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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Only thing the dad did wrong is set a bad example by getting caught laughing. Don't they say comedy is tragedy sped up?

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[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago

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.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

or with distance. like slipping in the mud, that's a tragedy. now tripping someone and seeing them slip in the mud, that's comedy gold.

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Exactly. It's very human to find mirth in any misfortune that we have no emotional connection to.

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[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Nope, straight to jail

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

This is how they get the voter fraud statistics.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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?

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

I did own a hamster, when I was 6 years old.

I didn't get my first hamster until I was 8. Anon apparently has one at 9.

I also didn’t know shit, because I was 6 years old,

Sure, but we're talking about a kid 50% older than 6 years old. There's a lot of cognitive growth between those 3 years. I don't think you'd say you were as stupid at 9 as you were at 6 are you?

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?)

I don't know why I have to walk you through this, but okay: If anon at 9 assumed that the hamster would safely parachute down to the ground 4 stories down, then the moment that hamster was unguarded, it would bolt. A 9 year old that has ever taken their hamster outside knows this. A 9 year old typically doesn't want to lose their pet. So this was why I said that anon never had a hamster (as in this post is fake).

and even if I did I wouldn’t remember it well because I was 6 years old.

You don't remember anything from when you were 9 years old (as Anon was)? Are you saying if you had a pet at 9 you have no memory of it today? That...wouldn't be normal.

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[–] Djehngo@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[+] partial_accumen@lemmy.world -6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

9 year old hamster owners know that unattended hamster outside run away in seconds.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 10 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

I don't think you've been around many 9 year olds

Kids are stupid

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago*

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.

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[–] remon@ani.social 4 points 3 months ago*

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.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 3 months ago

So, you were stupid until you tried something and learned from it?

You don't see the parallels here?