This started out as a "Not Happy" thread post that kinda got away from me. I hope @John-Wayne doesn't mind me using his quote as the epigraph, if it's a problem, let me know and I'll remove it.
I've been watching a lot of restoration videos lately, where people buy old semi-junked machinery and tools at swap meets and flea markets and restore it to new or better-than-new condition. I find it relaxing.
But youtube thinks it's related to trapping mice. Kept suggesting mousetrap, rat trap videos until I finally broke down and watched one.
Rats and mice are pests. They can be a health hazard. The idea of live-trapping them and releasing them into the countryside to be owl-food as God intended is impractical.
I recognize these facts.
But the way the poster had rigged up a stun-gun to a coil of wire inside a cage they could get into and not out of, and the terrified hopping about as they sought to avoid the pain, the desperate squeaking, the twitching and spasming as their bodies finally completed the circuit, the flames that began to spring from one little beasty's paw, none of this horrified me as much as the comments section...
...where the braying crowd, unprompted, denigrated animal rights activists and vegetarians and recommended points of particular agony with lip-smacking glee.
When I'm dictator, we'll bring back the gladiatorial games, but there'll be no TV or internet broadcast.
Live audience only.
And the "performers" will be chosen by lottery from the ticketholders.
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