Despicable cruelty by people who should know better

[Wapiti]

On a trip into town to get some supplies, I had to stop yet again to finish off an animal struck but some low-IQ moron who's hit it and not stopped.

Thia wallaroo had a broken spine, one eye popped out, and way lying in a pool of congealed blood. When I walked up to it, it was desperately trying to crawl away from me, looking at me with it's one working eye, shaking uncontrollably in pain and fear.
I don't know why this one was different and set me off such that it did, but I've just had it up to here with the kind of uncaring trash that I share this district with.
I have to kill animals all the time, but i do so with the respect that other lifeforms deserve, that is not to suffer.

I had to do my best to kill it with one hit on the head with a heavy baseball bat I always carry in the ute. I learnt a long time ago that there is never a good stick that won't break up to do the job properly and humanely. In fact all our vehicles have one in them, even my wife which even on Friday evening coming out, had to finish off another hit animal left by the low-IQ germs that have moved into this area.
We have moved to using the "Cold Steel" poly baseball bats we got from a large gunshop in Redcliffe. You cannot break them and they hit with a massive dead-blow. At least once a fortnight I have to stop for an animal and it's beyond help. there isn't help out here anyway, I have to take the responsibility myself.

This is becoming a normal event. Particularly with two wives from farms out here who work in town. They have large 200 and 300 series Cruiser wagons with the huge "Tuff" bars and siderails and just will not slow down, let alone stop. These birdbrains are a fu*ken menace and if you meet them on a crest and you are not way left, you will have a head-on with a canary-brain in a massive debt-trap accident. They openly complain that they have to struggle to buy groceries yet they are desperate to buy these POS status symbols they cannot take responsibility for.
These morons will not stop and leave injured wildlife littering the roads. It's just not intelligent behaviour.
And it's not just the women. The intravenous beer users openly boast how many skips they bounce off the front of their V8 utes with the penis extending chips under the bonnet.

While I'm at it, is how many echidnas they hit and kill. These animals amble along so slowly, and anyone with the slightest amount of brain matter should be able to see them. How dumb and stupid are these people.

My opinion of the kind of uncaring, self-obsessed people we have to share this world with is plummeting.

The presstitutes and polittitutes come down on firearms easily enough, but its obvious that too many people shouldn't be allowed to drive 3-ton vehicles if they can't take responsibility for the suffering they leave behind. Oh, but look the other way and blame what they call minorities...

[Die Judicii]

The more people I meet,, the more I like and trust dogs.

[Wapiti]

I agree.
I thought this topic might be a bit confronting for many folks.
Even when the roles are reversed, plenty will still not understand.
Buf I guess, people today will rather pull out their phones (think of Bondi) rather than do anything. Carry on like it's some Hollywood rubbish on the flat screen.

[bladeracer]

We're on a quarry truck road, so lots of roos and wombats get hit. I can understand why the trucks don't stop when they're carrying 40 ton (I'm guessing) of gravel at 100kph, if they do try they're going to pull up hundreds of meters down the road anyway, and likely cause an accident for the next truck that comes around the corner. But it is annoying having to knock off the injured ones.

[Die Judicii]

Not too long ago i was heading out to go to a property for a nights vigil hunting a dog. Late afternoon and the day had been HOT. Less than five minutes drive out of town i spotted a large roo lying in a culvert. I did a u turn and went back and discovered that it had been hit by a vehicle and had a smashed spine. Although i had my rifle,, i wasn’t game to get it and euthanise the poor thing due to the fact it was on the edge of the New England Highway with bumper to bumper traffic at the time, ( I didn’t want to risk being dobbed in by any of the passerbys and end up being arrested and losing my f/arm’s license). So i rang the cops and explained the situation, and that most likely it had been lying there injured since early morning in the glaring sun and heat. For whatever reasons (known only by the cops) they were an hour and a half before they actually arrived at the scene. The poor roo took its last breath and expired twenty minutes before they got there. Throughout that entire day there would have been in excess of a thousand vehicles drive past,,, and very late in the afternoon I was the only one to try and do something to get it euthanised. No other reports had been made.

