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In reply to the discussion: "Doomsday Preppers" are a form of child abuse [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)35. Yeah, that was a real thing
I don't know how common it was, but I've seen it referred to, in documentaries.
eg
It would be interesting to hear the pest-control explanation and justification for cutting off the tails and ears of foxes as trophies or for smearing the blood of a dead fox onto the face of a child as an initiation ceremony
http://www.league.org.uk/content/323/What-s-Wrong-with-Hunting-More on the practice ofblooding children in fox hunting
When the fox is dead, most hunts cut off the tail (brush), the feet (pads) and the head (mask) as trophies. The carcass is then thrown to the hounds. Some hunts also indulge in the practice of blooding the smearing of fresh fox blood on the faces of those, usually children, who have witnessed their first kill.
http://www.conservativesagainstfoxhunting.com/2011/08/caroline-dinenage-conservative-mp-speaks-out-against-fox-hunting-on-bbc-radio-wales-august-23rd-2011/
http://www.league.org.uk/content/323/What-s-Wrong-with-Hunting-More on the practice ofblooding children in fox hunting
When the fox is dead, most hunts cut off the tail (brush), the feet (pads) and the head (mask) as trophies. The carcass is then thrown to the hounds. Some hunts also indulge in the practice of blooding the smearing of fresh fox blood on the faces of those, usually children, who have witnessed their first kill.
http://www.conservativesagainstfoxhunting.com/2011/08/caroline-dinenage-conservative-mp-speaks-out-against-fox-hunting-on-bbc-radio-wales-august-23rd-2011/
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If the "Omen" movies are to be believed, the English used to bring kids to fox hunts and do the same
2ndAmForComputers
Nov 2012
#24
Do you grant that the kids think it's for real? Although the promo made me wonder,
UTUSN
Nov 2012
#6
No, they are real "preppers", but the producer gets there and say how can we make this entertaining
snooper2
Nov 2012
#12
Many pick over meat in the grocery store like it grows that way seldom, IMO, stopping to
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#52
Um, I grew up on a dairy farm in SW Missouri. We raised steers for beef but we always took
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#59
As said (about 3 times), 15 minutes. So by popular demand we'll downgrade the child abuse
UTUSN
Nov 2012
#10
No offense taken from you, but somehow lots of bodies' impatience gets drawn to my GD threads!1 Haha
UTUSN
Nov 2012
#18
Where would you put it on the abuse scale compared to child beauty pageants?
slackmaster
Nov 2012
#9
the fake attacks are a new addition to doomsday preppers, probably initiated by the producers
Liberal_in_LA
Nov 2012
#25
Natural disasters are one thing. Paranoid "threats" about terrorists, etc. are another.
Tommy_Carcetti
Nov 2012
#40
On this we aqree. There is reasonable prepping and then there is "teh crazy prepping". n/t
RomneyLies
Nov 2012
#41
It sounds like this guy had a bit of paranoia wrapped into his supplies on hand scenario. n/t
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#53
LOL, these people are not worried about a flood or a bad snow storm. You crack me up!
Logical
Dec 2012
#58
Only answering because this thing is back on p. 1. So it's great to know that you survivors
UTUSN
Nov 2012
#45
kids are a captive audience bet they can't wait to turn 18 or get away to college
Sunlei
Nov 2012
#39
The one my wife and watched that disturbed us the most had none of the guns and gory stuff
Turborama
Nov 2012
#43