Seen wonderful karma at work today

Mine is similar to yours. Moron towing a clapped out trailer pulls out suddenly in front of me. I notice that the trailer is so poorly loaded that one side is nearly touching the tyre. Moron tootles away quite quickly and hits a very deep pothole that all we locals know about. Axle on moron's trailer breaks. Moron pulls over. I overtake with a suppressed grin.

They carry disease. Thats why they are maligned.

What the hell is wrong with people? We share our planet with all these wonderful creatures who do us no harm and yet there are people who exploit them, neglect them or are actively cruel to them. That horrible woman who has been dropped from the Olympics for whipping her horse springs to mind.

I don't mind kids chasing pigeons. The pigeons look like they enjoy it to me.

A big benevolent smile from the universe.
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Edited, because I’m a pedant, to add: at least that’s the karma I wish on OP. Karama sounds sweet, like caramel, mmm. So, if OP’s got a sweet tooth, I wish her plenty of that too.

I had similar. My regular school run involved a big busy roundabout at the top of a motorway, to get to school you come off, down a bit of dual carriageway then onto single and into the town. At the bit between this exit and the similar bit to get back on this roundabout, there was a police speed trap there one morning. No bother to me, went about my business and did my drop off. Straight after i have some arseholes tailgating me and as soon as i reached the dual bit heading back to the roundabout, they shot past, honking and revving. I passed them stopped by the police 10 seconds later.... Now a kinder person might have tried to warn them about the speed trap just up the hill but it seems that I'm not that kind.

A one or two year old toddling after pigeons saying nice birdy with finger outstretched and wanting to pet (or course the pigeons won’t let them) is ok I think, a child 4 and up chasing and trying to kick is cruel and nasty

Some people have children that will chase pigeons regardless of their instruction not to. Often those parents are thoroughly ground down by their own children’s poor behaviour and the absolute last thing they need is strangers shouting at them publicly.

I think that there is a difference between seeing a parent trying their utmost to manage and correct their children’s behaviour and seeing children with a parent who doesn’t seem to notice or care. In the first instance, I think most strangers will be strongly on the parent’s side and offer sympathy and solidarity. In the latter case, strangers may intervene with the children or parents more directly.

This is lovely.......you're a crow protector. They'll start to worship you............

Saw a group feeding horses with apples and mints, right next to them was a sign on a fence saying please don’t feed these horses, they are on a special diet. I did intervene, and after being told to fuck off I told them if they did not stop i would take a picture of them and send it to the owner so he could sue them when his/her horses died of colic.

Well done, OP. It takes courage.

They should be kept at home until they learn not to be cruel to animals.

I think you are missing the point here. If you decide not to take your children somewhere it should surely be because they can't be trusted not to terrorise birds, not because you don't like feeling judged. Whatever happened to consequences?

I am so heartened to know that I am not the only person who steps in when they see this.

I saw two boys of around 11 on their own in a big park chasing swans and geese with sticks and then throwing them. I asked one where his parents were and he looked at me without the slightest hint of concern and said "Why?"🙄

When I found his dad (about 100ft away with zero ability to see the boys), I was expecting someone who didn't care. I was amazed when he turned to the boys and said "That's disgusting. You total idiots - why on earth would you do such a thing. I'm so disappointed in you both."

Like this....

"Gentle arsehole parenting" bring up savages! Such hope for the future....not!

Thanks for this I haven't laughed so much in ages, I love the salt & vinegar disco bit lol 😆

I've got a pair of loved up pigeons that have been coming into the garden for over a year. I'm quite fond of them now.

I hate seeing horrible, shouty kids chasing them in town while their parents are too busy staring at their phones to pay attention. 😕

I wonder what your Karama will be for posting this. Please let us know.

Sweet creatures but sex obsessed … male pigeons stalk and pester females continuously. Feel sorry for female pigeons 🤷🏼‍♀️🤨

Bird egg hunting is, imho, slightly different to abusing animals and Tom renting them

egg hunting is done by bat shit crazed collectors who know a lot about birds, too much sometimes, and would never run around chasing them as they know it’ll give their game away. They are criminals. Impacting bird populations. But not in same kettle of fish that allow their kids to stress out birds by chasing them. They’re probably last ones to harm a live and hatched bird as that’s their future source of eggs.

closer to those care less parents are the many cases of gamekeepers who lay poison and traps to kill birds of prey. Criminals agian. But still happening in huge numbers. Their mindset is probably more like the parents who don’t give a shit for birds being stressed or harmed.

minor point,

I can't claim to be entirely altruistic. The university I work at has a bit of a seagull problem, to the extent that we've got signs up warning about them nicking food out of your hand. I thought having my own personal army of crows might act as a deterrent! Thus far it has not.

We did have a bit of a ropey moment a few weeks in where I gave them a salt and vinegar Disco. I think they thought I'd poisoned them, and they were very wary of me for the next week!

A man in my village zooms round on his electric scooter and doesn't pay much attention to the road or pedestrians.

Yesterday as we were walking back from school he was scooting down the main road whilst on his phone. He then tried to take his other hand off the scooter to reply to a message and wobbled so much he nearly fell off!!

Witnessed by lots of parents and children and we all laughed out loud!

It’s awful and ultimately teaches the children that it’s okay to be a bully

That's so lovely, crows definitely recognise people & will remember kindness, they're incredibly intelligent birds, thank you for being so kind to them,.

I love pigeons

Last year one had a plastic bag caught on its leg on the station platform - it let me pick it up and unravel it off

Didn't even fly away for a couple of minutes when I put it on the ground gently afterwards

Sweet creatures 🥰

People are cunts