People pay big bucks for that kind of ride.

I near wet myself laughing the first time I saw that squirrelapult a few months back.

I just saw it and thought 'shit, the poor little sod'. How terrifying for the squirrel, with no clue of what was happening, it's little heart must have been beating so fucking fast. Not to mention if it hit something hard at that speed, it may well break bones. Either way, would be a terrifying experience for the animal and possibly a painful one too.

I don't think the squirrel has done anything to deserve a terrifying, violent death. How can anyone find humor in that?

We've just finished lecturing against the horrors of dog-fighting, yet somehow a squirrel doesn't deserve the same compassion (that we should extend to all living creatures)? Okay, maybe not cockroaches. But there's something sick about designing, constructing, and filming an elaborate killing machine, solely for amusement.

They don't die, think of it as a squirrel enema.

Do they get hurt? Do any of them bruise/fracture/break or gash their limbs? Are they confused and afraid (and potentially in a state of shock) as they are suddenly and unexpectedly flung into the air at speed?

Did the person who set that trap have any way of knowing the answers for sure? If not he took a hell of a risk with that animals well-being.

if it hurt, why would it keep on going back and riding it again and again?

the part where the guy stands out in the yard with a tennis racket and volleys the squirrels back onto the deck might make you cringe a little, though.

I have to admit I didn't watch the whole thing. I got as far as watching a wild animal flung bodily into the air at an alarming velocity and turned it off.

oh, that last part only happened in my sick little mind.

bitch

[the emperor] your hatred makes you strrrooooong[/the emperor]

lol funny fucker

Anyone who has seriously fed birds for any length of time is going to laugh at the squirrelapult. I don't know that the device hurts them, and I don't know that it doesn't, but I've seen the furry little bastard tree rats fall 20' from a resistant feeder, and climb back up to try it again 30 seconds later.

Fairly typical of humans that we would deem one creature worthy of feeding (despite the fact it is wild) and would deem another a criminal for trying to access the food we have chosen to put out. It's an animal, it's job is to find food, procreate and feed it's young. We put food into its environment (squirrel isn't seeing that as your feeder, it's just there in its patch) and then get angry when it tries to get to the food and 'steal' it.

Do you have Funniest Home Videos over there Dana? and do you laugh at them?