Submitted 3 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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At first i wondered how shitty the parachute must’ve been, but then I remembered that I had dwarf hamsters as a kid, not normal ones.
Also for some reason my mom made the mistake of getting a boy and a girl and they did exactly what you’d think. Except that the cage was too small for that many critters and the momma started eating the babies out of stress…
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Oh! The hamster mom. Not your mom.
Ok, that’s a bit less horrifying.
We had one pet rat then my mom let me get another one of the opposite sex. Anyways we had really bad rat infestation before we sold that house.
I had that parachute action man, and I remember chucking him down a flight of stairs. Shitty, shitty parachute. The doll itself was surprisingly well made (I guess it was drop tested a lot during production?) but weighed a ton and the parachute was hilariously too small for it
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Dont worry she didnt eat all of them! I think we had like 3 or 4 generations of inbred hamsters before we finally got a second cage and segregated them.
… as an adult i am staunchly against any “pet” that has to be kept in a cage or enclosure.
I witnessed the other side of that phenomenon. The babies at the mom.
Yeah rodents have interesting behavior like that. They have absolutely no qualms eating a friend or their own offspring if they need the resources.
I once had two mice. The next morning, I still had two mice, but one of them was missing its head.
This happened when my brother and I got mice. He got a mouse, I decided I wanted a mouse. We forgot to check the gender…
Huge parenting failure. Getting a kid an animal without teaching them the respect needed. I was so careful with my pets as a kid because I respected them as living creatures and I understood how big and scary a human can be.
This is the most fediverse response I could have expected.
Hey everyone, this person is super moral.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having strong morality. I think it’s perfectly acceptable discourse.
You had to go and make things weird.
Yeah wow imagine thinking dropping an animal to its death is parenting failure. I’m crazy
Some parents suck, fact of life. No point arguing with it.
Kids shouldn’t have rodents as pets.
And I had one as a kid…
Rats are great kid pets. But as any pet should be primarily be taken care off by adults, not the kids themselves
How else are we going to teach the kids responsibility?
We caught the mouse on our attic, by luring them into a moveable plastic bath tub. Then we apparently overfed them, so most of them ended up dieing because they got stuck in the toys, which mainly was cardboard rolls from paper towel
Anon has either never owned a hamster or did own a hamster and is a psychopath that had no issues with animal abuse.
It is also possible that the fictional 9yo anon didn’t have a firm grasp on physics, the wisdom not to endanger an animal for their own entertainment, nor the awareness that they didn’t understand how actual parachutes work
(couldn’t be me, at that age I had a drivers license, a stable job and the ability to vote)
The dad on the other hand…
Only thing the dad did wrong is set a bad example by getting caught laughing. Don’t they say comedy is tragedy sped up?
Nope, straight to jail
This is how they get the voter fraud statistics.
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.
Mf that’s a 9 years old
9 year old hamster owners know that unattended hamster outside run away in seconds.
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.
9 year old hamster owners know that unattended hamster outside run away in seconds.
It was a 9yrs old dude…
9 year old hamster owners know that unattended hamster outside run away.
There is a ride called drop zone at the local theme park. When I was a kid, we’d win prizes in the arcade next to it, and often I’d get a parachute man and put him on my knee and watch him fall like 10 stories. No hamsters were murdered in my childhood parachute man antics though…
This comment section is a trip.
Reminds me when we build the hamster colosseum out of Jenga blocks.
MapleFawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Pretty sure the Hamster would be fine, didn’t Kirsten’s have a video on this kinda stuff where they tossed a mouse of a skyscraper but due to the mass and size of the mouse it doesn’t reach a speed in which it dies on impact?
jrs100000@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can drop a mouse down a mineshaft and it can survive the landing, but a skyscraper has cross winds, which could easily get it moving laterally too fast to survive. A hamster is considerably larger than a mouse though, and just because a mouse could survive doesnt mean a hamster would.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Hamsters are way heavier, around 200g, unless we’re talking pups or dwarf breeds. That’s around 8 - 12 times the weight of a mouse.
And they are a more compact shape with stubby legs and tails, which I imagine has negative implications for terminal velocity.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Size comparison:
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speakupattheback@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s only one way to settle this
Johanno@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Our hamster died from a 50 cm fall. I don’t think they are as durable as mice
wopalopa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i had a hamster when i was a kid it was put inside a glass aquarium. my lil bro took it to our granma house couple blocks away. idk how but he lost his grip and fell to the ground. the tank glass shattered and the hamster died on the spot. im sure its not a height thing and more of a shock and stress thing
SillyDude@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The US military has been collecting all the munitions grade hamster due to a shortage of depleted uranium.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Hamsters will die from looking at them wrong. I also know three childhood friends who had hamsters that died from it just walking off the bed
They are very fragile
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
From what I’ve seen on the internet hamsters need to be on a 24/7 suicide watch, even without retard kids throwing them from buildings.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Mark Rober’s squirrel videos also talked about it a lot.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
A wise man once said: