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by "Cute little puppy, huh?" Those were the words uttered by a US Marine before tossing a yelping puppy over a cliff and laughing as it hit the bottom. Another marine who took video of the incident was overheard chuckling while saying, "That was mean."
The video was posted to YouTube and circulated virally before being removed. It's disappearance did not stop the outrage expressed over the lance corporal's mistreatment of the animal. Because the marine's name was spoken on the clip, his family at home was already tracked down and received so many death threats since Monday that they disconnected their phone. A behavior and psychiatric professor at Stanford describes the stresses that may lead to such behavior, "You're constantly confronting those fears and one of the ways to confront that may be by showing you're the one that renders other creatures helpless. The thought is that 'I'm not the one who gets thrown off a cliff, I'm the one doing it." Thus far, the marines have launched a formal investigation and the press spokesman laments, "Certainly, there's a lot of outrage, and a lot of people are upset about it. I think every Marine is upset about this video."
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A behavior and psychiatric professor at Stanford describes the stresses that may lead to such behavior, "You're constantly confronting those fears and one of the ways to confront that may be by showing you're the one that renders other creatures helpless. The thought is that 'I'm not the one who gets thrown off a cliff, I'm the one doing it."
Ok, so it's not that maybe this Marine is just a douchebag, it's because of the war. Show of hands: how many of us O-Nerds who went to war and lived daily under the threat of mortar/rocket attacks or getting blown up by IED/VBIEDs mistreated animals?
Not me. Strangely, our FOB was remarkably barren of critters. I think I saw a few cats once but they scurried away into the darkness and I never saw them again. And I certainly didn't abuse my pets (or family) when I returned either.
As a matter of fact, I friend of mine is over there right now that befriended a puppy they found on their Iraqi compound. He's actually pissed that he'll probably have to take pictures of himself with the puppy off his page before fanatics start "interpreting" them as some kind of pre-torture.
Another friend of mine even had a pet rat that lived near his building. He enjoyed trying to get the rat to come out from hiding just for the sake of having some sort of animal companionship.
On another tour a friend was telling me about a random horse that showed up on their FOB that everyone thought was pretty cool.
Our mechanics had a dog, the detainee camp had a dog (who was the laziest, yet smartest dog ever-- he would walk five feet and nap but would bolt for cover a minute before mortars would come in) and I had a goat. No abuse anywhere.
Just because you enjoyed pushing the goat through the fence doesn't mean the goat enjoyed being pushed through the fence. ;-)
Listen, the Goat and I were just friends. What is it with people casting aspersions on the beautiful friendship the Goat and I shared? Although a buddy did make a make a music video of the Goat and I sharing quality time set to the song "Love of a Lifetime." Sadly (and seriously) when we had to move to the detainee camp we couldn't take Goat with us, so we gave him back to the Iraqi family we originally bought him from. They ate him for Eid. The Goat was really almost a dog personality and temperament -wise, as well as surprisingly smart. He loved raisins and Oreos, and if you fed him those he acted like a crackhead getting a hit. Now I'm getting all misty eyed.
Aren't there teens in suburbia doing similar evils? What's the trauma excuse for them?
what if it wasn't a dog thrown off a cliff, but a poisonous snake? Do you think there would be such a stink?
what if it wasn't a dog thrown off a cliff, but a poisonous snake? Do you think there would be such a stink?
It's funny how people only care when it's cute.
FIRST OFF, ALL THE STUPID IGNORANT ARTICLES THAT ARE STATING THE SAME CRAP "WE CANT DETERMINE IF THE PUPPY WAS REAL OR NOT", I FIND VERY DISTURBING. APPARENTLY, DENYING THE FACTS IS ALOT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO SLEEP AT NIGHTS. I MUST SAY THIS THOUGH,.I DO HOPE THAT THE LUCKY PERSON THAT GETS THEIR HANDS ON HIM TIE HIM BY HIS FEET AND FLING HIM OFF A CLIFF. :) PERHAPS THE REST OF THE WORLD INCLUDING MYSELF WOULD FEEL ALOT BETTER. AND PROBABLY SLEEP BETTER TONITE TOO.
KARMA IS NO S$%T TO MESS WITH. L.
Just curious - are you an atheist?
Yes, yes. We must reduce world stress and sleep depravation. Let's bake-to-death every human who has fried ants with a magnifying glass, dehydrate-to-death all who have salted slugs, and send every hunter to the firing squad.
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Not sure every marine is upset... by Anonymous :: NR0 :: on 06 March 2008
... I am sure somehow the marine culture encourages this sort of behavior... I remember the story of a drill seargent sucking the eyeballs of a rabbit... and the underlying assumption was: "what a cool, bad-a$$ guy he was"...
Speaks volumes of the civ-mil gap. It would be interesting to see if these marines will be punished more severely than the Abu-Ghraib misguided souls and the one marine who got drunk, drove, and killed a Romanian rock-star.
RE: Not sure every marine is upset... by VnutZ :: NR8 :: on 06 March 2008
Romania had a rock star?
RE: Not sure every marine is upset... by Anonymous :: NR0 :: on 06 March 2008
Just one.... and is now dead.... thanks to that jack-a$$...
RE: Not sure every marine is upset... by ldsudduth :: NR7 :: on 07 March 2008
Romania had a rock star?
Obviously you never heard this song..
But I like this version better.