3. TIL the world's oldest ever flamingo was badly beaten by four teenagers, survive...

TIL the world's oldest ever flamingo was badly beaten by four teenagers, survived, and lived another 5 years to the age of 83.

Serial killers in the making.

One time, years ago, my friend and I were walking to her car back from a bar. I was really drunk and she was the DD that night. I saw some drunk dick kick a little desert cottontail across the parking garage that had wondered in and was just hopping around innocently. Then he and his shitty friends laughed and ran away.

Being really drunk, I picked up the dying rabbit and cried like I was in a cheesy Mexican soap opera. I'm pretty sure I even dramatically yelled, "Nooooo!!!!! Whyyy???" I told my friend we had to take it to the vet by my house immediately. She was freaking out and also saying things like "It's dirty, don't touch your face!"

We got into her car and before she even turned on the engine it died and pissed all over me. And then she told me to set it back outside. It was so stupid - we didn't know what to do with the body, I was a drunken mess, and so we just left it in the parking garage. I regret it and wish we would have buried it in the desert where it was probably trying to get to anyway. It's body probably got run over a million times in that garage. Ugh I hate myself. Poor little guy :(

A car full of people saw me take out the dead rabbit and lay it in the parking garage. So some random people have probably been telling a story about seeing a drunk girl pull a dead rabbit out of a car and gently laying it on the ground for absolutely no discernible reason.

On the street where this occurred there were also giant bronze jackrabbit statues. Every time I walked past it I was haunted by the memory of my little dead rabbit friend. I felt sick walking next to those statues honoring the wildlife in the region knowing some piece of shit brutally murdered one for no reason.

It was so fucked up. Who the hell does something like that? It wasn't even doing anything. It was just minding it's own business and lost in the parking garage. It's not like the guy killed it for food or something - he just kicked it across the garage as hard as he could because he saw it hopping around and thought it would be funny. Some people are just so shitty. It's incomprehensible.

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