Are animals suicidal?

wishstang · 04-06-2001, 03:49 PM

man this was weird. i just got back from bowling tournaments and my dad picked me up in his 94 accord. we start going home and a rabbit is on the road. we slow down and honk the horn and just then the dumb rabbit runs right at us! it stayed alive because of what my dad said. he said hondas have a unibody thing underneath. still though. did this rabbit have a death wish? i mean we were going about 10mph and we were about 40 feet away and it just came running right at us. WEIRD.

04-06-2001, 06:11 PM

I don't think he was suicidal, just disoriented. You see that with lots of animals that run across the street. Mind you, a rabbit is operating with a brain roughly the size of a walnut. They're not too bright!

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NoSlow5.0 · 04-06-2001, 06:26 PM

Thats right. Animal's don't have the higher level of cognitive functioning that is needed to recognize a situation as being so horrible in one or more aspects that taking ones life is a justifiable meens to an end. Excluding humans of course, and possibaly dolphins

In other words. The're too stupid to intentionally try and end their life. There natural instinct is survival, and that instinct is so strong that it can't be overriden.

While we're on the subject, i have a bad a$$ video of a jack rabbit getting creamed by a Mercedes race car. It is Awsome!
Light Em Up!!

[This message has been edited by NoSlow5.0 (edited 04-06-2001).]

84_GT350 · 04-06-2001, 06:32 PM

I dunno man...I've seen animals do some crazy sh!t. We had this cat once that would saunter around the garage normally until we closed the door...then he'd wait a second and run out right as the door was almost on the ground. Once he even got caught under the door and when I scrambled to let the door back up he seemed pissed at me. He met his demise under the wheels of our old station wagon. He was laying right under the rear wheels. Now..when a car starts most animals run away. Makes you wonder.

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GTGrl00 · 04-06-2001, 06:35 PM

Quote:

While we're on the subject, i have a bad a$$ video of a jack rabbit getting creamed by a Mercedes race car.
It is Awsome!

lol...we could always count on Jon, to make light of a subject..hey I'm just kidding =), hope there are no animal activist on this forum, tho'. =D

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dinomite · 04-06-2001, 06:44 PM

I saw that video! Its crazy, that rabbit just darts across the track directly in front of the car. It almost made it, but the car was movin fast, so it took out the bumper cover and the rabbit was obliterated.

wishstang · 04-06-2001, 06:53 PM

yeah i have that video. i will post it.

wishstang · 04-06-2001, 07:25 PM

here are the videos of that rabbit and other videos of cars flipping. http://forums.roadandtrack.com/ubb/F...ML/000111.html
ENJOY!

04-06-2001, 09:14 PM

Supposidely humans are the only animal that will take its own life. Then again, what do use humans know

wishstang · 04-06-2001, 09:31 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Capri306 · 04-07-2001, 01:17 AM

That's kinda funny this topic came up. I was going to start one asking if Robins were suicidal. I've smacked at least a dozen because the damn birds must think they're faster than me (had to be eating rice, I guess...). They'd fly in front of me out of nowhere, then TURN and go the same direction I was heading! SMACK! Stupid little bastards, could be the Lake Erie water around here, too.

'Bout as bad as when deer jump out and just stop and stare at you. Are they thinking, "oh, gee, headlights! Cool!!!!!!" or what!?!?!?!?!?!

That poor (stupid) widdle wabbit.....

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1987 Mustang LX Notch

wishstang · 04-07-2001, 09:37 AM

i have proof animals are suicidal. i mean how does a dove fly into randy johnsons 100mph fastball and get hit by it? LOL

WHITECOBRAGIRL94 · 04-07-2001, 12:46 PM

I ran straight into a bat
last week. It was still alive
when John took it off my car.
I was following him home in
the Cobra and the dang bat
hit the windshield and slid
down behind the wipers and
stayed there. Occasionally it
would stick a wing up in the
air.

