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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Idk,

Shouting “Hey, don’t do that” loud and clear may be more effective.

  • kid may have thought they where alone and will get jumped from getting caught.

  • May alert the parents their kid is up to mischief.

  • Doesn’t potentially start an escalation war with neighbors

  • Doesn’t carry the small risk of the child falling or otherwise getting hurt with you as an easy blame.

Think of it like this: Does the kid now understand the “evil” of their actions to try be better next time. Or will they feel vindicated by their parents support against your “evil”

You're probably in the right here, but at least they'll know what it's like to be assaulted with water.

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[–] follica@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Throwing water at each other, the way people used to throw eggs...

Don't worry. Water prices will start going up too.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's a difference between justice and revenge

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[–] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

plot twist: kids a radical ecologist, keep ya cat indoors.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I agree with the "don't be shitty to animals" sentiment, but I'm honestly a little surprised no one else has bothered to consider how shitty that cat might be. If it was always shitting in your yard, picking fights your cat or dog, using your bird feeder as a cat feeder, and tearing up your flower beds, then a cup of water is a pretty benign deterrent that still has a chance of being effective.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

If they're caught in the act, sure. A great cat training tool is a spray bottle of water. But from the story it sounds like the cat wasn't doing anything at the time, so even if it is a nuisance animal, no correlation is made with an act and a punishment. Not true on the kid, he got something right when he did his malicious action, so if he has any intelligence he might connect the two and not do it again.

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