The Internet still rocks
March 3rd, 2008 at 02:12 pm in Awesome, InternetUpdate 1: As much as I loath linking to a Fox News story, they’re thankfully reporting that the Marines are not only aware of the video, but are investigating. In years past, reaching this step alone would have taken days, if not weeks, of organized letter and phone protests. Now? The Internet plows it’s way to justice in a mere 24 hours. Rock on.
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While drinking my daily dose of one barrel of coffee this morning, I was perusing digg for some interesting reading material when I came across a link that read “US Soldier throws puppy off cliff (video).” I clicked it thinking it would be some humorous play on words or satirical video and…oh, oh…no. It’s a clip of some scumbag, named David Motari, launching a puppy off a cliff.
I’m not even going to link to the video from here, just trust me that you don’t want to see it. I sure wish I hadn’t. However, the video’s not why the Internet still rocks. What I love about this global mess of nothingness we’ve created is how everybody has reacted to said indefensible video! Within 12 hours, people on digg have found the guy’s myspace page, his wife’s page, their home phone number & address, his bebo page, copies of his marriage license, and more. They’ve started letter campaigns to his Senator and Representative, have secured copies of the video and stashed them all across the web for proof, (since he is now franctically trying to take it down), and contacted just about anybody with a higher rank than his.
It would suck if the video was instead some horribly twisted joke with computer animation and whatnot. But let this be a lesson – if you piss off nerds on the Internet, they not only won’t care if the infractions were legitimate or not, but they’ll make your life a bitch and a half. Vigilante justice for the win!
Waynus
I saw that video today on there too, and I think it’s fake. The pup goes out of the screen right before he tosses it, and the way they were both so nonchalant about it.
Waynus
Oh yeah, the internet does rock.
Goob http://www.shyzer.com
After watching it again a few more times, I’m a bit inclined to agree with you Waynus. The sound of the puppy is a bit too loud and doesn’t fade away as the puppy flies off screen and if you notice, the dog doesn’t really try and correct itself (ie, get it’s feet down and head up) like most animals do when falling.
Still, to post it on the Internet and NOT expect a backlash was pretty fucking retarded.
fake
Obviously, you guys have never seen a puppy in your lives.
Puppies go limp when held by the scruff of the neck. That’s how their mother carries them around.
That puppy isn’t *falling*, it was thrown, a hard spin. A full grown cat would not have been able to recover from that, much less a puppy of a few months.
Puppies are *loud* when they are scared, hungry, or in pain. And this one was probably all three. And yes, the sound lessens as the puppy nears the ground.
I guess you ‘FAKE’ guys can hide your head in the sand all you like, but that puppy wasn’t dead, wasn’t fake, wasn’t switched out out of frame.
Just a victim a couple bored psychopaths. Your tax dollars at work.
Goob http://www.shyzer.com
Oh man, Waynus, look at us. Fake just taught us how puppies act when carried by their scruff. What does that have to do with this video? I don’t know, but we’re idiots for not having thought of it first! And the full grown cat part, man, why didn’t we think about that?
Fake, what the hell are you smoking? We very clearly said this was a horrible video, fake or otherwise. Unless you have proof that shows it’s a legit video, as in you were there OR the psychopaths in this video admit to this hideous act, then shut the hell up.
Congratulations, you’ve just failed the Internet.
Jessica
How would you know if any animal, full grown cat or month old puppy, wouldn’t be able to recover from that? Been throwing your pets off of high surfaces lately, bitch?
Jessica’s Conscience
EDIT BY GOOB: For the record, the Jessica that has posted in the comments here on Shyzer IS NOT David Motari’s wife. She is a friend of mine who has been commenting on Shyzer for years now, as a simple search of Shyzer will show dozens of comments by her. I’ve struck out the comment below to reflect this and won’t let any further comments clear moderation unless they take this simple, yet important, fact into consideration.
You can’t change the laws of physics. What is “recover” from that? Recover as in “a puppy magically misses the ground”?
You can however change your last name (again) Jessica since the guy you married 2 months ago is a disgrace.Waynus
I’m glad you cleared that up Goob, I was confused.
Fake, We were not diminishing the fact that the video, if real, is terribly cruel and unnecessary. We are just trying to say that it could easily be faked.
Jessica
Haha, that’s pretty awesome. Who the hell is David Motari? Thank you Goob for clearing up… whatever happened. Waynus, you know I’m with you there. No one wants to see that ever, especially not me. But you just have to take a closer look at the details and then judge.
Rob
If you carefully look at the video you can watch the angle of his arm movement. Now this grown man is throwing a 10 pound puppy, and with the way it is thrown the puppy would spin end over end. The puppy in no way could control control his body, espcially being up against a grown man. I have seen a person being hit by a car in real life and the man flipped in the air and had no control of his body. He did not move his arms or legs….thus he was up against a car 20 times his own weight. The man was not knocked out. When he landed he crashed on top of his back and his arms were not trying to soften his landing. After the accident the man jumped up and tried to run off, but people around him made him sit down until an ambulance arrived. So seeing this and being around puppies, there was not much the puppy could do but scream for help.