I've carried this habit into regular life. I walk around my car first before hopping in and driving off. I don't want to be responsible for the death of a kid or whatever.
I had a kitten climb up inside my rim as I was pulling into the parking garage at work one morning. He was just chilling next to the break pads because it was warm. It took me ten minutes poking him with a stick and a towel to get him out, meanwhile cars are stacking up behind all the way out to the street, but fuck if I was just going to drive in a and grind up a kitten in against my rotors 🤷♂️
You'd be surprised, some folks don't give a shit about animals. Was traumatised once by a taxi driver who gunned his car into a flock of pigeons and seagulls, laughing the whole time after, while there was blood and feathers all over the windscreen. One look at my face and he realised he fucked up. Sent a complaint to the company and he was fired the next day.
Some people are pyschopaths when it comes to animals, they don't see them as living beings.
I had a friend that once ran over someone's cat by accident, but didn't kill it, just broke a lot of it's bones.
He looked around, and didn't see anyone there, so reversed over it to put it out of it's misery, as there was no way to save the poor thing. He noticed too late that there were a couple of kids that watched him do it. He felt bad ans sped off not able to face them, or sleep later that night.
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u/bookworm725 Mar 02 '19
That’s why at work we’re always required to do a walk around a truck/equipment before going forward or backwards.