I don't think animals are
suicidal, just some don't
know what to think of
vehicles and others act like
macho animals and stand in
the road waiting on ya, like
dogs.

HemiBoo · 04-07-2001, 09:26 PM

Those video clips were awsome. Those fiats went soaring through the air.

I don't think animals are suicidal, just stupid (Gee George, look at the bright lights...kerpowie)

91LX2Bfast · 04-07-2001, 09:59 PM

Wanna know whats sick? I am. I just watched that video of the rabbit getting obliterated like 10 times frame by frame untill I realized how sick that was. Ohh well, thats morbid curiosity for you.

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wishstang · 04-08-2001, 08:53 AM

yeah i did that too. he almost made it but splat. my teacher said that a guy in a nearby city hit a 6 year old girl with his car and didnt even know it till he got home and saw the body stuck to his grille. they literally had to peel her off.

NoSlow5.0 · 04-09-2001, 11:45 AM

If you watch the jack rabbit vid closely it looks like the rabbit's skin goes one way and the rest of it goes another. I could watch that all day, it is just too cool. Thanks Mandy, what else am i good for?

Light Em Up!!

04-06-2001, 03:49 PM	#1
wishstang Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: in northwest ohio Posts: 16	Are animals suicidal? man this was weird. i just got back from bowling tournaments and my dad picked me up in his 94 accord. we start going home and a rabbit is on the road. we slow down and honk the horn and just then the dumb rabbit runs right at us! it stayed alive because of what my dad said. he said hondas have a unibody thing underneath. still though. did this rabbit have a death wish? i mean we were going about 10mph and we were about 40 feet away and it just came running right at us. WEIRD.

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04-06-2001, 06:11 PM	#2
cleangreenmachine Guest Posts: n/a	I don't think he was suicidal, just disoriented. You see that with lots of animals that run across the street. Mind you, a rabbit is operating with a brain roughly the size of a walnut. They're not too bright! ------------------ Greg 91 LX Convertible

04-06-2001, 06:26 PM	#3
NoSlow5.0 YOU HAVE NO MARBLES!!!!!! Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Jonesboro,Georgia,USA (Providence, Ri) Posts: 868	Thats right. Animal's don't have the higher level of cognitive functioning that is needed to recognize a situation as being so horrible in one or more aspects that taking ones life is a justifiable meens to an end. Excluding humans of course, and possibaly dolphins In other words. The're too stupid to intentionally try and end their life. There natural instinct is survival, and that instinct is so strong that it can't be overriden. While we're on the subject, i have a bad a$$ video of a jack rabbit getting creamed by a Mercedes race car. It is Awsome! Light Em Up!! [This message has been edited by NoSlow5.0 (edited 04-06-2001).]

04-06-2001, 06:32 PM	#4
84_GT350 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 1999 Location: Overland Park, KS, USA Posts: 1,631	I dunno man...I've seen animals do some crazy sh!t. We had this cat once that would saunter around the garage normally until we closed the door...then he'd wait a second and run out right as the door was almost on the ground. Once he even got caught under the door and when I scrambled to let the door back up he seemed pissed at me. He met his demise under the wheels of our old station wagon. He was laying right under the rear wheels. Now..when a car starts most animals run away. Makes you wonder. ------------------ 1984 1/2 GT350 (#842 Hatchback w/ T-tops), 302HO, Comp cams Xtreme Energy cam, Carter 625cfm carb, Weiand Stealth intake, MSD distributor, MSD coil, FMS 9mm wires, 1 5/8" MAC unequal shorties, 2 1/2" MAC Prochamber H-pipe, Flowmaster 2 chambers, KYBs, 16"x8" 4 lug Cobra Rs, Falken 245/45ZR16s

04-06-2001, 06:44 PM	#6
dinomite The Dude Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 1,262	I saw that video! Its crazy, that rabbit just darts across the track directly in front of the car. It almost made it, but the car was movin fast, so it took out the bumper cover and the rabbit was obliterated.