[Wapiti]

That's terrible mate. Imagine on a daily basis how much of that goes on.
The usual driver is in a trance and probably would not have been as aware of everything as you are, and probably never seen tge animal suffering.
For me to only go into town once a week and have to put animals out of their misery that've been hit by someone else as often as I do, God knows how long they've suffered. I just can't drive on.
One of my mates who's a copper tells me there's two big reasons they drag the chain responding to calls like yours - they are very concerned they are seen stuffing up the job in the publics eyes and starting more "useless cop" rumours, and the paperwork and potentially, dressing down by seniors for discharging their sidearm when they are not in danger.
Don't shoot the messenger... it's what I was told.

I had so many disturbing moments putting down struck animals that I actually bought items to do the job in the minimum amount of stress for both the animals and myself. I can say I'm over it, but that won't stop me from doing the right thing. Always carry a baseball to give the dogs a run of course.

The way people rag gun owners for crims and lunatics behaviour is how I look at these people in their boxes of destruction. If anyone hits an animal in their vehicle and doesn't make sure it's not suffering, I would apply the same logic to their drivers licence.

[Die Judicii]

I think its still law, that you are required to stop “and do the right thing”.

[bigrich]

i got a story for ya, was talking to a fellow urban hunter like myself , who was on a trip out bush and came across a late model SUV pulled over in the middle of nowhere . got out to see what the problem was , and they'd hit a roo. SUV was drivable , but the roo was smashed badly , couldn't move and was in obvious pain . old mate thought these city types might've freaked out over it being put down with a rifle , so he was going to give the roo mercy with a hammer from his tools . city types went phyco on him calling him sick and sadistic, while they were trying to get reception to call the rspca or whoever to save this animal . he just turned around , got back in his cruiser ,and drove off . some people's reality of the real world is pretty strange. wonder how they reacted when the vet or cops did turn up and euthanised it ?

[Finniss]

I find it odd that a lot of people can't stomach putting an injured animal down. but can stomach driving off leaving it to suffer until it dies. Possibly days later.

[bigrich]

I find it odd that a lot of people can't stomach putting an injured animal down. but can stomach driving off leaving it to suffer until it dies. Possibly days later.

no emotional responsibility. it's easier to ignore, than deal to with it . driving off says "not my problem" . the modern world hey .

[Die Judicii]

i got a story for ya, was talking to a fellow urban hunter like myself , who was on a trip out bush and came across a late model SUV pulled over in the middle of nowhere . got out to see what the problem was , and they'd hit a roo. SUV was drivable , but the roo was smashed badly , couldn't move and was in obvious pain . old mate thought these city types might've freaked out over it being put down with a rifle , so he was going to give the roo mercy with a hammer from his tools . city types went phyco on him calling him sick and sadistic, while they were trying to get reception to call the rspca or whoever to save this animal . he just turned around , got back in his cruiser ,and drove off . some people's reality of the real world is pretty strange. wonder how they reacted when the vet or cops did turn up and euthanised it ?

Hey Rich, at the risk of being told that I'm just trying to go one better than you,,, Here's one almost identical that happened to me 16 years ago, that turned out to be absolutely hilarious.

I was in the process of moving house, and on a fairly remote section of road, when I came across one of those hire "Brits Vans" pulled over on the side.
And in the middle of the road was a huge old Red Roo buck with both legs smashed.
It was snarling and grunting and crawling around in circles.
The occupants of the van turned out to be an old retired couple of Germans who'd only arrived in Australia the day before, and up till then had never even seen a roo.
I got out and was cursing my luck,, because I had one of my firearms safes (complete with rifles) in the trailer,,, but no ammo at all because that was in the last load I'd already completed.

The only thing I had that I could use was one of a pair of Ex Army Tank Ratchet tie downs with a huge U shackle in one end.
I opened it up full length and swung as hard as I could to the back of the roos head.
Job done, I turned around to see poor old Frauline Grandma standing there in shock with the mouth wide open.
She could not speak a word of English at all, and hubby had very limited English.

