i killed a centipede today. i think one of the girls in my room had tried to squish it earlier, but they didn't kill it completely. the centipedes here are big, scaly creatures, about 10-12 cm long, and apparently they can give a painful bite. they move really quickly and they are just generally creepy. anyway, this centipede was squished on one end, and kind of squiggling around his other end. i didn't want him in our room any more, so i picked him up on a piece of cardboard and threw him outside. then i thought really hard about if i wanted to kill it. i hate, hate, hate killing animals, even yucky ones, but i didn't like the idea of him being all dead and squished on one end. i don't know if centipedes feel pain, but i decided the best thing to do would be a mercy killing. the tough thing is that i wasn't very confident that it was the right thing to do. anyway, i found a little board and i put it on top of him and i stomped down. afterwards i felt kind of shaky. a little extreme, huh? PETA's got nothin' on me.
i think i'm going to lethem tomorrow, and i'm probably going to georgetown for a few days after that. so don't expect any posts until around monday, mmkay? feel free to post comments, though!
13 years ago
2 comments:
Ew yuck! This story makes me feel all squirmy and weird.
I'm glad I didn't have to kill it.
I hate killing anything too. Even bugs. I think I hate killing them because of their crunchy exoskeletons.
i knew you'd understand. i knew it.
crystal always stomps on the cockroaches that come into our room. i started a rule that if you are going to stomp on something, you at least have to throw its corpse outside. i usually just chase them out. i've had to remove centipedes, spiders, and even a baby snake from our room using a piece of cardboard so they wouldn't get stomped on by crystal.
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