04-06-2001, 06:53 PM	#7
wishstang Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: in northwest ohio Posts: 16	yeah i have that video. i will post it.

04-06-2001, 07:25 PM	#8
wishstang Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: in northwest ohio Posts: 16	here are the videos of that rabbit and other videos of cars flipping. http://forums.roadandtrack.com/ubb/F...ML/000111.html ENJOY!

04-06-2001, 09:14 PM	#9
rbatson Guest Posts: n/a	Supposidely humans are the only animal that will take its own life. Then again, what do use humans know

04-06-2001, 09:31 PM	#10
wishstang Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: in northwest ohio Posts: 16	HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

04-07-2001, 01:17 AM	#11
Capri306 Moderator Join Date: Sep 1998 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Posts: 1,001	That's kinda funny this topic came up. I was going to start one asking if Robins were suicidal. I've smacked at least a dozen because the damn birds must think they're faster than me (had to be eating rice, I guess...). They'd fly in front of me out of nowhere, then TURN and go the same direction I was heading! SMACK! Stupid little bastards, could be the Lake Erie water around here, too. 'Bout as bad as when deer jump out and just stop and stare at you. Are they thinking, "oh, gee, headlights! Cool!!!!!!" or what!?!?!?!?!?! That poor (stupid) widdle wabbit..... ------------------ Capri306, Moderator, The Mustang Works Online 1979 Mercury Capri, 5.0L -- C4 -- 2.73 1987 Mustang LX Notch

04-07-2001, 09:37 AM	#12
wishstang Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: in northwest ohio Posts: 16	i have proof animals are suicidal. i mean how does a dove fly into randy johnsons 100mph fastball and get hit by it? LOL

04-07-2001, 12:46 PM	#13
WHITECOBRAGIRL94 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Mooresville, NC Posts: 105	I ran straight into a bat last week. It was still alive when John took it off my car. I was following him home in the Cobra and the dang bat hit the windshield and slid down behind the wipers and stayed there. Occasionally it would stick a wing up in the air. I don't think animals are suicidal, just some don't know what to think of vehicles and others act like macho animals and stand in the road waiting on ya, like dogs.

04-07-2001, 09:26 PM	#14
HemiBoo Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Columbia,SC, US of A Posts: 37	Those video clips were awsome. Those fiats went soaring through the air. I don't think animals are suicidal, just stupid (Gee George, look at the bright lights...kerpowie)

04-07-2001, 09:59 PM	#15
91LX2Bfast Registered Member Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Warrington, PA Posts: 694	Wanna know whats sick? I am. I just watched that video of the rabbit getting obliterated like 10 times frame by frame untill I realized how sick that was. Ohh well, thats morbid curiosity for you. ------------------ 2001 SVT Lightning (red): Many mods to come- Let the Vette killer begin to take shape 1997 Thunderbird 4.6L: Dynomax exhaust, Mustang intake tube, SVT Lightning 80mm MAF, Accufab MAF adapter, 7" Auto-physics powerstack filter, ram air, B&M 24,000GVW trans cooler, Custom chip, FMS 9mm wires, many more to come... No Longer own: 91 LX 5.0L 5 spd

04-08-2001, 08:53 AM	#16
wishstang Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: in northwest ohio Posts: 16	yeah i did that too. he almost made it but splat. my teacher said that a guy in a nearby city hit a 6 year old girl with his car and didnt even know it till he got home and saw the body stuck to his grille. they literally had to peel her off.

04-09-2001, 11:45 AM	#17
NoSlow5.0 YOU HAVE NO MARBLES!!!!!! Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Jonesboro,Georgia,USA (Providence, Ri) Posts: 868	If you watch the jack rabbit vid closely it looks like the rabbit's skin goes one way and the rest of it goes another. I could watch that all day, it is just too cool. Thanks Mandy, what else am i good for? Light Em Up!!