Seat Belt Use on TV

No, please skip the army. We already have far too much trouble from rouge or ill-tempered soldiers wantonly killing non-combatants in foreign conflict zones. It seriously complicates foreign relations, especially when the military trials nearly always acquit those soldiers of murder charges.

In the culture where I grew up, food and sport hunting/fishing were rolled together. Kill only what you will eat, and eat what you kill. Dispatch the animal / fish as humanely and quickly as practical. Waste of game (discarding the meat unused) is prohibited by law, and prosecuted along with the poachers.

Meat does not grow in shrink-wrapped packaging at the local store. That just sub-contracts out and hides the killing and butchering from the view of the consumer. I still fail to see how that changes the ethics or morality of killing animals to eat their meat. Those who pay someone else to do the dirty work out of sight, are equally complicit in the killing.

(BTW, I still eat meat, though much less than when parents fed me. I ceased hunting after moving out of a rural region. But I still go back to help assist in raising domestic meat animals.)

 

Really, I was only digging at paintballers!

 

Fox hunts are the exact opposite of that, and trophy/canned hunts might be a little better in the quickly dispatching area.

 

The equestrian & hound pack fox hunts certainly would not fit into the hunting culture in which I was raised. But we also had no problem with foxes as vermin, nor sufficient population of them to support any form of harvest. If anything, there should have been some effort to improve habitat to help rebuild the wild population.

 

I do not desire foxes or coyotes here. My small dogs would be dinner.

 

Not for a fox.

 

Our larger dogs where not threatened by the local coyotes. Nor did the coyotes threaten our cattle herd, though numerous other cattle owners didn't feel the same.

Don't know just what slowly depleted the outdoor and barn cat population. Coyotes, hawks, owls, disease, age, etc. I did carry one cat back to the house from a nearby field in very deep dusk with an owl circling close overhead.

 

Over here the Government has authorised and sponsored a regional Badger cull because of their carriage of bovine TB strains. I do not approve, but the fairy farming community do!

 

Hopefully, not a Freudian Slip but fairy farmers should have read Dairy Farmers. Must have happened on @Prodigyplace off day.

 

I am not omnipresent.

 

Is that statistically speaking?

 

Sorry, I never got past impotence in my dictionary.

 

Not TV, but my neighbour, who is a former New York City cop never wears his seat belt. I believe he was traumatized assisting in a crash where a friend was trapped inside a car due to a seat belt and died. He usually buckles the belt behind him.

 

Don't you remember? They weren't compulsory, so nobody wore them.

 

Wow.
This thread got yanked out from DEEP in the dumpster!

I'm normally quite critical when my beloved government tries to thwart the beneficial side effects of natural selection.....
HOWEVER (comma!) seatbelt laws do tend to provide for a great tool for law enforcement to pull over scofflaws 'for cause' instead of just making up something about lane use or driving erratically.

Other than that?
meh.
I do not use "As seen on TV" as much of a guide for ANYTHING except as something to avoid in the kitchen gadgets aisle of the local store.

@ fox and coyotes:
I shoot coyotes on sight - when I can.
I live in a city now and the local constabulary would probably not dig it, and the neighborhood Karens and other busybodies would probably not like it much either!
Fox I usually leave be since they are indigenous to my area - and they usually eat varmints or the occasional poultry kept by people who do not know how to raise chickens.

If you live where coyotes roam and you let your little yippy dog out at night you should at least keep it muzzled. Their barking sounds like a dinner bell to Wyle E.
There are also other things that will attack small ankle biters - big horny owls, for example - as at least one person I know found out the hard way.