Oh Reddit, your so meta.

Submitted by admin on November 18, 2011 - 9:53pm
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Oh Reddit, your so meta.

"I saved this guy from a life of coal mining for low wages. Also he fell out of a rocket ship destined for mars."

Reddit.com is a self reflective beast at times. I suppose that's why I love it so.

On November 18th, 2011 there appeared to be two posts to the tune of "I found this cat on the highway after somebody threw him out." This set off a fire storm of posts.

The idea is that the first two posts were "karma whoring". They were trying to get up votes for the idea of saving the cat.  Never mind that somebody actually saved a kitten from near death. The idea that "people had the fucking gall to karma whore Reddit" seemed to override it.

One post "...Stopped three lanes of traffic to save this guy..." got a lot of hits and seemed legit. That was shortly after another post "Somebody threw this beauty from a moving car..."

But Reddit is a beast. Several posts came thereafter with comical titles. 

  • "I saved this guy from a life of coal mining for low wages. Also he fell out of a rocket ship destined for mars."
  • "Someone shot this guy out of a cannon over barbed wire and fan blades. Saved the little guy"
  • "I saved this guy from a radical religious sect. They had strapped explosives on him and placed him next to a Federal Building."
  • "Rescued this cat after someone threw him out of a submarine"
  • "Was traveling back in time, saved this little guy from having his legs broken by Hitler :("
  • "Rescued this little guy from a sewer pipe. He was about to be eaten by a piranha plant grown by a bat shit crazy Italian plumber."
  • "Saved these little guys from a vicious death at the hands of [Insert terrible thing here]."
  • "This cute kitten was saved from car driving cannon firing slave trading aliens wearing razor barbed wire. I saved him, but he is still in shock."
  • "Someone tried to drop him into a vat of acid filled with flaming sharks, but I saved the little guy"
  • "Saved this guy from a male prostitution ring out of Russia. Took him awhile to quit smoking, but he is happy now. You can see it in his eyes... "
  • "Saved this little guy from a sex dungeon."
  • "Saved this little guy from a burning building that was scheduled to be hit by a meteor explosion. "

I suppose I find this all very comical because our very own Pfeffernüsse was, in all likely hood, tossed from a car. Dawn found her on Interstate 40 near Canton, NC, She had a busted lip where her face hit the pavement. We couldn't stand the thought of sending her to the pound after that. Even so, I never felt need to post the deed to Reddit. Pfeffernüsse is very dear to us and the karma we get for saving her is in our hearts.

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