I motioned to him to help me drag the roo off into the grass,, which he did, and after I checked to see if the van was driveable,, I said farewell, and as I drove off,, the old fella said "Danka,,Vee did not know vot to do."

As I continued on I had thoughts about the poor old lady having nightmares about Brutal Aussies and dangerous wildlife,,, or worse still,,, contacting the authorities to dob me in for cruelty to animals.
I never heard anything more about it though.

[bigrich]

i got a story for ya, was talking to a fellow urban hunter like myself , who was on a trip out bush and came across a late model SUV pulled over in the middle of nowhere . got out to see what the problem was , and they'd hit a roo. SUV was drivable , but the roo was smashed badly , couldn't move and was in obvious pain . old mate thought these city types might've freaked out over it being put down with a rifle , so he was going to give the roo mercy with a hammer from his tools . city types went phyco on him calling him sick and sadistic, while they were trying to get reception to call the rspca or whoever to save this animal . he just turned around , got back in his cruiser ,and drove off . some people's reality of the real world is pretty strange. wonder how they reacted when the vet or cops did turn up and euthanised it ?

Hey Rich, at the risk of being told that I'm just trying to go one better than you,,, Here's one almost identical that happened to me 16 years ago, that turned out to be absolutely hilarious.

I was in the process of moving house, and on a fairly remote section of road, when I came across one of those hire "Brits Vans" pulled over on the side.
And in the middle of the road was a huge old Red Roo buck with both legs smashed.
It was snarling and grunting and crawling around in circles.
The occupants of the van turned out to be an old retired couple of Germans who'd only arrived in Australia the day before, and up till then had never even seen a roo.
I got out and was cursing my luck,, because I had one of my firearms safes (complete with rifles) in the trailer,,, but no ammo at all because that was in the last load I'd already completed.

The only thing I had that I could use was one of a pair of Ex Army Tank Ratchet tie downs with a huge U shackle in one end.
I opened it up full length and swung as hard as I could to the back of the roos head.
Job done, I turned around to see poor old Frauline Grandma standing there in shock with the mouth wide open.
She could not speak a word of English at all, and hubby had very limited English.

I motioned to him to help me drag the roo off into the grass,, which he did, and after I checked to see if the van was driveable,, I said farewell, and as I drove off,, the old fella said "Danka,,Vee did not know vot to do."

As I continued on I had thoughts about the poor old lady having nightmares about Brutal Aussies and dangerous wildlife,,, or worse still,,, contacting the authorities to dob me in for cruelty to animals.
I never heard anything more about it though.

good tale mate . very common part of everyday life out in the regions i expect . the german couple to me, also represent the reality gap between people from the city to the bush. i reckon , if questioned, the german couple probably said "i know naasink , i know NAAASINK! "

couldn't help myself

[Wapiti]

I suppose one of the big reasons I get so angry about what I see is from the conversations I've heard at out community events. All you have to do is drop a starter about "man, there's heaps of skips around ATM, hit a big one the other day and when I chased it up to finish it off it still tried to have a go at me"
Then I'll get the giggles and laughter of the mongo brains and the comebacks about driving through a mob of them and laughing how they roll around all busted up as they drive away. Stuff like that. Conversations like that have been the wedge that's completely driven me away from some people.
The day I see them stuck in their vehicle wrapped around a tree, I'll remind them about it.

[bigrich]

I suppose one of the big reasons I get so angry about what I see is from the conversations I've heard at out community events. All you have to do is drop a starter about "man, there's heaps of skips around ATM, hit a big one the other day and when I chased it up to finish it off it still tried to have a go at me"
Then I'll get the giggles and laughter of the mongo brains and the comebacks about driving through a mob of them and laughing how they roll around all busted up as they drive away. Stuff like that. Conversations like that have been the wedge that's completely driven me away from some people.
The day I see them stuck in their vehicle wrapped around a tree, I'll remind them about it.

i've heard similar from people , it doesn't impress me

[markg]

Having to dispatch injured animals is a common thing on country roads .Sadly lots just don't seem to care to do the right thing after an animal strike.