But it was a minute in real time!Cthulhudrew said:You had me terribly frightened for a minute there.
Alzrius said:These stories always depress the hell out of me. Why do they always go and kill the lion several hours after the fact? That's just pointlessly vengeful, particularly since they have no way of knowing if it was the same one. In this case, they killed two, which means that at least one poor mountain lion was shot just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.![]()
HeavenShallBurn said:I know, it's fine for the prey-item to fight back nothing wrong with that. But really, there are about 7 billion people in the world and maybe ten or twenty thousand wild cougars. So I figure until the cat's body count hits at least 300,000 it's a favorable rate of exchange.
When the CTU staff learns that Jack’s daughter Kim has been kidnapped you have them all cheering. I don’t think they would do that. They would merely smile knowingly to each other.
Alzrius said:These stories always depress the hell out of me. Why do they always go and kill the lion several hours after the fact? That's just pointlessly vengeful, particularly since they have no way of knowing if it was the same one. In this case, they killed two, which means that at least one poor mountain lion was shot just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.![]()
Cthulhudrew said:Hopefully DNA testing will be able to make sure no cougars are wrongly executed.
(Snarkiness aside, I agree. It's kind of sad. The rationale, of course, is that once they've learned to kill, the animals will do it again, but it still seems like they could do a better job of making sure that they have the right one.)