ReAL CAtz oN Da CaR?!?! - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Quickurt · 07-05-2008, 01:34 PM

Burg

I was laughing so hard the dog is in here whining at me!!
For some reason the cat hauled ass..........

Frodo · 07-05-2008, 02:25 PM

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"I was laughing so hard the dog is in here whining at me!!"

I beg to differ.

THAT video is NOT funny in the least.

My only hope that it was contrived and not authentic. In all honesty, I really cannot tell for sure.

It's trash like that that makes me question, if only briefly, the wisdom of unfettered freedom of speech.

Quickurt · 07-05-2008, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Frodo

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"I was laughing so hard the dog is in here whining at me!!"

I beg to differ.

THAT video is NOT funny in the least.

My only hope that it was contrived and not authentic. In all honesty, I really cannot tell for sure.

It's trash like that that makes me question, if only briefly, the wisdom of unfettered freedom of speech.

You can't be serious!
There's no way a sunroof could move fast enough to catch a cat.
But it was funny as hell to all of us non cat-lovers.

Frodo · 07-05-2008, 06:57 PM

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"You can't be serious!"

Posted by Quickurt.

I already conceded that the vid could well be contrived, but admitted that I wasn't positive one way or the other.

The sunroof was only open slightly wider than the size of the cat's head. (Cats have been known to insert their heads into tight spaces if they're curious about what might be inside. They are inquisitive animals.) The roof would only have to close a centimeter or two to create an opening slightly smaller than the cat's skull. Skulls being solid bone and not flexible/compressible tissue, once that happens, there's no escaping.

And the way that cat reacted, then slid off the car (doing a flip over the side view mirror), that looked like a dead cat. (Of course, it could have been road kill, or come from some other source.)

The strongest piece of evidence against the vid being real is the fact that vertebrae, skin, fur, trachea and the other miscellaneous soft tissue making up the neck of an animal is not exactly easy to transect.

I really do HOPE the video was in fact the creation of someone with a lot of time on their hands. I really don't have anything against people who don't like cats (to each his own), as long as they don't intentionally swerve their cars to run them over, or toss unwanted kittens from a moving vehicle, or commit any of the other sadistic atrocities I have personally witnessed in my time.

LoveBunny · 07-05-2008, 08:12 PM

I'm pretty certain that is a professionally made commercial, therefore not some real video of a cat being decapitated.

Frodo · 07-05-2008, 08:52 PM

Yeah, Bun, I think you're right. (I didn't pay much attention to the source, other than "youtube.com".)

Accepting that as being the case, I can't imagine an ad like that would sell a lot of cars. Half the world are 'cat people' (give or take), after all. It's just kinda poor taste in my book.

However, I'll officially stand down on this one.

rick3000 · 07-05-2008, 09:07 PM

I'm certain it's fake. If you have ever tried to approach a cat, their sharp, and I doubt you could close a sunroof on it. Even if you had a modified sunroof that seemed to operate faster than any other sunroof in existence. A real cat would have no problem getting getting away in time.
Who was activating the top, I saw no person in the car? And why did they have a camera setup, turned on, and perfectly framed around the car at the exact time the cat arrived?