Still- poor beaver….

Excuse me, sorry, I just vomited a little in my mouth. No we don’t call you treehuggers, we call you blithering imbeciles. If you genuinely hold the insipidly childish, idiotic belief that “every lifeform deserves an equal amount of respect”, please do us all an enormous favor the next time you get an infection, and forgo taking the antibiotics prescribed to you so that you remove yourself from the gene pool as quickly as possible. Intelligent humans everywhere will thank you. You wouldn’t want to kill those poor innocent bacteria now would you.

So speaking from that standpoint- I think I have a rather strong point when I doubt it is me who is missing the appropriate intellect, Blake…

Or a Petaphile, or a Petard.

….? …Perhaps I miss something here…”

Oh you’re missing something all right. a brain. Beavers aren’t humans. Their lives are intrinsically less valuable ours. The fact that you seem to be unaware of this fact and need to be told it makes you either A: a PETA member or B: a moron. But I repeat myself.

And yes, Foreigner1, you are missing the fact that a beaver`s life is not equal to a human`s life.

Wow Ted- I’ll remember that line of reasoning next time I see a human in deadly trouble…! In fact that makes lots of emergency-services quite obsolete and not worth funding…!

….? …Perhaps I miss something here…

(Yes, I’m a city boy and without looking at an actual picture of a beaver, I’m not sure if their tails are naturally flat …)

Speak for yourself Ted. What do you know about Andrew G. For all you know, his life sucks more than some spaced out beaver. Maybe standing in the middle of the road making fun of some stupid glorified rodent would be the highlight of his life.

I thought it was very funny and would like to see more cool stuff making fun of dumb animals.

Still doesn’t change the fact that it’s pretty stupid and dangerous for anybody to be walking through the middle of traffic on a busy highway. That “brave soul” was risking his/her life and the lives of others driving past, to try and save a rodent. As I said, at least the rodent has an excuse – a tiny brain.

I would have felt sad for that beaver, if I saw it had been hit, but beavers aren’t exactly endangered, and they’re not worth risking your life over.

Yes, of course there is. He’s on the middle of a highway, freaked out by the massive number of incredibly quick animals of disproportionate size zooming past him.

@Andrew G: thanks for the info, I was wondering about that (not that you’d dubbed it, that was pretty obvious, but the _actual_ story behind the whole thing. I’m glad someone stopped for the poor thing – and saddened by the fact that no one else did.

If you read the video description, you can see that the original video was taken by a brave soul who saved the beaver from being hit by shooing him off the road and keeping cars away. The voices were dubbed on later, comfortably indoors while the beaver presumably safely knawed on trees somewhere in the woods in his/her own habitat.

Poor little fella. :/

…I’m glad you come up with such a solution after your 1st remark, because my response to that would have been- So what? Is that relatively small beaver even dangerous against you in your fortified position (your car)? Looking at statistics, we humans seldom have the short draw when it comes to who will perish if only because we have more brainpower to overcome the difficulties even of stubborn large aquatic rodents…

Have you ever been bitten by a large aquatic rodent? Beavers are extremely stubborn, and have excellent reflexes, so for your average passer-by to try and get it off the road, would be quite difficult to “shoo” it away, and if they tried to grab it they could very easily end up in the emergency room having their hand reattached.

The best thing they could have done was stopped in front of it, in their car, with the hazard signals on, and blasted their horn at it, that might have convinced it to move, or at least protected from the other traffic, until fish and wildlife could be called, though they might just say “Yeh, so? Run it over, eh.”

Sheer nonsense…