It was, shall we say, totally sick. And not in good way.
University of Maine student Dane Bolding walked to the front of his documentary film class Saturday with a live rabbit in a box.
He threw a tarp over a table, took out a knife and announced that he would now skin the furry little creature alive.
At that point all hell broke loose. Students began screaming, crying and running from the room. A prof shouted, “No, not in this class,” before Bolding stopped.
His point: That most of us eat meat, yet we “try and hide all of our ugliness” about slaying animals.
OK, it’s an old point but, gosh, do you have to kill a live Peter Cottontail to make it?
The story ended happily, however. Some of the women in the class pooled their money and bought the lucky rabbit for $10.
The budding filmmaker should remember this line for future ventures: “No animals were harmed in the making of this film.”
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Who called the press?
Did one of the offended students call, or the instructor? Did Bolding pull the stunt and then call in a reporter to get notoriety?
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I guess the SJ is full of bunny huggers.
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And you can probably get more than a measly ten dollars.
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I'll bet it was a hare raising experience for the bunny. Close call, indeed.
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UoM students aged 18-25 are crying, screaming, and running from the room because someone is butchering a rabbit for a documentary film? What kind of spineless sychophants are our young men and women today? Jeez.
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Do you mean sycophant, which is defined as an obsequious flatterer? Who were they trying to flatter?
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Voisine, does your computer have spell-check? You might want to turn it on.
For every Liberty U., there are 100 UM's. You libs are way ahead in the indoctrination wars.
You libs are also way ahead in shooting your mouths off with no information. I have a BA in computer science and 40+ years in the private sector. That is, I studied something with potential and then put it to productive use, which is a lot more than we'll ever see from our bunny skinner.
Confucius say: Always engage brain before putting mouth in gear.
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I know, i'm sorry, ol' Voisine's spelling sucks, early in the thread, i typed the word "buthering" i wike Elmer Fudd, i can't pronounce my r's, my l's or my c's. hehehehe
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Congratulations......
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Frost,
I'd be willing to guess that you weren't any kind of "major" at all. Right?
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You got a hare across your arse?
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Why yes i've had one there before, hehehehe. Ol' Voisine's Michael Moore DVD was busted and was in need of a special feeling, hehehehe. Turns out i'm ticklish, then the hare scratched ol' Voisine, so i went and got a new Michael Moore DVD.
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LMAO...good one, MO4
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Frost,
I'd be willing to guess that you weren't any kind of "major" at all. Right?
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Frost,
I'm sure you'd approve of the far right wing indoctrination that goes on at places like Liberty University. The difference is that far right dogma is anti-logic, placing reality into an unrecognizable form simply in service to dogma. The Natzis did the same thing.
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After 4 years of comsimp indoctrination, it's impossible to be a "right wing Republican creep". I do agree, though, that he's a dimwit because he has to resort to look-at-me-aren't-I-important displays to get any attention.
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Ben, when you invoke "liberal" in association with this, you demonstrate that for right wingnuts, there isn't any actual "thought" devoted to anything. If you have an argument to make, then make it. You don't so you merely invoke a word as a catch all for your own intellectual failings. It's why you are likely a Republican.
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Well JAckwagon I referred to the hysterical young ladies in the class as "Liberal PETA loving vegetarians" But as always your brain filtered out all the useful information, leaving you as always with the nonsensical ramblings of a lonely sad old man with no life!! I unlike you comment on this blog, I unlike you don't get on here to ARGUE with my fellow comment posters!!! I feel sorry for you, may you one day find joy and hope in your miserable little insignificant life!!!! You are in my prayers!!! GOOD day SIR!!!
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You're right on there Ben, Ol' Voisine is a jackwagon, nothing more, nothing less. Can you take me over to mamby-pamby land to find me some self-confidence? But you're wrong on one point, Voisine's brain can't filter out the useful information because i don't have one. hehehe. Thank you for feeling sorry for Ol' Voisine, but my life is miserable and insignificant and always will be.
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Ben.. I was trying to come up with the words to resepond to both of his rodomontades, but you did it so well, that I'll just re-read yours a couple more times and enjoy. Good post, man.
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There is a sharp differentiation between the organized reality of buthering and self-absorbed butchery in service to some adolescent point that isn't really much of a point at all. How many people who eat mean don't know the animal was butchered? What's the point in this stupid display? There wasn't one. This is equivalent to some NRA buffoon stabbing someone in a "display" to "prove" that guns don't kill people, people kill people. This "student" is too dim for college. I'd bet this dimwit is a right wing Republican creep. Hopefully he'll grow out of it but if not, then perhaps he'll run for Governor of Maine someday. Low brow pointlessness, LePage would be proud!
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So if his project topic was how to cook and eat a Maine Lobster YA or NAY would that have been ok!!! Take a living creature and droping them into a pot of rapidly boiling water, then carefully removing the meat from the shell it's pretty tricky and would have been informative!! Would that have upset all the Liberal PETA loving vegetarians sensibilities!
I would like to take a group of vegetarians out into the woods with a weeks worth of water and only a days worth of granola and see how many days it would take before they are begging for some of my tasty rabbit, I bet by day three or four they are helping set snares to catch more!!!
The Peta chicks that freaked out and disrupted his presentation should be punished!!! I am sure everyone else was allowed to give their presentations without interruptions and outbursts!! And the professor with the sensitive stomach better not fail him.
"Time and place dude" Well this sounds to me like the time and place for what Bolding was going to do. Documentary film class, many documentary films are intended to horrify, educate, shock and awaken the audience. I have seen a lot of documentary's about where our food comes from every thing from inside the slaughter house to agricultural practices so I think this guy was not out of line or acting in anyway inappropriate. And lastly Rabbit is darn tasty seriously wummy!!!
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ya gotta kill it to grill it
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is this all you got?
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