It is also possible that the fictional 9yo anon didn’t have a firm grasp on physics, the wisdom not to endanger an animal for their own entertainment, nor the awareness that they didn’t understand how actual parachutes work
(couldn’t be me, at that age I had a drivers license, a stable job and the ability to vote)
Personally I wouldn’t immediately lmao if I learned that my child had killed an animal hours prior, but yeah, I wouldn’t go as far as accusing him of being a psychopath either
You’re skipping the first part of my statement. I can tell you didn’t own an hamster either.
Lets say the hamster successfully parachuted down safely to the ground outside of a 4 story building. Hamsters can run quickly and squeeze into impossibly small places. There is a good chance the hamster, now unattended, would run away and escape. Hamster owners know this.
Here’s a perfect example from a random youtube search. Hamster running away outside. 7 second. Thats how long it took for the unattended hamster to disappear into the underbrush. In this clip the owner was right there and able to recapture the hamster. A 9 year old would not be able to traverse 4 flights of stairs in under 10 seconds.
I did own a hamster, when I was 6 years old.
I also didn’t know shit, because I was 6 years old,
and I don’t know about the challenges of chasing a hamster (which has something to do with yeeting it out of the window, somehow?) because I didn’t yeet a hamster out of the window,
and even if I did I wouldn’t remember it well because I was 6 years old.
What kind of child were you at either of those ages, sheldon_cooper@lemmy.world?
Given that it’s not uncommon for kids to injure themselves jumping from high places using a sheet as a parachute, I don’t think we need to be assuming malice here.
I have firsthand experience. I was a 9 year old (and younger) with hamsters. Yes I was stupid, but it only took one time of taking the hamster outside and setting him in the grass to see him bolt in 2 seconds. I was able to get him back, but that lesson was never lost on me.
When I was 9 I (and my friends) considered having “battles” where we hit each other with sticks to be one of the best ideas we’ve ever had. Our solution when a kid nearly got got hit in the eye with a willow switch … was to ban willow switches.
We also jumped out of trees using a trash bag as a parachute. Luckily we had just enough sense to jump just under the “break a leg” height.
Anon has either never owned a hamster or did own a hamster and is a psychopath that had no issues with animal abuse.
It is also possible that the fictional 9yo anon didn’t have a firm grasp on physics, the wisdom not to endanger an animal for their own entertainment, nor the awareness that they didn’t understand how actual parachutes work
(couldn’t be me, at that age I had a drivers license, a stable job and the ability to vote)
The dad on the other hand…
Only thing the dad did wrong is set a bad example by getting caught laughing. Don’t they say comedy is tragedy sped up?
Personally I wouldn’t immediately lmao if I learned that my child had killed an animal hours prior, but yeah, I wouldn’t go as far as accusing him of being a psychopath either
It’d be highly context sensitive for me. I had a horrific hamster accident as a kid myself, so I might laugh out of pure unprocessed trauma.
You’re skipping the first part of my statement. I can tell you didn’t own an hamster either.
Lets say the hamster successfully parachuted down safely to the ground outside of a 4 story building. Hamsters can run quickly and squeeze into impossibly small places. There is a good chance the hamster, now unattended, would run away and escape. Hamster owners know this.
Here’s a perfect example from a random youtube search. Hamster running away outside. 7 second. Thats how long it took for the unattended hamster to disappear into the underbrush. In this clip the owner was right there and able to recapture the hamster. A 9 year old would not be able to traverse 4 flights of stairs in under 10 seconds.
A 9 year hamster owner knows this too.
I did own a hamster, when I was 6 years old.
I also didn’t know shit, because I was 6 years old,
and I don’t know about the challenges of chasing a hamster (which has something to do with yeeting it out of the window, somehow?) because I didn’t yeet a hamster out of the window,
and even if I did I wouldn’t remember it well because I was 6 years old.
What kind of child were you at either of those ages,
sheldon_cooper@lemmy.world?Given that it’s not uncommon for kids to injure themselves jumping from high places using a sheet as a parachute, I don’t think we need to be assuming malice here.
9 year old hamster owners know that unattended hamster outside run away in seconds.
I don’t think you’ve been around many 9 year olds
Kids are stupid
I have firsthand experience. I was a 9 year old (and younger) with hamsters. Yes I was stupid, but it only took one time of taking the hamster outside and setting him in the grass to see him bolt in 2 seconds. I was able to get him back, but that lesson was never lost on me.
That doesn’t make it a universal truth or general hamster behaviour. We’ve played outside with our hamster plenty of times as kids, it never ran away.
In fact, the only animal that we had run off was the turtle … it was found 3 month later in a garden a couple of houses down the block.
When I was 9 I (and my friends) considered having “battles” where we hit each other with sticks to be one of the best ideas we’ve ever had. Our solution when a kid nearly got got hit in the eye with a willow switch … was to ban willow switches.
We also jumped out of trees using a trash bag as a parachute. Luckily we had just enough sense to jump just under the “break a leg” height.
So, you were stupid until you tried something and learned from it?
You don’t see the parallels here?
Mf that’s a 9 years old