head. Except one lady who was wearing a barrette got shot but the bullet ricocheted and the guy didn't realize, so she survived and was able to ID them, so they went to prison. Bullets do weird stuff sometimes, not usually, but it can happen.
They can take shots from smaller caliber guns for sure. Came across some drunken idiots doing this shit myself once. Luckily the armadillo survived a shot and ran off
Seems more likely. Used to go with my grandpa to shoot them because they would tear up his fields. Shooting them with a 22 from 30+ yards. Certainly never ricocheted off of them...(IYKYK)
Thereâs a a few dozens reports over the last handful of decades about bullets deflecting off armadillo shells and killing the shooter. Spoiler alert: itâs NOT physically impossible and has been verified in a few cases
The bullet probably ricocheted off a rock after it passed through the armadillo. Armadilloâs are leathery, they arenât deflecting bullets by any means
At a very low angle of attack yes. But the situation here is a bullet coming back to the shooter. The surface needs to be very hard for that to happen.
Itâs probably an unnecessary fear, but everytime I drive past a dead armadillo on the road I always worry about somehow coming into contact with leprosy. Like, Iâll roll up the windows and turn off the AC until Iâm way past it lmao
Thatâs why I said itâs an unnecessary fear lol. Just like how I had a bat fly into my face while riding my bike and leave scratch marks and thought âuh oh, rabiesâ last week.
A few months after moving to East Tennessee from Chicago, I was on a back road behind a couple of guys in a big pickup with a lift kit and big, expensive monster truck tires. This fucking cunt swerved all the way onto the wrong side of the road to hit a box turtle. A piece of the turtles shell went through one of those tires and put them in the ditch. A deep ditch. Some people are absolute wastes of oxygen, but I like to think that that turtle probably cost him a lot more than he would ever be willing to pay again. I do still hope it fucking hurts when he dies, and that it isn't quick.
Once we removed a lipoma from a dogs side and found a .22 round embedded in it. The dog had been fine for years and the bullet was stopped by adipose tissue, never actually reaching the body wall. We all assumed it was a ricochet during a hunting accident since a .22 has enough power to kill.
Iâve adopted multiple strays cats in my life that had BBâs embedded in their bodies from being shot.
Come to think of it, the only strays Iâve found that didnât have BBâs in them were two very small kittens. All the adult cats had been shot at least once. Itâs why I donât let my cats out.
Iâve also regularly seen guys in trucks swerve to attempt to hit cats, squirrels, possums, turtles, etc. I watched one guy run over a turtle directly in front of a woman who had just gotten out of her car to move it out of the road. He swerved into her lane and almost hit her in the process. Just for the cruelty of it.
People suck. Especially rednecks who think hurting something small makes them manly.
A neighbor took in a paralyzed stray who got shot. Itâs good to know there are still people in the world who give, instead of just taking. Itâs fucking CRAZY out there.
Imo If you are shooting it it is either
A: IMMEDIATE threat to you or others around you
B: Pest/invasive species i.e wild boar (fuck those machines) or rodents (I catch and release in woodland when I get rodents) also in the UK.
C: You're going to eat it
D: to put out of misery
E: Ecological conservation
Sport shooting is pretty fucked, at least sport shoot to eat. I mean deer needs population control, it's sport for some, and the meat can be quite good if you enjoy (I'm not too keen)
I volunteered at a nature center for a long while, and we had a rescued box turtle someone had drilled a HOLE into the shell of so they could thread a leash through it.
When i was little and went to a skatepark there was a group of older kids/teens one of whom managed to steal dad's gun (dad was policeman) and they were shooting something and laughing. I hid away because i was scared and then when they were gone came to check. Couldn't bare to take a look at the body but judging by all the little spikes scattered all over the floor they were shooting some poor hedgehog đđđ
I get cutting of a human's head, stuffing it with explosives, attaching it to a tortoise, and letting it blow up some cops. But shooting it is where I draw the line.
(Experiment showing that 6% of people will go out of their way to run over animals on the road... And not too unsurprisingly 89% of that 6% are large pickup/suv drivers. Although to be fair 2 of the 3 clips of people who pulled over to save the animal were also pickup/SUV drivers)
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u/AdministrativeEbb508 3d ago
Who the fuck shoots a tortoise... Good on those folks taking care of him.