Attack on FurryCon

[Silver]

Some say to kill furries with fire,
Some say with chlorine gas.
Because of applecat's desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if we had to kill en masse,
I think I know enough of murrs
To say that that chlorine gas
For killing furs
Would not be crass.

These forums are both autistic and intelligent as all fuck. I love it.

 

[John Furrman]

90% sure it'll turn out to be a drama-fur throwing a hissy fit because of some faggoted retarded drama from inside their little subculture. I'm pretty sure that even the most ebin of weens is not quite so ebin as to gas a fur convention. If weens were that ebin, Chris would be getting physically assaulted on a weekly basis.

Same here, I don't think ween and aggressive psychopath are totally mutually inclusive. Furries are notorious for drama, so I think this is just as likely, if not more likely to be the case.

 

[CatParty]

Same here, I don't think ween and aggressive psychopath are totally mutually inclusive. Furries are notorious for drama, so I think this is just as likely, if not more likely to be the case.

makes sense they'd do something like this to themselves

 

[John Furrman]

makes sense they'd do something like this to themselves

I think it makes a perfect lack of sense in typical furry fashion. Another hallmark of furrydom is failing, as @Pikonic pointed out, it sublimated into a noxious asphyxiant, calcium hypoclorite. No one was critically injured. It would have probably been easier for them to make the colorless odorless but horribly burning Hydrogen chloride gas out of bleach and ammonia. So they used a poor chemical choice with a poor method of attack. In those regards, they were lucky the attacker was a dumbass.

 

[DustygreeneNCR]

"Some of the guests, which included about 4,600 FurFest attendees, were temporarily sheltered at a neighboring convention center which was hosting a dog show." - dailydot.com
I don't think it would be good idea to do that...

 

[Morbid Boredom]

I think it makes a perfect lack of sense in typical furry fashion. Another hallmark of furrydom is failing, as @Pikonic pointed out, it sublimated into a noxious asphyxiant, calcium hypoclorite. No one was critically injured. It would have probably been easier for them to make the colorless odorless but horribly burning Hydrogen chloride gas out of bleach and ammonia. So they used a poor chemical choice with a poor method of attack. In those regards, they were lucky the attacker was a dumbass.

When I first heard this, I thought that was what happened.

 

[Ravenor]

I think it makes a perfect lack of sense in typical furry fashion. Another hallmark of furrydom is failing, as @Pikonic pointed out, it sublimated into a noxious asphyxiant, calcium hypoclorite. No one was critically injured. It would have probably been easier for them to make the colorless odorless but horribly burning Hydrogen chloride gas out of bleach and ammonia. So they used a poor chemical choice with a poor method of attack. In those regards, they were lucky the attacker was a dumbass.

They where lucky the attacker was incompetent, however if I am recalling my military history correctly (an I'm possibly not) one of the first chlorine gas attacks in WW1 was essentially just drums of the stuff tossed on a fire up wind of enemy lines.

One bit of military history I am recalling correctly however is this, during the very first gas attack a Canadian squad made gas masks by taking scarfs an pissing on them then wrapping them around there heads. For a while "pass the piss" had two meanings to pass a vickers gunner a can of water or urine to cool down the gun during a battle and also as a slang term for asking a quarter master or dispenser for a replacement mask filter.

Also the vickers gun cooling thing led to the British phrase "taking the piss" as water in the trenches was valuable so often some poor sod was sent round with a empty water can or water bottles an asked other soldiers to take a piss.

/History Sperg.

 

[c-no]

makes sense they'd do something like this to themselves

When you consider Xalver wanting the head of Zaush (both of whom are furries) or Tumbles the Stairsdragon, this could of actually been a furry wanting to either do some prank (that could land him in prison because police see it as a terrorist attack) or get back at anyone at the convention (which could also land him in prison because this sort of thing could kill anyone within the building, be it furries, staff members, or others that were there). If a furry did this and got their own identity shown, the fandom would not want anything to do with guy.

tl;dr if a furry did this, expect outcasting and more drama and possible revenge.

