to feel depressed when I hear of 12 yr old boys pulling a dead bird's wings off and scooting over it?

[pointydog]

Am I over-sensitive? Is that just what many 12 yr olds would do?

Tell me to get over it if you want.

I did once scot a hamster but it was an accident.

Hang on. I'm off to scoot really fast down to the park and accidentally on purpose crash into those boys. I'll put my long black coat on

Can we all come? (excited)

Although I now feel a little guilty for starting this thread.

When I was 8 (goes in my favour already) I lived on a housing estate that was half built and for some reason there was a boom in caterpillar births near the bridge over the flyover. My friends and I would go along on our scooters and scoot over all the living caterpillars. I'm not proud. I was stupid.

YUk.
i once stood on a sllug

is awful isn't it Frivol

we are overrun with slugs

when I tread on them barefoot, I change my name to FootInSlug

do you?
lolol
very good

for you

it's that slime coming in between your toes that gets me

There was a bloke on Desert Island Discs a while ago who said he was always dissecting road kill of various kinds as a boy and grew up to be responsible for some incredibly important medical advance.

Of course, the story would be a bit better if I could remember his name or what he'd discovered . But it was true.

So these 12 year olds could be like him.

Or they could be fledgling serial killers.
In which case Kirsty Young would be unlikely to invite them to share their tastes, musical and otherwise, with the nation.

one of them flapping a seagull wing (yes, apparently a seagull, there have been updates round the tea table) in the faces of passers-by and another boy just flapping his arms pleasding for an anti-bacterial wipe.

I don't think they were advnacing science.

I did question whether it was perhaps a white dove as a dead seagull is prety huge

When I was a kid a bunch of us found a stiff dead cat on the pavement that had obviously been hit by a car and crawled to the side of the road to die.

We had fun with it for hours

lmao mental image of 12 year old boy begging for an anti-bac wipe!!
I always used to have a full service burial for any dead animal/insect found. Bumble bees and frogs would all get their own little grave and headstone marking the date. I sound a bit weird now... in my defence I was very young!

I did bury my gerbils. But I hated them.