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- From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Ayn Rand Gives Me a Boner)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,talk.politics.animals,alt.peeves
- Subject: The Squirrel Incident
- Followup-To: talk.bizarre,talk.politics.animals,alt.peeves
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 19:54:32 GMT
- Organization: PETA (People for the Evisceration of Tiresome Activists)
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- I had just turned onto my street the other night when I caught movement out
- of the corner of my eye. A fraction of a second later, I realized that it
- was a squirrel. And wouldn't you know it, the thing suddenly bolted across
- the street directly into the path of my car.
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- I could've easily missed the dumb little fleabag, but I'd been giving a lot
- of thought to the recent talk about animals welfare, so I decided to take an enlightened, positive approach. Wanting to do my bit for the gene pool, I
- impulsively jerked the wheel to the right.
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- The effect was quite similar to that of stomping on a ketchup packet. That
- would've been amusing enough -- the pickup was due for a wash anyway -- but
- as a special, added attraction, the resulting linear explosion of gore,
- half-digested acorns and ruptured entrails had terminated against the left
- rear door of my neighbor's new white 5-series BMW.
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- Alexander Calder would've been proud.
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- Fortunately, it being rather late, I had time to go back with a camera and
- strobe attachment before he discovered my handiwork. I even had time to
- pick up the flattened remains by the tail and place them gently under the
- Bimmer's driver-side windshield wiper.
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- It wasn't until early the next morning that I was gently coaxed from my
- slumber by a bellow of outrage from down the street.
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- Geoff
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- "I want a T-shirt that says "Test cosmetics on animals" on the front,
- and "Kill animals and eat them" on the back. Actually, I think the
- most amusing part of it is the moral horror attached to bestiality.
- So, it's all right to kill them and eat them, but it's evil beyond
- imagining to *sleep* with them?" -- Paul Crowley
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