 

[The Joker]

i have a friend who was at the con when it was evacuated. he is really private and was humiliated that he was wearing his parrot fur suit in public.
he said that some of the people on the street were being assholes and taking pics and laughing.

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

tl;dr if a furry did this, expect outcasting and more drama and possible revenge.

If a furry did it, I expect the outcasting and revenge will be minimal since the perpetrator is going to be in federal prison for a few decades; or rather, revenge on the perpetrator will be more or less impossible, and outcasting will be irrelevant because he'll be isolated in federal prison anyway.

I do agree that there's probably gonna be a tsunami of drama coming from furries in the near future.

 

[Ravenor]

i have a friend who was at the con when it was evacuated. he is really private and was humiliated that he was wearing his parrot fur suit in public.
he said that some of the people on the street were being assholes and taking pics and laughing.

Just tell your firend that it's no biggie, any one who is really there friend wont care anyway.

 

[Cute Anime Girl]

The best part is they got wheeled away to the ambulances while still in their fursuits.

Also it's weird how the media is kind of playing this off as a joke. Can you imagine if someone gasses gays or some other group instead?

 

[CatParty]

The best part is they got wheeled away to the ambulances while still in their fursuits.

Also it's weird how the media is kind of playing this off as a joke. Can you imagine if someone gasses gays or some other group instead?

i wouldn't go comparing gays to weirdos in fursuits

 

[Cute Anime Girl]

i wouldn't go comparing gays to weirdos in fursuits

I wasn't. I was just saying this has been pretty low-key news considering it was a gas attack.

 

[HG 400]

One bit of military history I am recalling correctly however is this, during the very first gas attack a Canadian squad made gas masks by taking scarfs an pissing on them then wrapping them around there heads.

If piss-soaked cloth protects against chlorine gas, you'd think the fursuits would have protected everyone.

 

[John Furrman]

i wouldn't go comparing gays to weirdos in fursuits

Not agreeing with either side, but they are both a minority, laypeople barely understand them, mock them, revile them, condemn them, and the lowest common denominator is that they are both people too. I think the similarities stop there, as gay people have caught infinitely more flak over millennia. No furfag has been burned on a stake as far as I know.

Also it's weird how the media is kind of playing this off as a joke.

I am trying to rationalize that reaction. No one was killed, and furries are weird, and most people have never heard of them, so it is understandably bemusing.

 

[CatParty]

Not agreeing with either side, but they are both a minority, laypeople barely understand them, mock them, revile them, condemn them, and the lowest common denominator is that they are both people too. I think the similarities stop there, as gay people have caught infinitely more flak over millennia. No furfag has been burned on a stake as far as I know.


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also furries are not born that way, it is their decision

 

[John Furrman]

also furries are not born that way, it is their decision

Along that same line of thought, people choose to have gay sex, as one chooses to make any action. Just as I consciously sought out a male partner to fool around with. There is no choice if you find the prospect of homosex attractive, or the same sex in general. To me it doesn't make much sense to have the validity of entire lifestyles be contingent on whether or not someone was born a certain way, as a lifestyle is made up of hundreds if not thousands of conscious decisions made throughout a persons whole life. You are only born once, and the decisions you make through out your own life are innumerable.

On the flip side, there are people who make decisions their entire life, or years at least, that conflict with how they feel, a lot of ex-gay people, and those in denial fall in this camp.

 

[HG 400]

gay people have caught infinitely more flak over millennia. No furfag has been burned on a stake as far as I know.

How long have furries been around, though? They couldn't have existed before geocities and myspace, and we haven't been burning homos at the stake since even longer ago than the 80's.

 

[John Furrman]

How long have furries been around, though? They couldn't have existed before geocities and myspace, and we haven't been burning homos at the stake since even longer ago than the 80's.

Usenet brought the fandom together for the first time and they decided on the name "furry". So yes very accurate. Since 1980.