r45 4 Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I just saw a news item on tv about some ducks in Ueno - someone apparently has stuck a 5cm pin-like thing into some ducks head. The duck doesn't seem to mind right now but I just cannot understand how anyone could possibly do something like that. I'm sure if I saw them doing it I'd confront them and get really worked up and do something stupid. What do you reckon you'd do if you saw something like that happening. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 Definitely confront them and probably let all ****ing hell go on them! That's just sick. Link to post Share on other sites
Shan3007 0 Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 OMG - that is so wrong, did they say that there was any point to it, or someone just being a sicko... I would of just gone off Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 It looks like somebody has got themselves a blowpipe. I guess when you have a blowpipe, you need something to shoot at. Probably some Australians down from Nissikoe. Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 Defo stop them. They should learn how far birds need to fly to come to and leave Japan. When I think of it, I don't think someone can do anything like that. Distance birds need to fly to move (one way). swallows - 3,000kms ducks - 3,000kms Arctic Tern - 16,000kms Arctic Terns move between north pole and south pole, so that they can get enough sunchine in summer to breed at both location.(June-July at north pole, January-February in south pole ) I don't think I can walk all the way that far. I wonder why they just cant keep their eyes on them not doing that. I feel it sad people are getting thinking of small creatures less and less . Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 Gams you've done it again! Where do you come up with this stuff?? Classic! Link to post Share on other sites
7-11 2 Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 I would confront the idiots and be tempted to give them some of their mindless violence back. Link to post Share on other sites
taguchi 0 Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 I saw that last night it makes me so angry to see it. I can't understand some people. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Tempted to get a blowpipe myself now that the 'duck news' has gone into some detail about just how cool they are, and how available they are in Japan. A suitable poison seems to be an essential element if you want to kill something with a dart though ... as the predicament of those poor ducks indicates. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 I missed that but it sounds really sad. How big blowpipes were these things? Link to post Share on other sites
snobee 0 Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 O-11 - I think the Oz natives from Niseko would be more inclined to use a boomerang than blowpipe. And in the event of a shortage of bent branches, probably resort to the next most useful and abundant thing at hand. The famous "brown neck" also known as a spent beer bottle. Link to post Share on other sites
boardbaka 3 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 wonder what Tony Soprano would do if he caught the aussie lads ddoing that to his ducks! Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I think he'd have a panic attack and would be pretty useless! Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 rach, there you go. That looks like a bit of a big one to me. You can see the appeal. Although if you're going to hunt, you should really kill and eat your prey. Do NOT inhale dart! No indeed. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I want one too O11!! Maybe I could attack some cabbage chefs! Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 That would learn them. Bidding starts at 2,000 yen... Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Good reading about yadoya japanese traditional culture on this page. Very durable,easy to judge the points. Pulls wire ring to four directions by gum rings,wire ring is floating over the sponge backstop.When dart hit the ring it woggles and dart dosen't rebound. (Like when it hits ducks head.) Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Sports blowgun health method Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 "Do not inhale dart" Good job they put that there hey? Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Thanks for the pic Ocean. So someone blowgunned a duck? Nasty. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 This media attention is surely not in the best interests of ducks or other small, defenseless creatures. Just as the news has stimulated interest in blowguns on this site, it has surely done so elsewhere. Even if the people who consequently buy blowguns do so for shooting at targets, sooner or later their eye is bound to wander to the noisy crow on the neighbour's roof. And as darts generally require curare or some other poison to kill, there are going to be more rather than less birds getting about with darts in them. Also, in the grand sweep of worldwide misery (or even Japanese misery), a duck with a dart in its head is really scarcely worthy of comment, and certainly not worthy of nightly bulletins for a whole week (considering the suffering of the poultry that we might be forking into our mouths even as we watch the plight of the darted duck...) Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 remember that duck that got cross-bowed a few years back? Pierced its chest if I remember rightly, but the tough little bugger kept on waddling around with this big bastard of a bolt in its flesh! That one made similar news too. Link to post Share on other sites
yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2 Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 I saw that last night, poor little thing. You're right about the publicity Ocean. Some sick bastards will go out and try to do this now. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 > remember that duck that got cross-bowed a few years back? Yes, I remember that. And a cat with a bolt through its head. I seem to remember both animals were rescued and given expensive operations. People seem to forget that we regularly eat ducks and run over cats in our cars. A little bit of perspective is required... Link to post Share on other sites
minus 1 Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 I agree, but still.... using a duck for target practice like this seems somehow more cruel than those things you mention don't you think. Link to post Share on other sites
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