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NORFOLK, VA—In a new campaign featuring several graphic images of the animals falling from 30,000 feet in the sky, People For Ethical Treatment Of Animals released an ad Thursday that seemed to imply that throwing horses out of planes was a common practice. “How do you think he feels about your in-flight entertainment?” said the ad, which heavily suggested that the ritual of hurling horses from commercial airlines and watching them fall to the ground and die occurred fairly regularly, if not daily. “Hey, Chris Pratt, would you do this to your dog? What if Seabiscuit pushed you out of a plane? It’s not just humans who deserve parachutes. When it comes to throwing horses out of airplanes, just say ‘neigh.’” At press time, PETA released a follow-up ad implying that horses being thrown from planes was also making humans obese and impotent.


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[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

C-130 rollin down the strip,
64 ponies on a one way trip,
Mission clop secret, destination unknown,
Don’t even know if they’re ever prancin home.

Stand up, hook up, trot to the door,
Jump right out at the count of four,
If my main don’t open wide,
It’s likely because a horse was not designed for the parachute and this resulted in a disaster.

Mission Clop secret broke me haha

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please tell me you didn't use chatgpt for this.

[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I actually wrote this from memory and replaced some of the words with a horse theme. …but now I want to see what ChatGPT can make for a motivational airborne horse cadence.

[–] matchphoenix@feddit.uk 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“When it comes to throwing horses out of airplanes, just say ‘neigh.’”

PETA could never

[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While I understand that it is a statistical rarity for horses to die from being thrown from a plane, it does happen on occasion. I'm currently dealing with my insurance provider trying to get my payment after my car was totalled by a flying Clydesdale last week

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Dibs on Flying Clydesdale for my band name

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Damn are the writers strikes hitting the Onion as well?

[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Parachutes for the Emergency Transit of Animals

[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I’m really bothered that, I’m not sure if the onion is making it up, or if they are making fun of PETA for the ad that PETA was crazy enough to actually run

Or is it the point that satire is so truly dead that I’m thinking that it could be a real ad…

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Bill Gates seeds the clouds with horses to control the weather

[–] kubica@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I only checked the title now, I thought the image was picturing peta as the plane, it made more sense.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Big whiff. If you're going to make fun of an activist organization at least make it a good joke.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's PETA, those dipshits claimed that milk causes autism.

They're also the organization that steals pets from people's yard and puts them in PETA's all kill shelter.

[–] aeternum@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah, that's a stretch. It was two employees going rogue. And they were fired immediately.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It's happened more than once.

In 2007, a PETA worker in Virginia was arrested and charged with a felony count of theft after she was found to be in possession of a sheriff's hunting dog. The charge was eventually reduced to a misdemeanor and dismissed entirely in 2008:

I also can't actually find any evidence that the employees who took the girl's dog were fired at all. I'd imagine that it happened after PETA lost the lawsuit, but again, I can't find it.