Everything is dark and disturbing and sad

[thistle_chaser]

Seems like everything I've heard today has been really dark and disturbing. It started with the radio. I love love love This American Life. It's a show on NPR where they tell three stories all along the same theme. I listened between doing shopping and lunch, so I missed a few bits of it. The theme of the week was pets

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[gconnor]

I stopped tuning in to This American Life for that reason-- they mix up the fictional stories with the real stories and don't tell you. But that one, why would anyone put that on the air? that's fcuked up

[thistle_chaser]

It's possible they said it was fictional and I missed it because I missed the first few minutes. However, even if they had warned, I would still have been very bothered by this. I do not, DO NOT, need to read in detail what it's like to not even just drown an animal, but to repeatedly do it, bringing the animal closer and closer to death each time.

[fbhjr]

That sounds horrible.
To me, even worse it is fiction. Who thinks of that sort of thing and then says "this should be published"?

[thistle_chaser]

Unless the intent was to disturb people, I have no idea why someone would.

[elo_sf]

thanks for warning, I normally listen to This American Life but will skip this episode

[thistle_chaser]

Good choice. I don't know if the middle story was okay (sounded like it, based on the website blurb), but the two on either end of it were just horrible.

[beauty_forashes]

Oh man, those animal stories sound horrible! I can't listen to stuff like that. Even if it's fictional, I find it too upsetting.

LOL that poor bear, but he really does look freaking scary!

[thistle_chaser]

Same. If I had known going in it was about that, I wouldn't have tuned in.

Isn't that poor bear something else? :D

[beauty_forashes]

Isn't that poor bear something else? :D

Really. I wonder how many calls the cops got from people reporting they'd seen a chupacabra? LOL

[eglantine_br]

It does not matter, ultimately, if it is fiction or not. It is a story about animal torture. I cannot imagine what NPR was thinking!

[thistle_chaser]

Agreed. I've never heard anything like this on NPR before. There have been rare first hand accounts about rape (in prison), but it felt like it was handled a lot better than this.