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 post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
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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
The story is definitely not real.
Responding to the story as if anyone actually believes this is an acceptable thing to do is moral grandstanding. No one is impressed that you think this is a bad thing. Everyone already knows this.
Why wouldnt it be real? Plenty of kids do this kind of "playing" with animals ask people how many pets they had as a kid.
Maybe most people here think its bad but in general people dont see it as a failure of the parent. I can see how you would think its grandstanding and it wasnt my intention. I was just trying to give a sane reply to a cruel post.
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..
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.
I witnessed the other side of that phenomenon. The babies at the mom.
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.
Pretty sure the Hamster would be fine, didn’t Kurzgesagt 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?
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
Hamsters are way heavier, around 150g, unless we're talking pups or dwarf breeds. That's around 6 - 10 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.
Size comparison:
Our hamster died from a 50 cm fall. I don't think they are as durable as mice
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.
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
The US military has been collecting all the munitions grade hamster due to a shortage of depleted uranium.
Mark Rober's squirrel videos also talked about it a lot.
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.
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 they going to learn about cannibalism?
Reminds me when we build the hamster colosseum out of Jenga blocks.